“Clear thinking requires courage rather than intelligence.”— Thomas Szasz, whatsupatupstate.wordpress.com
“There are questions I'm still not wise enough to answer, just wise enough to no longer ask.”— George Jones, books.google.com
“Wisdom can’t be taught and by the same token can’t be learned. Instead, it’s the kind of knowledge you become.”— Deepak Chopra, huffingtonpost.com
“It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.”— Rene Descartes, amazon.com
“The excitement of learning separates youth from old age. As long as you’re learning you’re not old.”— Rosalyn S Yalow, amazon.com
“Our worst fears, like our greatest hopes, are not outside our powers, and we can come in the end to triumph over the former and to achieve the latter.”— Marcel Proust, amazon.com
“It seems to me that the years between eighteen and twenty-eight are the hardest, psychologically. It’s then you realize this is make or break, you no longer have the excuse of youth, and it is time to become an adult – but you are not ready.”— Helen Mirrin, amazon.com
“Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.”— George Orwell, amazon.com
“...common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.”— Samuel Taylor Coleridge, amazon.com
“Forests may be gorgeous but there is nothing more alive than a tree that learns how to grow in a cemetery.”— Andrea Gibson, ohandreagibson.tumblr.com
“I have finally learned that I must remain silent as much as possible. I must always keep my thoughts to myself.”— Sadegh Hedayat, azquotes.com
“Nothing is more creative nor destructive than a brilliant mind with a purpose.”— Dan Brown, amazon.com
“Maybe that's enlightenment enough - to know that there is no final resting place of the mind, no moment of smug clarity. Perhaps wisdom, at least for me, means realizing how small I am, and unwise, and how far I have yet to go.”— Anthony Bourdain, amazon.com