"What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?" -- Jean-Jaques Rousseau --

"We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success. We often discover what will do by finding out what he will not do;  and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery." -- Samuel Smiles -- 

"The wisest men follow their own direction." -- Euripides --

"He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has." -- Epictetus --

"I have studied many philosophers and many cats. The wisdom of cats is infinitely superior." -- Hippolyte A. Taine --

 "Information is not knowledge. Knowledge is not wisdom. Wisdom is not truth. Truth is not beauty. Beauty is not love. Love is not music. Music is THE BEST." -- Frank Zappa --

 "Music is . . . A higher revelation than all Wisdom & Philosophy." -- Ludwig van Beethoven --

“The art of being wise, is knowing what to overlook.” — William James —