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Author Quote Preview Peter Abelard The key to wisdom is this... Ansel Adams In wisdom gathered over time I... Abigail Adams Wisdom and penetration are the... Joseph Addison Animals, in their generation, are... Aeschylus Memory is the mother of all... Aeschylus Wisdom comes alone through suffering... Aeschylus He who learns must suffer. And... Aeschylus There are times when fear is... Aeschylus It is good even for old... Shmuel Y. Agnon After all my possessions had... Akhenaton To be satisfied with a little... Akhenaton True wisdom is less presuming... Steve Albini Doubt the conventional wisdom unless... James Allen The more tranquil a man... Richard V. Allen This land, which we have... Greg Anderson Let us be about setting high... Minna Antrim To know one's self is wisdom... Pietro Aretino I keep my friends as misers... Aristophanes A man may learn wisdom even... Aristotle The virtue of justice consists... Aristotle Excellence, then, is a state... Roone Arledge The current wisdom now is that... George Arliss Humility is the only true... Mary Kay Ash Central banks don't have divine... Isaac Asimov The saddest aspect of life... St. Francis of Assisi Where there is charity and... Saint Augustine Patience is the companion of... Joe Baca We learned in World War II... Francis Bacon There is a wisdom in this... Francis Bacon A prudent question is one-half... Francis Bacon Silence is the sleep that... Francis Bacon There is a difference between... Philip James Bailey Kindness is wisdom. Lucille Ball In life, all good things come... Honore de Balzac The motto of chivalry is also... Honore de Balzac Wisdom is that apprehension of... Brigitte Bardot I gave my beauty and my... John Barrymore I am thinking of taking a... Maria Bartiromo I'm not a money manager, but... Venerable Bede And I pray thee, loving Jesus... Henry Ward Beecher What we call wisdom is the... Ludwig van Beethoven Music is a higher revelation... Stephen Vincent Benet We thought, because we had... Walter Benjamin Counsel woven into the fabric... Walter Benjamin The art of storytelling is... Bo Bennett Those who improve with age... Jose Bergamin To light one candle to God... Chen Shui-bian Through mutual understanding, sincerity and... Ambrose Bierce Experience - the wisdom that enables... John Bigelow The result showed the wisdom... Josh Billings Learning sleeps and snores in... Josh Billings Wisdom has never made a bigot... William Blake The road of excess leads to... William Blake What is the price of... William Blake The hours of folly are... William Blake The road to excess leads to... Bodhidharma Not engaging in ignorance is... Jean Bodin The study of history is the... Erma Bombeck Who in their infinite wisdom... Napoleon Bonaparte The truest wisdom is a... Hal Borland The ultimate wisdom which deals... Hal Borland Man is wise and constantly in... Bill Bradley Imagination allows us to escape... Omar N. Bradley The world has achieved brilliance... Omar N. Bradley If we continue to develop our... Anne Bradstreet Authority without wisdom is like... David Brainerd The all-seeing eye of God... Louis D. Brandeis In the frank expression of... Bertolt Brecht Mixing one's wines may be a... Gerald Brenan Wisdom is keeping a sense of... Robert Bridges Beauty, the eternal Spouse of... Beau Bridges Second, this epic tale allows... Josh Brolin I covered my face because they... Avery Brooks Knowledge is going to make you... Merry Browne Preconceived notions are the locks... James Buchanan To avoid entangling alliances has... Buddha To enjoy good health, to bring... Buddha Just as treasures are uncovered... Buddha On life's journey faith is... Edmund Burke Magnanimity in politics is not... Edmund Burke But what is liberty without... Leo Buscaglia If I don't have wisdom, I... Jane Byrne As I visited the various... Lord Byron Though sages may pour out... George Byron If I am fool, it is... Herb Caen A man begins cutting his... Michael Caine For all my education, accomplishments... Thomas Carlyle I do not believe in the... Thomas Carlyle In the long-run every... Mary C. Carpenter As far as feeling freedom in... Liz Carpenter Instead of looking at life as... Jimmy Carter Government is a contrivance of... Julian Casablancas Vanity can easily overtake wisdom... Richard Cecil Wisdom prepares for the worst... Pierre Charron The most excellent and divine... John Cheever Wisdom we know is the... John Cheever Wisdom is the knowledge of... Dick Cheney The plan was criticized by... Lord Chesterfield In seeking wisdom thou art... Gilbert K. Chesterton Men always talk about the most... Marcus Tullius Cicero The function of wisdom is to... Marcus Tullius Cicero Knowledge which is divorced from... Marcus Tullius Cicero Rightly defined philosophy is simply... Adam Clarke To suppose more than one... William J. Clinton Strength and wisdom are not... Nick Clooney Conventional wisdom holds that setting... Jean Cocteau The extreme limit of wisdom... Arthur Cohn I chose Sony Classics, not... Samuel Taylor