“ As for the tokens whereof thou ask me, I may tell thee of them in part: but as touching thy life, I am not sent to shew thee. Compton Gage
“ Anger has great strength, but no brains. Greed has a great appetite, but no heart.Pride has a great spirit, but no soul. Matshona Dhliwayo
“ When good things are so low that no one wants them, I buy them and lay them away in the safe; when owing to some new development, they go up and my shares are so needed that men will pay well for them… Hetty Green
“ Who is the man who can speak to the strong?Where is the fool who can talk to the wise?Men who are dead now have learnt this long,Bitter is wisdom that fails when it tries. Derek Walcott
“ And it is no less true, that personal security and private property rest entirely upon the wisdom, the stability, and the integrity of the courts of justice. Joseph Story
“ Spending two years on my uncle's ranch in Montana as a young man gave me the wisdom and the thrust to do westerns. Robert Duvall
“ I have studied many philosophers and many cats. The wisdom of cats is infinitely superior. Hippolyte Taine
“ Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information? T. S. Eliot
“ He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God. Aeschylus
“ Wisdom is the central form which gives meaning and position to all the facts which are acquired by knowledge, the digestion and assimilation of whatever in the material world the man comes in contact… Northrop Frye
“ It wasn't right that you could only understand your parents' pain once you'd experienced the things they had, and by then they were gone. J. Courtney Sullivan
