Distrust 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 NietzscheWisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred to talk.
Doug LarsonBesides 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 YutangThe saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
Isaac AsimovSome 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 TurnerThe virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.
AristotleKnowledge is proud that he has learned so much;
Wisdom is humble that he knows no more.
William CowperEffective questioning brings insight, which fuels curiosity, which cultivates wisdom.
Chip BellMixing one's wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.
Bertolt BrechtMusic is your own experience, your thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn.
Charlie ParkerIt is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.
Mahatma GandhiThe invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.
Ralph Waldo EmersonDo 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 CurtisWisdom is knowledge which has become a part of one's being.
Orison Swett MardenPope 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 MbekiI always prayed that God would give me the wisdom and the vision to do the things on this earth that I was supposed to do to express His life and love and His will. [Including music?]
Billy Ray CyrusProportion and propriety are among the best secrets of domestic wisdom; and there is no surer test of integrity than a well-proportioned expenditure
Hannah MoreTo profit from good advice requires more wisdom than to give it.
Wilson MiznerLearning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe.
Josh BillingsAnd 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 BedeThat which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in another.
Adlai StevensonOne's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything.
Georg LichtenbergIt requires wisdom to understand wisdom; the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.
Walter J LippmannWisdom has never made a bigot, but learning has.
Josh BillingsSometimes one likes foolish people for their folly, better than wise people for their wisdom.
Elizabeth GaskellMagnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.
Edmund BurkePractical 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 SmilesThat man is wisest who, like Socrates, realises that his wisdom is worthless
PlatoA man may learn wisdom even from a foe (The Birds)
AristophanesAlong with success comes a reputation for wisdom.
EuripidesWe do not sit as a superlegislature to weigh the wisdom of legislation.
William O DouglasConvictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent-that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior.
Friedrich NietzscheAll this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man.
Henry David ThoreauHowever 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 HumboldtTeach you children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.
Sir Walter ScottHonesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.
Thomas JeffersonPain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain.
Kahlil GibranAnother possible source of guidance for teenagers is television, but television's message has always been that the need for truth, wisdom and world peace pales by comparison with the need for a toothpaste that offers whiter teeth and fresher breath.
Dave BarryHe 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 BushWisdom triumphs over chance
JuvenalOf all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.
EpicurusCleverness is not wisdom.
EuripidesFear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.
Bertrand RussellAge does not bring you wisdom, age brings you wrinkles.
Estelle GettyThose who have no compassion have no wisdom. Knowledge, yes - cleverness, maybe - wisdom, no. A clever mind is not a heart.
Benjamin HoffWisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone.
HoraceMight I have had my own will, I would not have married Wisdom herself, if she would have had me
MontaigneIt is most important that we should keep in this country a certain leisured class. I am of the opinion of the ancient Jewish book which says 'there is no wisdom without leisure.'
W B YeatsThey would need to be already wise, in order to love wisdom.
Johann Friedrich Von Schiller Wisdom begins at the end.
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