Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.

We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already.

To acquire knowledge, one must study but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.

Great wisdom is generous petty wisdom is contentious.

Children also have artistic ability, and there is wisdom in there having it! The more helpless they are, the more instructive are the examples they furnish us and they must be preserved free of corruption from an early age.

Every speaker has a mouth An arrangement rather neat. Sometimes it's filled with wisdom. Sometimes it's filled with feet.

They whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed.

I believe we have become paralyzed, paralyzed by our desire to be loved. Now our founding fathers had the wisdom to know that social acceptance and popularity were fleeing, and that this country's principles needed to be rooted in strengths greater than the passions and the emotions of the times.

There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives.

Pain makes man think. Thought makes man wise. Wisdom makes life endurable.