“The price of Liberty is eternal vigilance and the price of wisdom is eternal thought”

“What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?”

“Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech.”

“Pessimism is only the name that men of weak nerves give to wisdom”

“Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained.”

“To know and love another human being is the root of all wisdom”

“Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.”

“If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise.”

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

“Learn the wisdom of compromise, for it is better to bend a little than to break”