W I S D O M

“Wisdom doesn't automatically come with old age. Nothing does - except wrinkles. It's true, some wines improve with age. But only if the grapes were good in the first place.” “Trouble brings experience, and experience brings wisdom.”“Wisdom is a blessing only to those prepared to absorb it.” “If age imparted wisdom, there wouldn't be any old fools.”“It is by the fortune of God that, in this country, we have three benefits: freedom of speech, freedom of thought, and the wisdom never to use either.” “Health is the condition of wisdom, and the sign is cheerfulness, -- an open and noble temper.”“God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.”“Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.” “He whose wisdom exceeds his works, to what may he be likened? To a tree whose branches are numerous but whose roots are few. The wind comes along and uproots it and sweeps it down.”“Of all the things which wisdom acquires to produce the blessedness of the complete life far the greatest is the possession of Friendship.”