Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know -- and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance. It is better to know -- even if the knowledge endures only for the moment that comes before destruction -- than to gain eternal life at the price of a dull and swinish lack of comprehension of a universe that swirls unseen before us in all its wonder. That was the choice of Achilles, and it is mine, too.

Asimov, Isaac

22.

The wise man says it cannot be done, but the fool goes and does it.

23.

For it is not possible to join serpentine wisdom with columbine innocence, except men know exactly all the conditions of the serpent: his baseness and going upon his belly, his volubility and lubricity, his envy and sting, and the rest; that is, all forms and natures of evil: for without this, virtue lieth open and unfenced.

Bacon, Francis

24.

Who is the wisest man? He who neither knows or wishes for anything else than what happens.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

25.

The greatest event for the world is the arrival of a new and wise person.

Carlyle, Thomas

26.

The price of wisdom is eternal thought.

Birch, Frank

27.

Some folks are wise and some otherwise.

Billings, Josh

28.

Some men are wise, and some are otherwise.

Smollett, Tobias G.

29.

I have known it for a long time but I have only just experienced it. Now I know it not only with my intellect, but with my eyes, with my heart, with my stomach.

Hesse, Hermann

30.

The only one who is wiser than anyone is everyone.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

31.

Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.

James Boswell

32.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

33.

The extreme limit of wisdom --that's what the public calls madness.

Cocteau, Jean

34.

Through wisdom is a house built; and by understanding it is established; and by knowledge shall every room be filled with precious and pleasant riches.

Bible

35.

Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance. Where there is patience and humility, there is neither anger nor vexation. Where there is poverty and joy, there is neither greed nor avarice. Where there is peace and meditation, there is neither anxiety nor doubt.

Francis of Assisi, St.

36.

The wise person has long ears and a short tongue.

Proverb, German

37.

Raphael paints wisdom; Handel sings it, Phidias carves it, Shakespeare writes it, Wren builds it, Columbus sails it, Luther preaches it, Washington arms it, Watt mechanizes it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

38.

The wisest have the most authority.

Plato

39.

Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

40.

As it is the characteristic of great wits to say much in few words, so small wits seem to have the gift of speaking much and saying nothing.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

41.

No man is wise enough by himself.

Titus Maccius Plautus

42.

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of face within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.

Coolidge, Calvin

43.

It is not from reason that justice springs, but goodness is born of wisdom.

Maeterlinck, Maurice

44.

The doors of wisdom are never shut.

Franklin, Benjamin

45.

The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

46.

The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.