“Life is a festival only to the wise.”
“Wisdom is learning what to overlook.”
“A nation's treasure is its scholars.”
“Some folks are wise and some otherwise.”
“The price of wisdom is eternal thought.”
“The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.”
“Wisdom is nothing more than healed pain.”
“To be wise and love exceeds man's might.”
“Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.”
“Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.”
“It is not wise to be wiser than necessary.”
“Some men are wise, and some are otherwise.”
“Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.”
“Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.”
“To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.”
“Time ripens all things; no man is born wise.”
“A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult.”
“Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.”
“The wise man avoids evil by anticipating it.”
“Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.”
“Let us be poised, and wise, and our own, today.”
“Everything I know I learned after I was thirty.”
“It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.”
“Wisdom alone is the science of others sciences.”
“So wise so young, they say, do never live long.”
“Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.”
“The wise person has long ears and a short tongue.”
“The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.”
“The only one who is wiser than anyone is everyone.”
“The greatest wisdom is to realize one's lack of it”