Christopher Hitchens on wisdom

Religious ideas, supposedly private matters between man and god, are in practice always political ideas.

The secular state is the guarantee of religious pluralism. This apparent paradox, again, is the simplest and most elegant of political truths.

An incumbent in Washington knows he is in trouble on the day that cartoonists begin to represent him as a king.

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

Socrates470–399 BC

By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.

Confucius551–479 BC

True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we
understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.