All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man.
Henry David ThoreauWe do not sit as a superlegislature to weigh the wisdom of legislation.
William O DouglasThe 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 FrostWisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfful to seek other than itself.
Kahlil GibranOur own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack. We give it orders which make no sense.
Henry MillerAnimals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men; but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass.
Joseph AddisonBooks 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 YeatsApothegms are portable wisdom, the quintessential extracts of thought and feelings.
William R AlgerBooks should to one of these fours ends conduce, for wisdom, piety, delight, or use.
John DenhamMore helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.
George EliotWisdom is the quality that keeps you from getting into situations where you need it.
Doug LarsonOld age deprives the intelligent man only of qualities useless to wisdom
Joseph JoubertIt is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own
William Ralph IngeGod, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other.
Reinhold NiebuhrIt is the province of knowledge to speak and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.
Oliver Wendell HolmesIt was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way (A Tale of Two Cities)
Charles DickensA proverb is one man's wit and all men's wisdom.
Lord John RussellSo 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 JeffersonOne's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything.
Georg LichtenbergNot by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.
Titus Maccius PlautusDo 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 CurtisNever mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life.
Sandra CareySometimes one likes foolish people for their folly, better than wise people for their wisdom.
Elizabeth GaskellThey would need to be already wise, in order to love wisdom.
Johann Friedrich Von Schiller One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know.
GalbraithIn 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 JacksonScience 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 and understanding can only become the possession of individual men by travelling the old road of observation, attention, perseverance, and industry.
Samuel SmilesThe pine stays green in winter... wisdom in hardship.
Norman DouglasBy 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.
ConfuciusThat man is wisest who, like Socrates, realises that his wisdom is worthless
PlatoGrey hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.
Rabindranath TagoreLearning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe.
Josh BillingsAnger is blood, poured and perplexed into froth; but malice is the wisdom of our wrath.
William DavenantPain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain.
Kahlil GibranI 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 CyrusWisdom 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 WhitmanWisdom begins at the end.
Daniel WebsterThere is no knowledge, no light, no wisdom that you are in possession of, but what you have received it from some source.
Brigham YoungWisdom outweighs any wealth.
SophoclesWisdom is knowledge which has become a part of one's being.
Orison Swett MardenPractical 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 SmilesWisdom sails with wind and time
John FlorioHe 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 PennTo profit from good advice requires more wisdom than to give it.
Wilson MiznerThis is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.
Johann Wolfgang Von GoetheDemocracy is cumbersome, slow and inefficient, but in due time, the voice of the people will be heard and their latent wisdom will prevail.
AnonymousKnowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.
Alfred Lord TennysonKeep 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 GibranAnd 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 Bede
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