The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThe wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages may be preserved by quotation.
Isaac DisraeliHe 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 PennPain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain.
Kahlil GibranWisdom sails with wind and time
John FlorioIt is the province of knowledge to speak and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.
Oliver Wendell HolmesAlong with success comes a reputation for wisdom.
EuripidesLove is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
Samuel JohnsonNever mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life.
Sandra CareySome 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 TurnerThough sages may pour out their wisdom's treasure, there is no sterner moralist than pleasure.
Lord ByronIn life, all good things come hard, but wisdom is the hardest to come by.
Lucille BallAnd 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 BedeThe wisdom of man never yet contrived a system of taxation that would operate with perfect equality.
Andrew JacksonDo you know how to establish, regulate and direct the metabolism of your body? The assimilation of foodstuff so that it builds muscles, bones and flesh? No, you don't know how consciously, but there is a wisdom within you that does know.
Donald CurtisThat man is wisest who, like Socrates, realises that his wisdom is worthless
PlatoEvil can be a teacher, if you look at the wisdom of its negative power.
Tom Brown JrThe 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.
MenedemusGovernment is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. People have the right to expect that these wants will be provided for by this wisdom.
Jimmy CarterPope 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 MbekiLearning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe.
Josh BillingsDemocracy is cumbersome, slow and inefficient, but in due time, the voice of the people will be heard and their latent wisdom will prevail.
AnonymousBooks should to one of these fours ends conduce, for wisdom, piety, delight, or use.
John DenhamPractical wisdom is only to be learned in the school of experience. Precepts and instruction are useful so far as they go, but, without the discipline of real life, they remain of the nature of theory only.
Samuel SmilesScience is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
Imannuel KantMistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.
Phyllis TherouxHowever 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 HumboldtWisdom is knowledge which has become a part of one's being.
Orison Swett MardenWho 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 PatonScience is one thing, wisdom is another. Science is an edged tool, with which men play like children, and cut their own fingers.
Sir Arthur EddingtonWe do not sit as a superlegislature to weigh the wisdom of legislation.
William O DouglasMore helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.
George EliotTo profit from good advice requires more wisdom than to give it.
Wilson MiznerCleverness is not wisdom.
EuripidesWisdom is meaningless until your own experience has given it meaning and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.
Bergen EvansDistrust everyone in whom the impulse to punish is powerful! Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?
Friedrich NietzscheA man may learn wisdom even from a foe (The Birds)
AristophanesThe key to wisdom is this - constant and frequent questioning... for by doubting we are led to question and by questioning we arrive at the truth.
Peter AbelardA library of wisdom, is more precious than all wealth, and all things that are desirable cannot be compared to it.
Richard De BuryOld age deprives the intelligent man only of qualities useless to wisdom
Joseph JoubertKnowledge is proud that he has learned so much;
Wisdom is humble that he knows no more.
William CowperHonesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.
Thomas JeffersonThe doors of wisdom are never shut.
Benjamin FranklinWisdom is learning what to overlook.
William JamesDost thou not know, my son, with how little wisdom the world is governed?
Count OxenstiernaUnion of the weakest develops strength not wisdom. Can all men, together, avenge one of the leaves that have fallen in autumn? But the wise man avenges by building his city in snow.
Wallace StevensWisdom denotes the pursuing of the best ends by the best means.
Francis HutchesonHas fortune dealt you some bad cards. Then let wisdom make you a good gamester.
Francis QuarlesGrey hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.
Rabindranath TagoreWisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.
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