Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.
Thomas JeffersonThe saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
Isaac AsimovDistrust 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 NietzscheThose who have no compassion have no wisdom. Knowledge, yes - cleverness, maybe - wisdom, no. A clever mind is not a heart.
Benjamin HoffMusic is your own experience, your thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn.
Charlie ParkerWisdom denotes the pursuing of the best ends by the best means.
Francis HutchesonIt is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own
William Ralph IngeProportion and propriety are among the best secrets of domestic wisdom; and there is no surer test of integrity than a well-proportioned expenditure
Hannah MoreIn life, all good things come hard, but wisdom is the hardest to come by.
Lucille BallKeep 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 GibranIt 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 GandhiConvictions 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 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.
MenedemusPope 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 MbekiNot by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.
Titus Maccius PlautusPain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain.
Kahlil GibranDo 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 CurtisScience is one thing, wisdom is another. Science is an edged tool, with which men play like children, and cut their own fingers.
Sir Arthur EddingtonBooks should to one of these fours ends conduce, for wisdom, piety, delight, or use.
John DenhamWho knows for what we live, struggle and die?... Wise men write many books, in words too hard to understand. But this, the purpose of our lives, the end of all our struggle, is beyond all human wisdom.
Alan PatonI 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 CyrusThis is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.
Johann Wolfgang Von GoetheWisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfful to seek other than itself.
Kahlil GibranWisdom 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 WhitmanOur own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack. We give it orders which make no sense.
Henry MillerThe wisdom of man never yet contrived a system of taxation that would operate with perfect equality.
Andrew JacksonNine-tenths of wisdom consists in being wise in time.
Theodore RooseveltThe virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.
AristotleMore helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.
George EliotAlong with success comes a reputation for wisdom.
EuripidesWisdom and understanding can only become the possession of individual men by travelling the old road of observation, attention, perseverance, and industry.
Samuel SmilesHe 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 PennAge does not bring you wisdom, age brings you wrinkles.
Estelle GettyScience is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
Imannuel KantThe 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 AbelardIt 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 YeatsIt 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 DickensUnion 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 StevensMuch wisdom often goes with fewest words.
SophoclesConventional wisdom notwithstanding, there is no reason either in football or in poetry why the two should not meet in a man's life if he has the weight and cares about the words.
Archibald MacLeishAnd 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 BedeHe whose wisdom cannot help him, gets no good from being wise
Quintus EnniusPractical 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 SmilesGrey hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.
Rabindranath TagoreWisdom is the quality that keeps you from getting into situations where you need it.
Doug LarsonIt requires wisdom to understand wisdom; the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.
Walter J LippmannMagnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.
Edmund BurkeThe wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages may be preserved by quotation.
Isaac DisraeliMistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.
Phyllis TherouxWisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late
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