Knowledge dwells in heads replete with thoughts of other men; wisdom in minds attentive to their own.

Go where he will, the wise man is at home, His hearth the earth, his hall the azure dome.

Wisdom lies in thinking. The spear-head of thinking is rationalism,

Wit and wisdom are born with a man.

He had thought more than other men, and in matters of the intellect he had that calm objectivity, that certainty of thought and knowledge, such as only really intellectual men have, who have no axe to grind, who never wish to shine, or to talk others down, or to appear always in the right.

A Wise man knows that much of what he says and does is commonplace and trivial. His thoughts are not all solemn and sacred in his own eyes. He is able to laugh at himself and is not offended when others make him a subject whereon to exercise their wit.

The man of wisdom is the man of years.

Man is obviously made for thinking. Therein lies all his dignity and his merit; and his whole duty is to think as he ought.

A wise man is the one who influences the world with the tao that he has mastered.

— a knowledgeable man is a free man, or at least a man who longs for freedom.

The wise man is one who, knows, what he does not know.

Wisdom is the measure of long-term thinking.

All wisdom's armoury this man could wield

A man is what he thinks about all day long