Wisdom

—  Quintilian, 35-96 AD, Roman rhetorician

—  Jean Jacques Rousseau, 1712-1778, Swiss-French philosopher

—  William Shakespeare, 1564-1616, English poet & playwright ‐ As You Like It

—  Sacha Guitry, 1885-1957, French writer

—  Lord Chesterfield, 1694-1773, English statesman & writer

—  Joseph Campbell, 1904-1987, American academic

—  Rainer Maria Rilke, 1875-1926, Czech-German poet

—  Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1772-1834, English poet & philosopher

—  Will Durant, 1885-1981, American historian & philosopher

—  William James, 1842-1910, American philosopher

—  Marcel Proust, 1871-1922, French writer

—  Terry Pratchett, 1948-2015, British writer

—  John Keats, 1795-1821, English poet

—  Alfred Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet

—  Michel de Montaigne, 1533-1592, French thinker

—  Juvenal, 1st-2nd cent. AD, Roman satiric poet

—  Jacques Lacan, 1901-1981, French psychoanalyst

—  Eleanor Roosevelt, 1884-1962, Wife of the 32nd USA president

—  Dr. Thomas Fuller, 1654-1734,  English physician and adage collector

—  William Blake, 1757-1827, English poet & painter

—  Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1803-1884, American philosopher

—  Bias of Priene, 625-540 BC, one of the 7 sages of Ancient Greece

—  Samuel Johnson, 1709-1784, English writer

—  La Rochefoucauld, 1613-1680, French writer

—  André Gide, 1869-1951, French writer, Nobel 1947

—  George Santayana, 1863-1952, Spanish-American philosopher

—  Rumi, 1207-1273, Persian mystic & poet

—  Doug Larson, 1926-2017, American columnist

—  Jean Rostand, 1894-1977, French scientist & philosopher

—  Saadi Shirazi, 1210-1292, Persian poet

—  Arthur Clarke, 1917-2008, British Sci-Fi writer

—  Ludwig Wittgenstein, 1889-1951, Austrian philosopher

—  Confucius, 551-479 BC, Chinese teacher & philosopher

—  Carl Sandburg, 1878-1967, American poet

—  Charles Dickens, 1812-1870, British writer

—  Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1803-1884, American philosopher

—  Elbert Hubbard, 1856-1915, American writer

—  Anton Chekhov, 1860-1904, Russian writer

—  William Butler Yeats, 1865-1939, Irish poet, Nobel 1923

—  Josh Billings, 1818-1885, American humorist

—  Charles Caleb Colton, 1780-1832, English cleric & writer

—  Saint Augustine, 354-430, Christian theologian & philosopher

—  Plautus, c. 254-184 BC, Roman playwright

—  Leo Tolstoy, 1828–1910, Russian writer

—  Bertrand Russell, 1872-1970, British philosopher

—  Charles Dickens, 1812-1870, British writer

—  Thomas Sowell, 1930 -, American political thinker

—  Antoine Rivarol, 1753-1801, French author of maxims

—  Joseph Joubert, 1754-1824, French author of maxims

—  Joseph Joubert, 1754-1824, French author of maxims

—  Joseph Joubert, 1754-1824, French author of maxims

—  Oliver W. Holmes Sr., 1809-1894, American writer

—  Oliver W. Holmes Sr., 1809-1894, American writer

—  Aldοus Huxley, 1894-1963, English writer

—  Bertolt Brecht, 1898-1956, German writer

—  Jean de La Bruyère, 1645-1696, French writer

—  William Hazlitt , 1778-1830, English essayist & critic

—  Terry Pratchett, 1948-2015, British writer

—  Sri Aurobindo, 1872-1950, Indian nationalist, yogi & philosopher

—  Sri Aurobindo, 1872-1950, Indian nationalist, yogi & philosopher

—  Sri Aurobindo, 1872-1950, Indian nationalist, yogi & philosopher

—  D. H. Lawrence, 1885-1930, British writer

—  Hermann Hesse, 1877-1962, German writer, Nobel 1946

—  Arthur Koestler, 1905-1983, Hungarian-British writer

—  Nicolas Chamfort, 1740-1794, French writer

—  Plautus, c. 254-184 BC, Roman playwright

—  Leo Tolstoy, 1828–1910, Russian writer

—  Nicolas Gomez Davila, 1913-1994, Colombian writer

—  Ambrose Bierce, 1842–1914, American writer

Patientia comes est sapientiae.

—  Saint Augustine, 354-430, Christian theologian & philosopher

—  Bob Marley, 1945-1981, Jamaican singer

—  T. S. Eliot, 1888-1965, British poet, Nobel 1948

—  William Wordsworth, 1770-1850, English poet

—  Antonio Machado, 1875-1939, Spanish poet & playwright

—  Omar Khayyam, 1048-1131, Persia poet & polymath

Αρχή Σοφίας ονομάτων επίσκεψις.

—  Antisthenes, 445-360 BC, Ancient Greek Cynic philosopher

Χρήσιμ’ ειδώς ουχ ο πολλά ειδώς σοφός.

—  Aeschylus, 525-456 BC, Ancient Greek tragedian

Πολλών δ’ ανθρώπων ίδεν άστεα και νόον έγνων.

—  Homer, c. 800-750 BC, Ancient Greek Poet ‐ Odyssey I

Eυ αν έχοι ... ει τοιούτον είη η σοφία ωστ᾽ εκ του πληρεστέρου εις το κενώτερον ρειν ημών…

—  Plato, 427-347 BC, Ancient Greek philosopher

Σοφία μόνον κτημάτων αθάνατον.

—  Isocrates, 436-338 BC, Ancient Greek rhetorician

Γίνεται δε εκ του φρονείν τρία ταύτα: βουλεύεσθαι καλώς, λέγειν αναμαρτήτως και πράττειν ά δει.

—  Democritus, 470-370 BC, Ancient Greek philosopher

Σοφόν λέγουσι τον χρόνον πεφυκέναι.

—  Agathon, 450-400 BC, Ancient Greek tragic poet

Ιατρική μεν σώματος νόσους ακέεεται, σοφίη δε ψυχήν παθών αφαιρείται.

—  Democritus, 470-370 BC, Ancient Greek philosopher

Σκαιοίσι πολλοίς είς σοφός διόλλυται.

—  Sophocles, 496-406 BC, Ancient tragic poet

Σοφού προς ανδρός όστις εν βραχεί πολλούς καλώς οίος τε συντέμνειν λόγους.

—  Aristophanes, 445-386 BC, Ancient Greek comic playwright ‐ Thesmophoriazusae

—  Chinese proverb

—  American Indian proverb ‐ Cheyenne

—  Russian proverb