- Back of every mistaken venture and defeat is the laughter of wisdom, if you listen.
- Carl Sandburg on Wisdom
- Be happy. It's one way of being wise.
- Sidonie Gabrielle Colette on Wisdom
- Be there a will, and wisdom finds a way.
- George Crabbe on Wisdom
- Beauty, the eternal Spouse of the Wisdom of God and Angel of his Presence thru' all creation.
- Robert Bridges on Wisdom
- Because in the school of the Spirit man learns wisdom through humility, knowledge by forgetting, how to speak by silence, how to live by dying.
- Johannes Tauler on Wisdom
- Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson on Wisdom
- Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.
- Lin Yutang on Wisdom
- Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own.
- Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone.
- Baltasar Gracian on Wisdom
- Beware of false knowledge it is more dangerous than ignorance.
- George Bernard Shaw on Wisdom
- Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought - asleep. When we are weary of the living, we may repair to the dead, who have nothing of peevishness, pride, or design in their conversation.
- William Butler Yeats on Wisdom
- Books are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom.
- George William Curtis on Wisdom
- Books give not wisdom where none was before. But where some is, there reading makes it more.
- Elizabeth Hardwick on Wisdom
- Books should to one of these fours ends conduce, for wisdom, piety, delight, or use.
- John Denham on Wisdom
- Both in thought and in feeling, even though time be real, to realise the unimportance of time is the gate of wisdom.
- Bertrand Russell on Wisdom
- But I do think it's important to remember that writers do not have a monopoly of wisdom on their books. They can be wrong about their own books, they can often learn about their own books.
- China Mieville on Wisdom
- But in its final creation it was not the part of the Father's power to fail as though exhausted. It was not the part of His wisdom to waver in a needful matter through poverty of counsel.
- Giovanni Pico Della Mirandola on Wisdom
- But the law of God came from heaven indeed. God wrote it with his finger, it is the fountain of all wisdom, and therefore shall it continue for ever, and never have an end.
- John Jewel on Wisdom
- But the Wisdom of God, which is His only-begotten Son, being in all respects incapable of change or alteration, and every good quality in Him being essential, and such as cannot be changed and converted, His glory is therefore declared to be pure and sincere.
- But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.
- Edmund Burke on Wisdom
- By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest Second, by imitation, which is easiest and third by experience, which is the bitterest.
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