Be wiser than other people if you can, but do not tell them so.

The pine stays green in winter...Wisdom in hardship.

In Greece wise men speak and fools decide.

What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes?

The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work.

He was a wise man who originated the idea of God.

The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.

Call him wise whose actions, words, and steps are all a clear because to a clear why.

Wisdom comes by disillusionment.

In seeking wisdom thou art wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it - thou art a fool.

The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living, which are to be desired when dying.

When I can look life in the eyes, grown calm and very coldly wise, life will have given me the truth, and taken in exchange - my youth.

Wisdom is ofttimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar.