Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents.

When we turn to one another for counsel we reduce the number of our enemies.

They consider me to have sharp and penetrating vision because I see them through the mesh of a sieve.

The person you consider ignorant and insignificant is the one who came from God, that he might learn bliss from grief and knowledge from gloom.

Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.

Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself.