You can’t get too high for somebody to bring you down.
You can see farther into a millstone than he.[translation by John Willis Clark]Your worship knows a point more than the devil in all you say and think.[translation by John Ormsby][Vuesa merced un punto más que el diablo en cuanto habla y en cuanto piensa.]
Without Freedom of Thought, there can be no such Thing as Wisdom; and no such Thing as publick Liberty, without Freedom of Speech.
Wise men think and speak alike.
Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something.
Wise men say nothing in dangerous times.
Wise men ne’er sit and wail their loss but cheerly seek how to redress their harms.
Wisdom usually grows up on us like calluses when we are old, gnarled and bent.
Wisdom lies only in truth.
Wisdom is the understanding of celestial things to which the Spirit is brought by Love.[La Sagesse est la compréhension des choses célestes auxquelles l’Esprit arrive par l’Amour.]
Wisdom is one of the few things that looks bigger the further away it is.
Wisdom is not communicable. The wisdom which a wise man tries to communicate always sounds foolish… Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.
