But what is liberty without wisdom and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils for it is folly vice and madness without tuition or restraint.

Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people to discourage them from ambitious attempts and generally console them in their mediocrity.

Kisses are a better fate than wisdom.

Cunning... is but the low mimic of wisdom.

Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

No party has a monopoly on wisdom. No democracy works without compromise. But when Governor Romney and his allies in Congress tell us we can somehow lower our deficit by spending trillions more on new tax breaks for the wealthy - well you do the math. I refuse to go along with that. And as long as I'm President I never will.

Follow your instincts. That's where true wisdom manifests itself.

Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom not a guide by which to live.

There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.

The virtue of justice consists in moderation as regulated by wisdom.

Excellence then is a state concerned with choice lying in a mean relative to us this being determined by reason and in the way in which the man of practical wisdom would determine it.

Wisdom has its root in goodness not goodness its root in wisdom.

The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.

It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.

Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.

Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep too grave to laugh and too selfish to seek other than itself.