The wise are wise only because they love. And the foolish are foolish only because they think they can understand love.

But who, alas! can love, and then be wise?

Wisdom is the lamp of love, and love is the oil of the lamp. Love, sinking deeper, grows wiser; and wisdom that springs up aloft comes ever the nearer to love.

Love is the food of wisdom; wisdom the food of love; a circle of light within which those who love, clasp the hands of those who are wise.

For to be wise and love exceeds man's might.

Such as the love is, such is the wisdom, consequently such is the man (n. 368)
(Divine Love and Wisdom, 1763)

Love is wiser than wisdom.

Those who love wisdom must investigate many things

He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.

Our purpose in life is to grow in wisdom and in love.

Wisdom comes not from reason but from love.

Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.

"ASK any wise man what he most desires and he will, more than likely, say "more wisdom.

We are all here for a single purpose: to grow in wisdom and to learn to love better.

Content yourself with being a lover of wisdom, a seeker of the truth. Return and return again to what is essential and worthy. Do not try to seem wise to others. If you want to live a wise life, live it on your own terms and in your own eyes.