The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.
The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.
Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom.
Wisdom is knowing when you can't be wise.
Paul Engle
He whose wisdom cannot help him, gets no good from being wise.
Quintus Ennius
It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.
Epictetus
Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.
Epicurus
It is wisdom in prosperity, when all is as thou wouldn't have it, to fear and suspect the worst.
Desiderius Erasmus
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Erik Erikson