The 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 MoirEvil can be a teacher, if you look at the wisdom of its negative power.
Tom Brown JrBesides 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 YutangSometimes one likes foolish people for their folly, better than wise people for their wisdom.
Elizabeth GaskellWisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use.
Thomas J WatsonWe should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it.
Mark TwainThe pine stays green in winter... wisdom in hardship.
Norman DouglasOne's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything.
Georg LichtenbergMight I have had my own will, I would not have married Wisdom herself, if she would have had me
MontaigneThe doors of wisdom are never shut.
Benjamin FranklinGod, 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 NiebuhrA man may learn wisdom even from a foe (The Birds)
AristophanesKeep 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 GibranWisdom is knowledge which has become a part of one's being.
Orison Swett MardenAs 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 ByrneMixing one's wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.
Bertolt BrechtPope 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 MbekiEffective questioning brings insight, which fuels curiosity, which cultivates wisdom.
Chip BellI 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 CyrusGrey hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.
Rabindranath TagoreNot till the fire is dying in the grate, Look we for any kinship with the stars. Oh, wisdom never comes when it is gold, And the great price we paid for it full worth: We have it only when we are half earth. Little avails that coinage to the old!
Golda MeirNot by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.
Titus Maccius PlautusScience is one thing, wisdom is another. Science is an edged tool, with which men play like children, and cut their own fingers.
Sir Arthur EddingtonThe invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.
Ralph Waldo EmersonMen always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself; the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache.
Gilbert Keith ChestertonWisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone.
HoraceWisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon In life, all good things come hard, but wisdom is the hardest to come by.
Lucille BallIt 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 YeatsConvictions 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 NietzscheWisdom 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 WhitmanIt requires wisdom to understand wisdom; the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.
Walter J LippmannIt is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own
William Ralph IngeHas fortune dealt you some bad cards. Then let wisdom make you a good gamester.
Francis QuarlesAnger is blood, poured and perplexed into froth; but malice is the wisdom of our wrath.
William DavenantAnother 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 BarryProportion and propriety are among the best secrets of domestic wisdom; and there is no surer test of integrity than a well-proportioned expenditure
Hannah MoreApothegms are portable wisdom, the quintessential extracts of thought and feelings.
William R AlgerHe whose wisdom cannot help him, gets no good from being wise
Quintus EnniusThe 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.
MenedemusPain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain.
Kahlil GibranWe do not sit as a superlegislature to weigh the wisdom of legislation.
William O DouglasWisdom has never made a bigot, but learning has.
Josh BillingsThat man is wisest who, like Socrates, realises that his wisdom is worthless
PlatoThe wisdom of man never yet contrived a system of taxation that would operate with perfect equality.
Andrew JacksonMuch wisdom often goes with fewest words.
SophoclesIt 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 DickensWisdom is the quality that keeps you from getting into situations where you need it.
Doug LarsonLove is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
Samuel JohnsonAnimals, 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.
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