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Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain.

The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.

Education makes us more stupid than the brutes. A thousand voices call to us on every hand, but our ears are stopped with wisdom.

Wisdom is found only in truth.

This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.

Surely, God on high has not refused to give us enough wisdom to find ways to bring us an improvement in relations between the two great nations on earth.

Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.

There's a beauty to wisdom and experience that cannot be faked. It's impossible to be mature without having lived.

Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.

Remembering is painful, it's difficult, but it can be inspiring and it can give wisdom.

Courage is always the surest wisdom.

I acknowledge the privilege of being alive in a human body at this moment, endowed with senses, memories, emotions, thoughts, and the space of mind in its wisdom aspect.

Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun.

Our wisdom comes from our experience, and our experience comes from our foolishness.

We are to seek wisdom and understanding only in the length of days.

All human wisdom works and has worries and grief as reward.

I continue to believe, contrary to the given wisdom, that it's more interesting to have an album - or, indeed, an individual song - which has variety rather than homogeneity.

However, I must not indulge in homespun wisdom here before so distinguished an assembly, especially as I am to be followed by a representative of science.

You can practice to attain knowledge, but you can't practice to attain wisdom.

Without wisdom, the future has no meaning, no valuable purpose.