Conventional 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 MacLeishWisdom is meaningless until your own experience has given it meaning and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.
Bergen EvansThe invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.
Ralph Waldo EmersonPope 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 is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use.
Thomas J WatsonA short saying often contains much wisdom.
SophoclesSometimes one likes foolish people for their folly, better than wise people for their wisdom.
Elizabeth GaskellThe 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 AbelardWisdom is oftimes nearer when we stoop, then when we soar.
William WordsworthWisdom is learning what to overlook.
William JamesNot 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 MeirOne of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know.
GalbraithWisdom 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 is knowledge which has become a part of one's being.
Orison Swett MardenHas fortune dealt you some bad cards. Then let wisdom make you a good gamester.
Francis QuarlesWisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone.
HoraceThe virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.
AristotleNever mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life.
Sandra CareyBooks 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 AndrewsOld age deprives the intelligent man only of qualities useless to wisdom
Joseph JoubertJust 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 FreudMorality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.
Graham GreeneOur own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack. We give it orders which make no sense.
Henry MillerWisdom and understanding can only become the possession of individual men by travelling the old road of observation, attention, perseverance, and industry.
Samuel SmilesMen who know themselves are no longer fools. They stand on the threshold of the door of Wisdom.
Havelock EllisIn life, all good things come hard, but wisdom is the hardest to come by.
Lucille BallBooks should to one of these fours ends conduce, for wisdom, piety, delight, or use.
John DenhamThey would need to be already wise, in order to love wisdom.
Johann Friedrich Von Schiller As 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 GoetheKnowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power.
Lao TzuAnother 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 BarryThe wisdom of man never yet contrived a system of taxation that would operate with perfect equality.
Andrew JacksonTeach you children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.
Sir Walter ScottAge does not bring you wisdom, age brings you wrinkles.
Estelle GettyNine-tenths of wisdom consists in being wise in time.
Theodore RooseveltLove is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
Samuel JohnsonEffective questioning brings insight, which fuels curiosity, which cultivates wisdom.
Chip BellIt requires wisdom to understand wisdom; the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.
Walter J LippmannThe doors of wisdom are never shut.
Benjamin FranklinOne's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything.
Georg LichtenbergAnger is blood, poured and perplexed into froth; but malice is the wisdom of our wrath.
William DavenantTo profit from good advice requires more wisdom than to give it.
Wilson MiznerWisdom is never dear, provided the article be genuine
Horace GreeleyHe 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 PennKeep 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 GibranSome 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 YoungWisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfful to seek other than itself.
Kahlil GibranThe wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages may be preserved by quotation.
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