The seat of knowledge is in the head; of wisdom, in the heart. We are sure to judge wrong, if we do not feel right.

The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool; the truest heroism is to resist the doubt; and the profoundest wisdom, to know when it ought to be resisted, and when it be obeyed.

Books give not wisdom where none was before. But where some is, there reading makes it more.

The thing that we possess, that machines don't, is the ability to exhibit wisdom.

Without wisdom, the future has no meaning, no valuable purpose.

You can practice to attain knowledge, but you can't practice to attain wisdom.

However, I must not indulge in homespun wisdom here before so distinguished an assembly, especially as I am to be followed by a representative of science.

I continue to believe, contrary to the given wisdom, that it's more interesting to have an album - or, indeed, an individual song - which has variety rather than homogeneity.

We are to seek wisdom and understanding only in the length of days.

Our wisdom comes from our experience, and our experience comes from our foolishness.

Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun.

I acknowledge the privilege of being alive in a human body at this moment, endowed with senses, memories, emotions, thoughts, and the space of mind in its wisdom aspect.

Courage is always the surest wisdom.

Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.

There's a beauty to wisdom and experience that cannot be faked. It's impossible to be mature without having lived.