Common sense, in an uncommon degree, is what the world calls wisdom.

Go where he will, the wise man is at home.

It is a great folly to wish to be wise all alone.

He whose mind is not troubled in sorrow and has no desire in pleasure, his passion, fear, and anger departed, he is called a steady-minded sage.

There is no purifier in this world equal to wisdom.

The wise are always impatient, for he that increases knowledge increases impatience of folly.

Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.

There often seems to be a playfulness to wise people, as if either their equanimity has as its source this playfulness or the playfulness flows from the equanimity; and they can persuade other people who are in a state of agitation to calm down and manage a smile.

The only Zen you find on the top of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.

Not to know certain things is a great part of wisdom.