History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.
I have known it for a long time but I have only just experienced it. Now I know it not only with my intellect, but with my eyes, with my heart, with my stomach.
If I don't have wisdom, I can teach you only ignorance.
If wisdom were on sale in the open market, the stupid would not even ask the price.
If you wish to know the road up the mountain, ask the man who goes back and forth on it.
In much wisdom is much grief; and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.
In seeking wisdom thou art wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it, thou art a fool.
It is characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.
It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.
It is more easy to be wise for others than for ourselves.
It is not from reason that justice springs, but goodness is born of wisdom.
It is not wise to be wiser than necessary.
It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.
It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.
It may serve as a comfort to us, in all our calamities and afflictions, that he that loses anything and gets wisdom by it is a gainer by the loss.
It seems to me that, in every culture, I come across a chapter headed ''Wisdom.'' And then I know exactly what is going to follow: ''Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.''
It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and say the opposite.
It's the height of folly to want to be the only wise one.
Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.
Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh, and the greatness which does not bow before children.
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