Post #3195

My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then say it with the utmost levity.
—George Bernard Shaw

Post #3144

The wise man alone is free, and every fool is a slave.
—Stoic Maxim

Post #3118

Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.
—Titus Maccius Plautus

Post #3105

It is not hoary hairs that bring wisdom; some have an old head on young shoulders.
—Menander

Post #3039

The wisest man may always learn something from the humblest peasant.
—J. Petit-Senn

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Post #2855

A man cannot learn to be wise any more than he can learn to be handsome.
—H. W. Shaw

Post #2854

He gains wisdom in a happy way, who gains it by another's experience.
—Plautus

Post #2853

The wisest man is generally he who thinks himself the least so.
―Nicolas Boileau Despreaux

Post #2852

In youth and beauty wisdom is but rare!
—Homer

Post #2503

How prone to doubt, how cautious are the wise!
—Homer

Post #2436

As for me, all I know is that I know nothing.
—Socrates

Post #2435

Wisdom is more precious than rubies; nothing you could want is equal to it. 
—Proverbs 3:15

Post #2342

Whoever is wise is apt to suspect and be diffident of himself, and upon that account is willing to "hearken unto counsel" ; whereas the foolish man, being in proportion to his folly full of himself, and swallowed up in conceit, will seldom take any counsel but his own, and for that very reason,
because it is his own.
—John Balguy

Post #2113

The fool who knows his foolishness is wise so far, at least; but a fool who thinks himself wise, he is called a fool indeed.
—Dhammapada

Post #2065

You can never be wise unless you love reading.
—Samuel Johnson

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Post #2003

Wisdom prepares for the worst, but folly leaves the worst for the day when it comes.

—Rev. Richard Cecil

Post #1934

Wisdom alone is the true and unalloyed coin for which we ought to exchange all things, for this and with this everything is bought and sold—fortitude, temperance, and justice; in a word, true virtue subsists with wisdom.
—Plato

Post #1834

By wisdom wealth is won; but riches purchased wisdom yet for none.
— Bayard Taylor

Post #1812

Wisdom makes a slow defence against trouble, though at last a sure one.

—Oliver Goldsmith

Post #1752

If you wish to know how much preferable wisdom is to gold, then observe: if you change gold you get silver for it, but your gold is gone; but if you exchange one sort of wisdom for another, you obtain fresh knowledge, and at the same time keep what you possessed before.

—Talmud

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