Wisdom and understanding can only become the possession of individual men by travelling the old road of observation, attention, perseverance, and industry.
Samuel SmilesWe do not sit as a superlegislature to weigh the wisdom of legislation.
William O DouglasDistrust 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 NietzscheCleverness is not wisdom.
EuripidesWisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone.
HoraceNine-tenths of wisdom consists in being wise in time.
Theodore RooseveltLessons of wisdom have the most power over us when they capture the heart through the groundwork of a story, which engages the passions.
Laurence SterneWisdom is the quality that keeps you from getting into situations where you need it.
Doug LarsonHe whose wisdom cannot help him, gets no good from being wise
Quintus EnniusAnother 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 BarryMagnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.
Edmund BurkeA short saying often contains much wisdom.
SophoclesBooks 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 YeatsEvil can be a teacher, if you look at the wisdom of its negative power.
Tom Brown JrAll this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man.
Henry David ThoreauNot 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 CurtisThe pine stays green in winter... wisdom in hardship.
Norman DouglasWisdom is knowledge which has become a part of one's being.
Orison Swett MardenMen who know themselves are no longer fools. They stand on the threshold of the door of Wisdom.
Havelock EllisBy 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.
ConfuciusHe 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 is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred to talk.
Doug LarsonBooks 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 AndrewsMight I have had my own will, I would not have married Wisdom herself, if she would have had me
MontaigneThe virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.
AristotleIn wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.
Ansel Adams I 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 CyrusOld age deprives the intelligent man only of qualities useless to wisdom
Joseph JoubertApothegms are portable wisdom, the quintessential extracts of thought and feelings.
William R AlgerThe wisdom of man never yet contrived a system of taxation that would operate with perfect equality.
Andrew JacksonAnimals, 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 AddisonThe 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 AbelardTell 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 MarmionKeep 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 GibranThat which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in another.
Adlai StevensonA proverb is one man's wit and all men's wisdom.
Lord John RussellNature never says one thing, Wisdom another
JuvenalWisdom denotes the pursuing of the best ends by the best means.
Francis HutchesonAs 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 ByrneWisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfful to seek other than itself.
Kahlil GibranKnowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.
Alfred Lord TennysonWisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.
Francis QuarlesGood people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure
William SaroyanThough sages may pour out their wisdom's treasure, there is no sterner moralist than pleasure.
Lord ByronA man may learn wisdom even from a foe (The Birds)
AristophanesThe 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 MoirIn life, all good things come hard, but wisdom is the hardest to come by.
Lucille BallTeach you children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.
Sir Walter ScottMixing one's wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.
Bertolt Brecht
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