Wisdom had rather be buffeted than not listened to.

Youth is the time to study wisdom; old age is the time to practice it.

The first step in wisdom, as well as in morality, is to open the windows of the ego as wide as possible.

To be wise and love Exceeds man's might: that dwells with gods above.

One rabbi compared wise men studying the law to children tossing a ball to one another: a first sage said the meaning was this, another said the meaning was that, one gave his opinion, another begged to differ.

How terrible is wisdom when it brings no profit to the man that's wise!

Sciences may be learned by rote, but wisdom not.

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers, and he bears a laden breast, Full of sad experience, moving toward the stillness of his rest.

It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.

Of the demonstrably wise there are but two; those who commit suicide, and those who keep their reasoning faculties atrophied with drink.