- War involves in its progress such a train of unforeseen circumstances that no human wisdom can calculate the end it has but one thing certain, and that is to increase taxes.
- Thomas Paine on Wisdom
- We all admire the wisdom of people who come to us for advice.
- Arthur Helps on Wisdom
- We all have within us a deep wisdom, but sometimes we don't know we have it.
- Shakti Gawain on Wisdom
- We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom. The world henceforth will be run by synthesizers, people able to put together the right information at the right time, think critically about it, and make important choices wisely.
- E. O. Wilson on Wisdom
- We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.
- George Bernard Shaw on Wisdom
- We are to seek wisdom and understanding only in the length of days.
- Robert Hall on Wisdom
- We can be knowledgable with other men's knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.
- Michel De Montaigne on Wisdom
- We can't command our love, but we can our actions.
- Arthur Conan Doyle on Wisdom
- We do not sit as a superlegislature to weigh the wisdom of legislation.
- William O. Douglas on Wisdom
- We don't pray for the land. We pray for the humans, all humans... starting with the president, Mohammed Morsi, and all officials, and for God to give everyone wisdom and responsibility to manage the affairs of this country and its people in true Egyptian spirit.
- Pope Theodoros II on Wisdom
- We don't receive wisdom we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.
- Marcel Proust on Wisdom
- We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it.
- Francois De La Rochefoucauld on Wisdom
- We have heeded no wisdom offering guidance.
- Dora Russell on Wisdom
- We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already.
- Georg C. Lichtenberg on Wisdom
- We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success. We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.
- Samuel Smiles on Wisdom
- We learned in World War II that no single nation holds a monopoly on wisdom, morality or right to power, but that we must fight for the weak and promote democracy.
- We live in a culture that doesn't acknowledge or validate human intuition and doesn't encourage us to rely on our intuitive wisdom.
- Shakti Gawain on Wisdom
- We must expect reverses, even defeats. They are sent to teach us wisdom and prudence, to call forth greater energies, and to prevent our falling into greater disasters.
- Robert E. Lee on Wisdom
- We should not judge people by their peak of excellence but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.
- Henry Ward Beecher on Wisdom
- We simply can no longer afford to deny the full potential of one half of the population. The world needs to tap into the talent and wisdom of women. Whether the issue is food security, economic recovery, health, or peace and security, the participation of women is needed now more than ever.
- Michelle Bachelet on Wisdom
- We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.
- Stephen Vincent Benet on Wisdom
- What could be more lonely than to be enveloped in silence, to be the last of your people to speak your native tongue, to have no way to pass on the wisdom of the elders, to anticipate the promise of the children. This tragic fate is indeed the plight of someone somewhere roughly every two weeks.
- Wade Davis on Wisdom
- What I lack in energy, I have in wisdom.
- Marcia Cross on Wisdom
- What if Barack Obama established a Presidential Advisory Committee that would meet once every couple of months, bringing together the former presidents for a conference in order to seek their collective wisdom? There is a wealth of experience in former presidents that generally goes untapped.
- Tony Campolo on Wisdom
- What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes?
- Norman Douglas on Wisdom
- What is man's ultimate direction in life? It is to look for love, truth, virtue, and beauty.
- Shinichi Suzuki on Wisdom
- What is the price of experience? Do men buy it for a song? Or wisdom for a dance in the street? No, it is bought with the price of all the man hath, his house, his wife, his children.
- William Blake on Wisdom
- What makes Superman a hero is not that he has power, but that he has the wisdom and the maturity to use the power wisely. From an acting point of view, that's how I approached the part.
- Christopher Reeve on Wisdom
- What we call wisdom is the result of all the wisdom of past ages. Our best institutions are like young trees growing upon the roots of the old trunks that have crumbled away.
- Henry Ward Beecher on Wisdom
- What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau on Wisdom
- What's different now is that while political leaders used to give talking points to talk radio, now talk-radio hosts are giving talking points to political leaders. It's all part of the suffocating spin cycle we're in. In media, politics and publishing, the conventional wisdom is to play to this base.
- John Avlon on Wisdom
- Whatever you do in life, surround yourself with smart people who'll argue with you.
- John Wooden on Wisdom
- When an opponent comes forward, move in and greet him if he wants to pull back, send him on his way.
- Morihei Ueshiba on Wisdom
- When I can look life in the eyes, grown calm and very coldly wise, life will have given me the truth, and taken in exchange - my youth.
- Sara Teasdale on Wisdom
- When I was at drama school, I wanted to change the world, and thought I had some great wisdom to impart to people about humanity. Now that I'm older, I know enough to realise that I know nothing at all.
- Michael Sheen on Wisdom
- When I wrote Living in the Light, I wanted to share about how I live my own life and to encourage people to tap into their own inner wisdom.
- Shakti Gawain on Wisdom
- When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.
- When written in Chinese, the word 'crisis' is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity.
- John F. Kennedy on Wisdom
- When you're used to being prepared to reject conventional wisdom, it leaves you open to learn more.
- Mayim Bialik on Wisdom
- Whenever you argue with another wiser than yourself in order that others may admire your wisdom, they will discover your ignorance.
- Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.
- Lactantius on Wisdom
- Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?
- T. S. Eliot on Wisdom
- Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance.
- Francis Of Assisi on Wisdom
- Whether the aim is in heaven or on earth, wisdom or wealth, the essential condition of its pursuit and attainment is always security and order.
- Johan Huizinga on Wisdom
- While many of us never knew Ronald Reagan personally, we felt close to him because we shared his lighthearted sense of humor, admired his uncommon virtue, and were moved by his remarkable wisdom.
- Randy Forbes on Wisdom
- Who in their infinite wisdom decreed that Little League uniforms be white? Certainly not a mother.
- Erma Bombeck on Wisdom
- Who is wise in love, love most, say least.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson on Wisdom
- Who knows for what we live, and 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 Paton on Wisdom
- Winners never quit and quitters never win.
- Vince Lombardi on Wisdom
- Winning is not everything, but wanting to win is.
- Vince Lombardi on Wisdom
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