“Of all our possessions, wisdom alone is imortal.”– Isocrates Related Quotes “Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life – in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk and to make our words and actions all of a color.”– Lucius Annaeus Seneca “Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone.”– Horace “Conventional wisdom on government’s role in inequality often has it backwards. Tax reforms have resulted in a more progressive federal income tax government transfer payments have become less progressive.”– Paul Ryan