Tell me what you find better, or more honourable than age. Is not wisdom entailed upon it? Take the pre-eminence of it in everything; and in an old friend, in old wine, in an old pedigree
Shackerley MarmionNine-tenths of wisdom consists in being wise in time.
Theodore RooseveltBooks should to one of these fours ends conduce, for wisdom, piety, delight, or use.
John DenhamIn life, all good things come hard, but wisdom is the hardest to come by.
Lucille BallScience is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
Imannuel KantSome of the best lessons we ever learn are learned from past mistakes. The error of the past is the wisdom and success of the future.
Dale TurnerThat man is wisest who, like Socrates, realises that his wisdom is worthless
PlatoWisdom sails with wind and time
John FlorioTo profit from good advice requires more wisdom than to give it.
Wilson MiznerWisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred to talk.
Doug LarsonThe increasing influence of the Bible is marvelously great, penetrating everywhere. It carries with it a tremendous power of freedom and justice guided by a combined force of wisdom and goodness
David MoirConventional wisdom notwithstanding, there is no reason either in football or in poetry why the two should not meet in a man's life if he has the weight and cares about the words.
Archibald MacLeishMixing one's wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.
Bertolt BrechtHe is a man of great wisdom and knowledge. He is a man who serves the Lord.
We remember well a sermon at the pope's funeral in Rome. His words touched our hearts and the hearts of millions. We join with our fellow citizens and millions around the world who pray for continuous strength and wisdom. [on Pope Benedict XVI]
George BushSometimes one likes foolish people for their folly, better than wise people for their wisdom.
Elizabeth GaskellWisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late
Felix FrankfurterBesides the noble art of getting things done there is the art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.
Lin YutangIn wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.
Ansel Adams The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
Isaac AsimovThose who have no compassion have no wisdom. Knowledge, yes - cleverness, maybe - wisdom, no. A clever mind is not a heart.
Benjamin HoffHowever great an evil immorality may be, we must not forget that it is not without its beneficial consequences. It is only through extremes that men can arrive at the middle path of wisdom and virtue. [Thus speaks the great philosopher]
Wilhelm Von HumboldtPope Benedict XVI assumes leadership at a critical time in which the world's collective wisdom and leadership including that of the religious community is most important to face up to challenges of deepening poverty and under-development afflicting many people of the world.
Thabo MbekiHas fortune dealt you some bad cards. Then let wisdom make you a good gamester.
Francis QuarlesWisdom triumphs over chance
JuvenalDemocracy is cumbersome, slow and inefficient, but in due time, the voice of the people will be heard and their latent wisdom will prevail.
AnonymousOur own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack. We give it orders which make no sense.
Henry MillerWisdom is meaningless until your own experience has given it meaning and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.
Bergen EvansAge does not bring you wisdom, age brings you wrinkles.
Estelle GettyWisdom outweighs any wealth.
SophoclesWho knows for what we live, struggle and die?... Wise men write many books, in words too hard to understand. But this, the purpose of our lives, the end of all our struggle, is beyond all human wisdom.
Alan PatonThis is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.
Johann Wolfgang Von GoetheA proverb is one man's wit and all men's wisdom.
Lord John RussellHe who is taught to live upon little owes more to his father's wisdom than he who has a great deal left him does to his father's care.
William PennWe do not sit as a superlegislature to weigh the wisdom of legislation.
William O DouglasA library of wisdom, is more precious than all wealth, and all things that are desirable cannot be compared to it.
Richard De BuryNature never says one thing, Wisdom another
JuvenalKnowledge is proud that he has learned so much;
Wisdom is humble that he knows no more.
William CowperThe young boys that went to Athens, the first year, were wise men; the second year, philosophers, lovers of wisdom; the third year, mere orators; and the fourth but plebeians, and understood nothing but their own ignorance.
MenedemusSo confident am I in the intentions, as well as wisdom, of the government, that I shall always be satisfied that what is not done, either cannot, or ought not to be done.
Thomas JeffersonThere is no knowledge, no light, no wisdom that you are in possession of, but what you have received it from some source.
Brigham YoungWisdom is not finally tested in the schools, Wisdom cannot be pass'd from one having it to another not having it, Wisdom is of the soul, is not susceptible of proof, is its own proof.
Walt WhitmanAnd even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.
AeschylusMen always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself; the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache.
Gilbert Keith ChestertonThe figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom... in a clarification of life - not necessarily a great clarification, such as sects and cults are founded on, but in a momentary stay against confusion.
Robert FrostIn complete darkness we are all the same, it is only our knowledge and wisdom that separates us, don't let your eyes deceive you.
Janet JacksonMorality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.
Graham GreeneAnd I pray thee, loving Jesus, that as Thou hast graciously given me to drink in with delight the words of Thy knowledge, so Thou wouldst mercifully grant me to attain one day to Thee, the fountain of all wisdom and to appear forever before Thy face.
Venerable BedeWisdom and understanding can only become the possession of individual men by travelling the old road of observation, attention, perseverance, and industry.
Samuel SmilesThe doors of wisdom are never shut.
Benjamin FranklinThe enemy of the conventional wisdom is not ideas but the march of events.
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