“Wisdom might be conversion into a tree.”— Manoel de Barros Related Quotes “Knowledge is a sage’s best friend”— wisdom is his soul mate.Virtue is a saint’s best friend “Mom, Dad, I’m fourteen, I see what the world is like. And, no, I did not get this from the psychologist…I came to this understanding on my own, from what I really see in myself and about life.”— Darryl Steven Markowitz “A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true, for if the things be false, the apprehension of them is not understanding.”— Isaac Newton