Sciences may be learned by rote, but wisdom not.

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers, and he bears a laden breast, Full of sad experience, moving toward the stillness of his rest.

It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.

Of the demonstrably wise there are but two; those who commit suicide, and those who keep their reasoning faculties atrophied with drink.

The well-bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.

To be free is not necessarily to be wise. Wisdom comes with counsel, with the frank and free conference of untrammeled men united in the common interest.

Who is wise? One who learns from all.

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

Raphael paints wisdom, Handel sings it, Phidias carves it, Shakespeare writes it, Wren builds it, Columbus sails it, Luther preaches it, Washington arms it, Watt mechanizes it.

Wisdom is to the soul what health is to the body.