Wisdom has its root in goodness, and not goodness its root in wisdom.

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

Wisdom is an affair of values, and of value judgments. It is intelligent conduct of human affairs.

Wisdom consists not so much in knowing what to do in the ultimate as in knowing what to do next.

It requires wisdom to understand wisdom; the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.

Wisdom is knowledge which has become a part of one's being.

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 day the child realizes that all adults are imperfect, he becomes an adolescent; the day he forgives them, he becomes an adult; the day he forgives himself, he becomes wise.

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

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