Wisdom has its excesses, and has no less need of moderation than does folly.
And wisdom in life is perhaps to ask for anything, why?
It is not wisdom but Authority that makes a law.
Both in thought and in feeling, even though time be real, to realise the unimportance of time is the gate of wisdom.
Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.
One's first step in wisdom is to question everything: and one's last is to come to terms with everything.
Passion makes a man live; wisdom only makes him last!
If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid with regard to external things.
The investigation of the meaning of words is the beginning of education.
Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.
Psychology, as I understand it, is not only a piece of knowledge but a certain wisdom of life.
Reason, not age, finds wisdom.
By pondering, wisdom is learned.
Wisdom is that apprehension of heavenly things to which the spirit rises through love.
A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.
Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.
Learn as if you will never catch up, as though you are afraid of losing whatever you have already understood.
Our greatest stupidities may be very wise.
I only wish that wisdom were the kind of thing that flowed ... from the vessel that was full to the one that was empty.
Montaigne’s wisdom: to love life in spite of everything.
He that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom.
A scholar must be strong and resolute, for his burden is heavy, and his journey is long.
If we are too wise, we may be equally to blame.
To wisdom belongs the intellectual apprehension of things eternal; to knowledge, the rational apprehension of things temporal.
I prefer the folly of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.
The novelist teaches the reader to comprehend the world as a question. There is wisdom and tolerance in that attitude. In a world built on sacrosanct certainties the novel is dead.
Irony is the gaiety of reflection and the joy of wisdom.
The stupidity of people comes from having an answer for everything. The wisdom of the novel comes from having a question for everything.
We don't receive wisdom we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.
It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.
