Wisdom

It is not always by plugging away at a difficulty and sticking to it that one overcomes it; often it is by working on the one next to it. Some things and some people have to be approached obliquely, at an angle.

Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time.

No man was ever wise by chance.

True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

Experience is only half of experience.

Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom.

The highest reward for a person’s toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.

The true wisdom is to always be seasonable, and to change with a good grace in changing circumstances.

The beginning of wisdom is the definition of the terms.

Patience is the companion of wisdom.

An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.

In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn, than to contemplate.

Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others?

Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding.

As long as you live, keep learning how to live.

I don’t preach patience to you, but cynicism; it is the most comforting of philosophies. You will get over your present difficulties only to run into something worse, and so on until the last sad scene. Make up your mind to it—and then make the best of it. That is, do the best you can within the limits of your chance. If you can’t write a book a year, then write one every two years .

It isn't right to judge strength as better than good wisdom.

Whoever thinks that he alone has speech, or possesses speech or mind above others, when unfolded such men are seen to be empty.

A wise doctor does not mutter incantations over a sore that needs the knife.

Not all things are to be discovered, many are better concealed.

The gods plant reason in mankind, of all good gifts the highest.

Wise thinkers prevail everywhere.

A soul that is kind and intends justice discovers more than any sophist.

You should not consider a man's age but his acts.