- Teach you children poetry it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.
- Walter Scott on Wisdom
- That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in another.
- Adlai E. Stevenson on Wisdom
- The 'wisdom of the crowds' is the most ridiculous statement I've heard in my life. Crowds are dumb.
- Drew Curtis on Wisdom
- The all-seeing eye of God beheld our deplorable state infinite pity touched the heart of the Father of mercies and infinite wisdom laid the plan of our recovery.
- David Brainerd on Wisdom
- The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
- William James on Wisdom
- The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out.
- Walter Benjamin on Wisdom
- The arts, quite simply, nourish the soul. They sustain, comfort, inspire. There is nothing like that exquisite moment when you first discover the beauty of connecting with others in celebration of larger ideals and shared wisdom.
- Gordon Gee on Wisdom
- The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.
- Albert Einstein on Wisdom
- The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.
- Solomon Ibn Gabirol on Wisdom
- The best way to obtain truth and wisdom is not to ask from books, but to go to God in prayer, and obtain divine teaching.
- Joseph Smith, Jr. on Wisdom
- The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
- The clouds may drop down titles and estates, and wealth may seek us, but wisdom must be sought.
- Edward Young on Wisdom
- The constitutions of Maryland and New York are founded in higher wisdom.
- Ezra Stiles on Wisdom
- The current wisdom now is that if the three networks are covering the news the same way the difference is the anchor people. I think that won't be true in the future.
- Roone Arledge on Wisdom
- The day of fortune is like a harvest day, We must be busy when the corn is ripe.
- Torquato Tasso on Wisdom
- The difference between chirping out of turn and a faux pas depends on what kind of a bar you're in.
- Wilson Mizner on Wisdom
- The Divine of the Lord in heaven is love, for the reason that love is receptive of all things of heaven, such as peace, intelligence, wisdom and happiness.
- Emanuel Swedenborg on Wisdom
- The Divine wisdom has given us prayer, not as a means whereby to obtain the good things of earth, but as a means whereby we learn to do without them not as a means whereby we escape evil, but as a means whereby we become strong to meet it.
- Frederick William Robertson on Wisdom
- The doors of wisdom are never shut.
- Benjamin Franklin on Wisdom
- The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.
- Benjamin Franklin on Wisdom
- The enemy of the conventional wisdom is not ideas but the march of events.
- John Kenneth Galbraith on Wisdom
- The experience gathered from books, though often valuable, is but the nature of learning whereas the experience gained from actual life is one of the nature of wisdom.
- Samuel Smiles on Wisdom
- The extreme limit of wisdom, that's what the public calls madness.
- Jean Cocteau on Wisdom
- The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom... in a clarification of life - not necessarily a great clarification, such as sects and cults are founded on, but in a momentary stay against confusion.
- Robert Frost on Wisdom
- The final wisdom of life requires not the annulment of incongruity but the achievement of serenity within and above it.
- Reinhold Niebuhr on Wisdom
- The first point of wisdom is to discern that which is false the second, to know that which is true.
- Lactantius on Wisdom
- The Founding Fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents. So they provided jails called schools, equipped with tortures called an education.
- John Updike on Wisdom
- The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero on Wisdom
- The future has already arrived. It's just not evenly distributed yet.
- William Gibson on Wisdom
- The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds.
- John F. Kennedy on Wisdom
- The greater the step forward in knowledge, the greater is the one taken backward in search of wisdom.
- Stephen Gardiner on Wisdom
- The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool the truest heroism is to resist the doubt and the profoundest wisdom, to know when it ought to be resisted, and when it be obeyed.
- Nathaniel Hawthorne on Wisdom
- The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge.
- Daniel J. Boorstin on Wisdom
- The greatest wisdom is to realize one's lack of it.
- Constantin Stanislavski on Wisdom
- The hours of folly are measured by the clock but of wisdom, no clock can measure.
- William Blake on Wisdom
- The hunger for facile wisdom is the root of all false philosophy.
- George Santayana on Wisdom
- The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson on Wisdom
- The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions.
- John A. Simone, Sr. on Wisdom
- The 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 Abelard on Wisdom
- The left has come to regard common sense - the traditional wisdom and folkways of the community - as an obstacle to progress and enlightenment.
- Christopher Lasch on Wisdom
- The less you talk, the more you're listened to.
- Abigail Van Buren on Wisdom
- The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.
- Friedrich Nietzsche on Wisdom
- The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation, the man of manly character and of wisdom.
- The marvel of the Bhagavad-Gita is its truly beautiful revelation of life's wisdom which enables philosophy to blossom into religion.
- Herman Hesse on Wisdom
- The more I work with the body, keeping my assumptions in a temporary state of reservation, the more I appreciate and sympathize with a given disease. The body no longer appears as a sick or irrational demon, but as a process with its own inner logic and wisdom.
- George MacDonald on Wisdom
- The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.
- The more tranquil a man becomes, the greater is his success, his influence, his power for good. Calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom.
- James Allen on Wisdom
- The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.
- Michel De Montaigne on Wisdom
- The most excellent and divine counsel, the best and most profitable advertisement of all others, but the least practiced, is to study and learn how to know ourselves. This is the foundation of wisdom and the highway to whatever is good.
- Pierre Charron on Wisdom
- The most important lesson of New Labour is this: Every time we made progress we did it by challenging the conventional wisdom.
- Ed Miliband on Wisdom
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