"Our experience is composed rather of illusions that of wisdom acquired." ― Joseph Roux Topic(s): Wisdom More From Joseph Roux "The happiness which is lacking makes one think even the happiness one has unbearable." "We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan; and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him? Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence." "Science is for those who learn, poetry is for those who know." More In Wisdom "Authority without wisdom is like a heavy ax without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish."― Anne Bradstreet "The extreme limit of wisdom, that’s what the public calls madness."― Jean Cocteau "To think the world therefore a general Bedlam, or place of madmen, and oneself a physician, is the most necessary point of present wisdom: an important imagination, and the way to happiness."― Thomas Traherne