Wisdom I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean. - Socrates
Where there is reverence there is fear, but there is not reverence everywhere that there is fear, because fear presumably has a wider extension than reverence. - Socrates
If all misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart. - Socrates
I'm not wise, but the beginning of wisdom is there; it's like relaxing into - and an acceptance of - things. - Tina Turner
He read his mind. He's a strange sort of man, isn't he? It's not just the advice and the wisdom that he has. - Omar Sharif
The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool; the truest heroism is to resist the doubt; and the profoundest wisdom, to know when it ought to be resisted, and when it be obeyed. - Nathaniel Hawthorne