Tell 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 MarmionMusic is your own experience, your thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn.
Charlie ParkerIt is the province of knowledge to speak and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.
Oliver Wendell HolmesThe 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.
MenedemusThe virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.
AristotleDo 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 CurtisWisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfful to seek other than itself.
Kahlil GibranMight I have had my own will, I would not have married Wisdom herself, if she would have had me
MontaigneNature never says one thing, Wisdom another
JuvenalGovernment is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. People have the right to expect that these wants will be provided for by this wisdom.
Jimmy CarterMistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.
Phyllis TherouxI 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 CyrusMorality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.
Graham GreeneWho 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 PatonCleverness is not wisdom.
EuripidesThe pine stays green in winter... wisdom in hardship.
Norman DouglasWisdom is learning what to overlook.
William JamesAs 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 ByrneApothegms are portable wisdom, the quintessential extracts of thought and feelings.
William R AlgerWisdom triumphs over chance
JuvenalHowever great an evil immorality may be, we must not forget that it is not without its beneficial consequences. It is only through extremes that men can arrive at the middle path of wisdom and virtue. [Thus speaks the great philosopher]
Wilhelm Von HumboldtPope 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 MbekiThe doors of wisdom are never shut.
Benjamin FranklinHe whose wisdom cannot help him, gets no good from being wise
Quintus EnniusA man may learn wisdom even from a foe (The Birds)
AristophanesA short saying often contains much wisdom.
SophoclesWisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.
Francis QuarlesNever mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life.
Sandra CareySome 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 TurnerWisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late
Felix FrankfurterSometimes 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 WatsonGod, 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 NiebuhrWisdom denotes the pursuing of the best ends by the best means.
Francis HutchesonIn wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.
Ansel Adams Wisdom is oftimes nearer when we stoop, then when we soar.
William WordsworthBooks 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 AndrewsKnowledge is proud that he has learned so much;
Wisdom is humble that he knows no more.
William CowperDost thou not know, my son, with how little wisdom the world is governed?
Count OxenstiernaIn 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 JacksonA proverb is one man's wit and all men's wisdom.
Lord John RussellOf all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.
EpicurusPain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain.
Kahlil GibranWisdom is knowledge which has become a part of one's being.
Orison Swett MardenNot 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 MeirThe 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 AbelardHonesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.
Thomas JeffersonAnother 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 BarryMen who know themselves are no longer fools. They stand on the threshold of the door of Wisdom.
Havelock EllisIt 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 Yeats
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