The small wisdom is like water in a glass: clear, transparent, pure. The great wisdom is like the water in the sea: dark, mysterious, impenetrable.

Rabindranath Tagore

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We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far.

Swami Vivekananda

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The highest wisdom has but one science - the science of the whole - the science explaining the whole creation and man's place in it.

Leo Tolstoy

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We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.

Leo Tolstoy

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Train your eyes and ears; train your nose and tongue. The senses are good friends when they are trained. Train your body in deeds, train your tongue in words, train your mind in thoughts. This training will take you beyond sorrow.

Buddha

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To give one's self earnestly to the duties due to men, and, while respecting spiritual beings, to keep aloof from them, may be called wisdom.

Confucius

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