Patience is the companion of wisdom.
Human wisdom consists in a knowledge of the order in which it is profitable to know things;
It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.
Silence is often the truest wisdom.
The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another.
Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.
The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.
All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.
Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.
Wisdom is harmony.
Background photo by Ian Keefe on Unsplash
Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom.
To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.
There is no justice in putting strength on a level above wisdom.
A free man thinks of nothing less than of death, and his wisdom is a meditation, not on death, but on life.
It is not wise to be wiser than is necessary.
I was allowed free run of the library and I stormed human wisdom.
There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.
Of all our possessions, wisdom alone is imortal.
Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.
This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.
Wisdom leads us back to childhood.
Wisdom is the daughter of experience.
People grow old indeed, but who grows wise?
Background photo by Jennifer Latuperisa-Andresen on Unsplash
Wisdom has its excesses, and has no less need of moderation than does folly.
A loving heart is the truest wisdom.
And wisdom in life is perhaps to ask for anything, why?
Both in thought and in feeling, even though time be real, to realise the unimportance of time is the gate of wisdom.
Wisdom comes not from reason but from love.
Background photo by Ian Keefe on Unsplash
