Quotes about Wisdom

God give me patience to reconcile with what I am not able to change. Give me strength to change what I can. And give me wisdom to distinguish one from another.

When near his death, being asked by the tribune for the watchword, he said, Go to the rising sun, for I am setting.

The best revenge is to be unlike your enemy.

Harbour no such opinions as he holds who does thee violence, or as he would have thee hold. See things in all their naked reality.

Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

I am not ashamed to confess I am ignorant of what I do not know.

God's law is 'right reason.' When perfectly understood it is called 'wisdom.' When applied by government in regulating human relations it is called 'justice.

It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and to forget his own.

Some people will say that memory fades away as the years pass. Of course it does if you don't exercise it or aren't very bright to begin with. -- How to grow old: ancient wisdom for the second half of life.

There is nothing so absurd that some philosopher has not already said it.

Nothing that is devoid of justice can be honorable. It was well said by Plato: "Not only is knowledge, when divorced from justice, to be termed subtlety rather than wisdom; but also the soul prompt to encounter danger, if moved thereto by self-interest, and not by the common good, should have the reputation of audacity rather than of courage.

I worked with Diodotus the Stoic, who made his residence in my house, and after a life of long intimacy died there only a short time ago.