Wisdom is the quality that keeps you from getting into situations where you need it.
Doug LarsonMistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.
Phyllis TherouxEvil can be a teacher, if you look at the wisdom of its negative power.
Tom Brown JrWisdom sails with wind and time
John FlorioHe 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 BushIt is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own
William Ralph IngeKnowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power.
Lao TzuBooks are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought - asleep. When we are weary of the living, we may repair to the dead, who have nothing of peevishness, pride, or design in their conversation.
W B YeatsWe do not sit as a superlegislature to weigh the wisdom of legislation.
William O DouglasMusic is your own experience, your thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn.
Charlie ParkerThe wisdom of man never yet contrived a system of taxation that would operate with perfect equality.
Andrew JacksonAnother 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 BarryWisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late
Felix FrankfurterWisdom 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 WhitmanConvictions 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 NietzscheThe saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
Isaac AsimovIn 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 JacksonThe 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 AbelardScience is one thing, wisdom is another. Science is an edged tool, with which men play like children, and cut their own fingers.
Sir Arthur EddingtonWisdom has never made a bigot, but learning has.
Josh BillingsGrey hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.
Rabindranath TagoreHe whose wisdom cannot help him, gets no good from being wise
Quintus EnniusAll this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man.
Henry David ThoreauJust as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.
Sigmund FreudBooks of quotations are an elemental model of how culture is perpetuated, the wisdom of the trite passed on to posterity, to be added to, edited, and modified by subsequent generations.
Robert AndrewsUnion 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 StevensLessons of wisdom have the most power over us when they capture the heart through the groundwork of a story, which engages the passions.
Laurence SterneThe invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.
Ralph Waldo EmersonA proverb is one man's wit and all men's wisdom.
Lord John RussellWisdom begins at the end.
Daniel WebsterAge does not bring you wisdom, age brings you wrinkles.
Estelle GettyWisdom is learning what to overlook.
William JamesWisdom is meaningless until your own experience has given it meaning and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.
Bergen EvansPain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain.
Kahlil GibranScience is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
Imannuel KantAnd 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 BedeLove is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
Samuel JohnsonWisdom is oftimes nearer when we stoop, then when we soar.
William WordsworthPope 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 MbekiWisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfful to seek other than itself.
Kahlil GibranBy three methods we may learn wisdom: first, by reflection, which is noblest; second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.
ConfuciusSome 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 TurnerThere is no knowledge, no light, no wisdom that you are in possession of, but what you have received it from some source.
Brigham YoungMen who know themselves are no longer fools. They stand on the threshold of the door of Wisdom.
Havelock EllisAs I visited the various neighborhoods in the campaign, I learned fast that it's a mistake to think that all of the wisdom and possible solutions to our problems are available only in this building.
Jane ByrneThis is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.
Johann Wolfgang Von GoetheEffective questioning brings insight, which fuels curiosity, which cultivates wisdom.
Chip BellOne's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything.
Georg LichtenbergKeep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.
Kahlil GibranKnowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.
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