I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue speak and they are but hairs as in the young.

Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life - in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk and to make our words and actions all of a color.

In order to have wisdom we must have ignorance.

We give advice but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it.

We don't receive wisdom we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.

But what is liberty without wisdom and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils for it is folly vice and madness without tuition or restraint.

Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people to discourage them from ambitious attempts and generally console them in their mediocrity.

Kisses are a better fate than wisdom.

Cunning... is but the low mimic of wisdom.