You will not make a man wiser by taking freedom of action from him. A man can only learn when he is free to act.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
No man is the wiser for his learning; it may administer matter to work in, or objects to work upon; but wit and wisdom are born with a man.
Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
We can be knowledgable with other men's knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.
It takes a wise man to recognize a wise man.
No matter how long he lives, no man ever becomes as wise as the average woman of forty-eight.
It is best for the wise man not to seem wise.
Wise men don't need advice. Fools won't take it.
The wise man knows how to run his life so that contemplation is Possible.
The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he is willing, in great crises, to give even his life - knowing that under certain conditions it is not worthwhile to live.
A man may learn wisdom even from a foe.