- The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom to serve all, but love only one.
- Honore De Balzac on Wisdom
- The novelist teaches the reader to comprehend the world as a question. There is wisdom and tolerance in that attitude. In a world built on sacrosanct certainties the novel is dead.
- Milan Kundera on Wisdom
- The older I get the more wisdom I find in the ancient rule of taking first things first. A process which often reduces the most complex human problem to a manageable proportion.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower on Wisdom
- The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
- H. L. Mencken on Wisdom
- The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all other woes of mankind, is wisdom. Teach a man to read and write, and you have put into his hands the great keys of the wisdom box. But it is quite another thing to open the box.
- Thomas Huxley on Wisdom
- The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
- The opportunity for brotherhood presents itself every time you meet a human being.
- Jane Wyman on Wisdom
- The perceived wisdom is that people do not go in large numbers to black-and-white movies anymore - which is a great shame, but I'd love to make a black-and-white movie one day.
- Sam Mendes on Wisdom
- The pessimist complains about the wind the optimist expects it to change the realist adjusts the sails.
- William Arthur Ward on Wisdom
- The philosophies of one age have become the absurdities of the next, and the foolishness of yesterday has become the wisdom of tomorrow.
- William Osler on Wisdom
- The pine stays green in winter... wisdom in hardship.
- Norman Douglas on Wisdom
- The plan was criticized by some retired military officers embedded in TV studios. But with every advance by our coalition forces, the wisdom of that plan becomes more apparent.
- Dick Cheney on Wisdom
- The Relation we bear to the Wisdom of the Father, the Son of His Love, gives us indeed a dignity which otherwise we have no pretence to. It makes us something, something considerable even in God's Eyes.
- Mary Astell on Wisdom
- The result showed the wisdom of your orders.
- John Bigelow on Wisdom
- The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.
- William Blake on Wisdom
- The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
- Isaac Asimov on Wisdom
- The seat of knowledge is in the head of wisdom, in the heart. We are sure to judge wrong, if we do not feel right.
- William Hazlitt on Wisdom
- The seven wise men of Greece, so famous for their wisdom all the world over, acquired all that fame, each of them, by a single sentence consisting of two or three words.
- Robert South on Wisdom
- The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention.
- John Burroughs on Wisdom
- The study of history is the beginning of political wisdom.
- Jean Bodin on Wisdom
- The stupidity of people comes from having an answer for everything. The wisdom of the novel comes from having a question for everything.
- Milan Kundera on Wisdom
- The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living, which are to be desired when dying.
- Norman Douglas on Wisdom
- The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson on Wisdom
- The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.
- Khalil Gibran on Wisdom
- The thing that we possess, that machines don't, is the ability to exhibit wisdom.
- Herbie Hancock on Wisdom
- The truest greatness lies in being kind, the truest wisdom in a happy mind.
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox on Wisdom
- The truest wisdom is a resolute determination.
- Napoleon Bonaparte on Wisdom
- The truth is not for all men, but only for those who seek it.
- The ultimate wisdom which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed. There it lies, the simplest fact of the universe and at the same time the one which calls faith rather than reason.
- Hal Borland on Wisdom
- The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.
- The war... was an unnecessary condition of affairs, and might have been avoided if forebearance and wisdom had been practiced on both sides.
- Robert E. Lee on Wisdom
- The weak have remedies, the wise have joys superior wisdom is superior bliss.
- Edward Young on Wisdom
- The wheel that squeaks the loudest is the one that gets the grease.
- Josh Billings on Wisdom
- The wisdom acquired with the passage of time is a useless gift unless you share it.
- Esther Williams on Wisdom
- The wisdom and experience of older people is a resource of inestimable worth. Recognizing and treasuring the contributions of older people is essential to the long-term flourishing of any society.
- Daisaku Ikeda on Wisdom
- The wisdom of age: don't stop walking.
- Mason Cooley on Wisdom
- The wisdom of crowds works when the crowd is choosing the price of an ox, when there's a single numeric average. But if it's a design or something that matters, the decision is made by committee, and that's crap. You want people and groups who are able to think thoughts before they share.
- Jaron Lanier on Wisdom
- The wisdom of God's Word is quite clear on believers being unequally yoked. And marrying someone who is not a Christian - who is not a daily disciple of Christ - is being unequally yoked, regardless of what their beliefs might be.
- Pat Robertson on Wisdom
- The wisdom of man never yet contrived a system of taxation that would operate with perfect equality.
- Andrew Jackson on Wisdom
- The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.
- Benjamin Disraeli on Wisdom
- The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages is preserved into perpetuity by a nation's proverbs, fables, folk sayings and quotations.
- William Feather on Wisdom
- The wisdom of the wise is an uncommon degree of common sense.
- The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation.
- Isaac D'Israeli on Wisdom
- The word philosophy sounds high-minded, but it simply means the love of wisdom. If you love something, you don't just read about it you hug it, you mess with it, you play with it, you argue with it.
- Hugh Jackman on Wisdom
- The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes on Wisdom
- Theology in general seems to me a substitution of human ingenuity for divine wisdom.
- Julia Ward Howe on Wisdom
- There are three classes of men lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain.
- There are three faithful friends - an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
- Benjamin Franklin on Wisdom
- There are three methods to gaining wisdom. The first is reflection, which is the highest. The second is limitation, which is the easiest. The third is experience, which is the bitterest.
- There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.
- Francis Bacon on Wisdom
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