It requires wisdom to understand wisdom; the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.

The growth of wisdom may be gauged exactly by the diminution of ill-temper.

The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.

Not by constraint or severity shall you have access to true wisdom, but by abandonment, and childlike mirth-fulness. If you would know aught, be gay before it.

Wisdom is ofttimes nearer when we stoop Than when we soar.

Wisdom is knowledge which has become a part of one's being.

Wisdom is the quality that keeps you from getting into situations where you need it.

The day the child realizes that all adults are imperfect, he becomes an adolescent; the day he forgives them, he becomes an adult; the day he forgives himself, he becomes wise.

Be happy. It's one way of being wise.

One's first step in wisdom is to question everything and one's last is to come to terms with everything.