There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.

Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live.

Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another.

Swim upstream. Go the other way. Ignore the conventional wisdom.

Many sophisticated, intelligent people lack wisdom and common sense.

“YOUR TRUE POWER AND TRUE WISDOM IS MASTERY OVER YOURSELF.”

“It is only inspiration that can bring wisdom to an uneducated or empty head.”

A philosopher is a lover of wisdom, not of knowledge, which for all its great uses ultimately suffers from the crippling effect of ephemerality. All knowledge is transient linked to the world around it and subject to change as the world changes, whereas wisdom, true wisdom is eternal immutable. To be philosophical one must love wisdom for its own sake, accept its permanent validity and yet its perpetual irrelevance. It is the fate of the wise to understand the process of history and yet never to shape it.

Those who possess wisdom cannot just ladle it out to every wantwit and jackanapes who comes along and asks for it. A person must be prepared to receive wisdom, or else it will do him more harm than good. Moreover, a lout thrashing about in the clear waters of wisdom will dirty those waters for everyone else.

 Where is the wise man? Where is the scribe? Where is the debater of this system of things? Has not God made the wisdom of the world foolish?  For since, in the wisdom of God, the world did not get to know God through its wisdom, God was pleased through the foolishness of what is preached to save those believing. ~ 1Corinthians 1:20,21