When I was twenty years old, I asked the question: Wisdom where are you? The answer was simple. At forty I asked the same question again and the answer was: Wait until you are sixty. When I asked it again at sixty, the answer was surprising: Are you still looking for wisdom?

And now, after seventy years, I stop looking for it, realizing that it is within us if we stop to understand it.

So many thinkers, philosophers, men of letters have probably acquired it, leaving us some of their famous words.
I think of Rabbi Shlomo ibn Gabirol who said that man is only wise when he seeks wisdom and if he thinks he has found it, he is a fool.
This pleases me, since it meets my position. Jean Cocteau, sympathetically tells us that wisdom is to be a little crazy when the circumstances justify it.

And isn't it true that the ignorant asserts, that the learned doubts while the wise man reflects? Is it not also true that the wise student listens willingly to everyone, reads everything and does not disdain any book, any person, any doctrine. He looks indifferently for what he is going to miss in everyone, and he does not consider the extent of his knowledge but rather that of his ignorance.
In my opinion, this student has read the Treatise of the Principles (Pirke Avot) which says well:
"Who is the wise one? He who learns from every man!"

King Solomon confirmed this: 'it is impossible to reach true wisdom unless one practices.' So it takes a lot more preparation to acquire wisdom. Proverbs (19:20) tells us well: "Listen to the advice, welcome the admonition, so that in the end you may become wise".

How many people have not sought the wisdom of Confucius where it was not: in words and not in deeds?
Maimonides, in his Guide to the Lost, teaches us that wisdom is the science of the remote and proximate causes of a fact whose existence is known and whose causes are sought, and then sagacity, the quickness of mind which consists in quickly grasping a thing, an idea.

Is it not true that it is not our wisdom that we impart to our children but rather the wisdom of humankind. And what is the wisdom of humanity? An excess of self-confidence? An excess of distrust in others? This is what we must be wary of in order to avoid intolerance. Yes, I believe in the wisdom that is imposed by age.
It is well said that in the eyes of the young shines the flame while in the eyes of the old shines the light. And if wisdom is the way to eternity, we must abstain from the course of time.
Let us ask Socrates to tell us which of these minds is the wisest.
Small minds discuss people
Medium minds discuss events
The great minds discuss ideas.
You got it!
I was recently reading Marcus Aurelius' Meditations and found the following wise word: 'May there be strength to bear what cannot be changed and courage to change what can be changed, but also the wisdom to distinguish one from the other.
And finally, let us say that the value of a man is not measured by his money, his status or his possessions. It lies rather in his personality, his maturity, and I would add, his wisdom.