„Cynicism is a sorry kind of wisdom.“

— Barack Obama

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„I only wish that wisdom were the kind of thing that flowed … from the vessel that was full to the one that was empty.“
— Platón
„I only wish that wisdom were the kind of thing that flowed … from the vessel that was full to the one that was empty.“
— Socrates
„For some identify happiness with virtue, some with practical wisdom, others with a kind of philosophic wisdom, others with these, or one of these, accompanied by pleasure or not without pleasure; while others include also external prosperity. Now … it is not probable that these should be entirely mistaken, but rather that they should be right in at least some one respect or even in most respects.“
— Aristotle
„Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious.“
— Zhuangzi