Coleridge Common sense in an uncommon... Jeremy Collier Knowledge is the consequence of... Charles Caleb Colton There is this difference between... Charles Caleb Colton Moderation is the inseparable companion... Charles Caleb Colton Doubt is the vestibule through... George Combe They are few in the midst... Confucius They must often change, who... Confucius By three methods we may learn... Confucius Wisdom, compassion, and courage are... Confucius There are three methods to... William Congreve Come, come, leave business to... Cyril Connolly Purity engenders Wisdom, Passion avarice... Cyril Connolly There is no pain equal to... Peter Conrad Losing faith in your own... Mason Cooley The wisdom of age: don't stop... Mason Cooley At sixty, I know little more... Calvin Coolidge Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers... Bill Cosby Raising children is an incredibly... Gustave Courbet I am not one who was... Norman Cousins Wisdom consists of the anticipation... William Cowper Knowledge is proud that he has... William Cowper Knowledge is proud that he has... William Cowper Wisdom is humble that he knows... William Cowper They whom truth and wisdom... William Cowper Knowledge is proud that it... George Crabbe Be there a will, and wisdom... Sheryl Crow Your art kind of changes as... Aleister Crowley Science is always discovering odd... Ralph Cudworth Now all the knowledge and... e. e. cummings Kisses are a better fate than... George William Curtis Books are the ever burning... Billy Ray Cyrus I always prayed that God would... Isaac D'Israeli The wisdom of the wise, and... Thomas Dekker This age thinks better of a... John Denham Books should to one of these... Ruth St. Denis Our bodies are at once the... Charles Dickens There is a wisdom of the... Charles Dickens A loving heart is the truest... Benjamin Disraeli The wisdom of the wise and... William O. Douglas We do not sit as a... Norman Douglas What is all wisdom save a... Norman Douglas The pine stays green in winter... Norman Douglas The sublimity of wisdom is to... Theodore Dreiser In order to have wisdom we... Julia Louis-Dreyfus I have no agenda except to... Alexandre Dumas All human wisdom is summed up... William Dunbar Your law may be perfect, your... Will Durant Science gives us knowledge, but... Robert Duvall Spending two years on my... Albert Einstein The attempt to combine wisdom... Dwight D. Eisenhower The older I get the more... T. S. Eliot Where is the Life we have... George Eliot In the vain laughter of folly... George Eliot More helpful than all wisdom... Henry Ellis Men who know themselves are no... Ralph Waldo Emerson The sum of wisdom is that... Ralph Waldo Emerson The invariable mark of wisdom... Ralph Waldo Emerson Wisdom has its root in... Ralph Waldo Emerson Before we acquire great power... Paul Engle Wisdom is knowing when you... Quintus Ennius He whose wisdom cannot help... Epicurus Of all things which wisdom... Epicurus Of all the things which wisdom... Epicurus Of all the things which wisdom... Desiderius Erasmus It is wisdom in prosperity... Euripides Silence is true wisdom's best... Euripides Cleverness is not wisdom. Euripides Along with success comes a... Euripides Some wisdom you must learn... William Faulkner The end of wisdom is to... William Feather The wisdom of the wise and... Martin Henry Fischer Knowledge is a process of... John Florio Wisdom sails with wind and... Randy Forbes While many of us never knew... Anatole France I prefer the folly of... Anatole France Irony is the gaiety of... Felix Frankfurter Wisdom too often never comes... Benjamin Franklin The doorstep to the temple of... Benjamin Franklin The doors of wisdom are never... Benjamin Franklin Those who govern, having much... Sigmund Freud Just as a cautious businessman... Robert Frost A poem begins in delight and... Robert Frost The figure a poem makes. It... Kenichi Fukui In particular, for younger researchers... Margaret Fuller It is astonishing what force... Solomon Ibn Gabirol The beginning of wisdom is to... John Kenneth Galbraith One of the greatest pieces of... John Kenneth Galbraith The enemy of the conventional... Richard Le Gallienne A wholesome oblivion of one's... Mohandas Gandhi It is unwise to be too... Stephen Gardiner The greater the step forward... James A. Garfield All free governments are managed... Elizabeth Gaskell Sometimes one likes foolish people... Elizabeth George Writing is no dying art form... Estelle Getty Age does not bring you wisdom... Kahlil Gibran Pain and foolishness lead to... Kahlil Gibran Wisdom stands at the turn in... Kahlil Gibran The teacher who is indeed wise... Kahlil Gibran Keep me away from the wisdom... Kahlil Gibran Wisdom ceases to be wisdom... Jean Giraudoux Education makes us more stupid... Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Wisdom is found only in truth... Johann Wolfgang von Goethe This is the highest wisdom... Mikhail Gorbachev Surely, God on high has not... Baltasar Gracian Without courage, wisdom bears no... Amy Grant There's a beauty to wisdom and... Graham Greene Morality comes with the sad... Paul Greengrass Remembering is painful, it's difficult... Wilfred Grenfell Courage is always the surest... Alex Grey I acknowledge the privilege of... Franz Grillparzer Genius unrefined resembles a flash... Alfred Whitney Griswold The only sure weapon against... Sacha Guitry Our wisdom comes from our... Robert Hall We are to seek wisdom and... Johann G. Hamann All human wisdom works and has... Peter Hammill I continue to believe, contrary... Knut Hamsun However, I must not indulge in... Herbie Hancock The thing that we possess... Herbie Hancock Without wisdom, the future has... Herbie Hancock You can practice to attain... Elizabeth Hardwick Books give not wisdom where... Nathaniel Hawthorne The greatest obstacle to being... William Hazlitt The seat of knowledge is in... William Hazlitt To think ill of mankind and... Jesse Helms I have tried at every point... Arthur Helps We all admire the wisdom of... Jimi Hendrix Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens... Hermann Hesse Knowledge can be communicated, but... Herman Hesse The marvel of the Bhagavad... Herman Hesse Wisdom is nothing but a... James Hillman It's very hard to know what... Thomas Hobbes It is not wisdom but Authority... Dee Hock It is essential to employ... Oliver Wendell Holmes Wisdom is the abstract of the... Oliver Wendell Holmes It is the province of... Homer In youth and beauty, wisdom is... Sidney Hook Wisdom is a kind of knowledge... Bell Hooks Many spiritual teachers - in Buddhism... Herbert Hoover Wisdom oft times consists of... Herbert Hoover Wisdom consists not so much in... Horace Wisdom is not wisdom when it... Julia Ward Howe Theology in general seems to... William Dean Howells Wisdom and goodness are twin... Elbert Hubbard Every man is a damn fool... Arianna Huffington Mainstream media tend to just... Victor Hugo Wisdom is a sacred communion. Johan Huizinga Whether the aim is in heaven... Wilhelm von Humboldt However great an evil immorality... James Huneker He dares to be a fool... Francis Hutcheson Wisdom denotes the pursuing of... Thomas Huxley The only medicine for suffering... Thomas Huxley The only medicine for suffering... Thomas Huxley In science, as in art, and... William Ralph Inge It is astonishing with how... Dean Inge The wisdom of the wise is... Charles Inglis TO comprehend the Wisdom of... Isocrates Of all our possessions, wisdom... William Eardley, IV Lord, bless me with the... Andrew Jackson The wisdom of man never yet... Phil Jackson Wisdom is always an overmatch... Janet Jackson In complete darkness we are... William James Wisdom is learning what to... Thomas Jefferson Honesty is the first chapter... Thomas Jefferson I hope our wisdom will grow... Thomas Jefferson So confident am I in the... Thomas Jefferson Wisdom I know is social. She... Gertrude Jekyll In garden arrangement, as in... Peter Jennings I've always shied away from... John Jewel But the law of God came... Samuel Johnson To keep your secret is wisdom... Samuel Johnson Love is the wisdom of the... William Samuel Johnson To keep your secret is wisdom... Erica Jong No one ever found wisdom... David Starr Jordan Wisdom is knowing what to do... David Starr Jordan Wisdom is knowing what to do... James Prescott Joule After the knowledge of, and... Benno C. Schmidt, Jr. Yale is a crucible in American... Martin Luther King, Jr. Science investigates religion interprets. Science... Joseph Smith, Jr. The best way to obtain truth... Tom Brown, Jr. Evil can be a teacher, if... Juvenal Never does nature say one... Immanuel Kant Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom... John Keats I will give you a definition... Robert Kennedy Tragedy is a tool for the... John F. Kennedy I look forward to a great... John F. Kennedy I look forward to a future... Sally Kirkland I always told, Sandra Bullock... Paul Klee Children also have artistic ability... Karl Kraus Experiences are savings which a... Stanley Kunitz Old myths, old gods, old... Ray Kurzweil Even by common wisdom, there... Lactantius Where fear is present, wisdom... Lactantius The first point of wisdom is... Doug Larson Wisdom is the reward you get... Doug Larson Wisdom is the quality that... Christopher Lasch The left has come to regard... William Law This, and this alone, is... Robert E. Lee The war... was an unnecessary... Robert E. Lee We must expect reverses, even... Edward Levi As an instrument for practical... Georg C. Lichtenberg We have no words for speaking... Georg C. Lichtenberg It is almost everywhere the... Joseph B. Lightfoot This fear of the Lord is... Rush Limbaugh Enraging liberals is simply one... Walter Lippmann It requires wisdom to understand... Abbott L. Lowell Your aim will be knowledge and... George MacDonald The more I work with the... Archibald MacLeish Conventional wisdom notwithstanding, there is... James Madison Every nation whose affairs betray... Maurice Maeterlinck It is not from reason that... Gabriel Marcel Contemplation and wisdom are highest... Orison Swett Marden Wisdom is knowledge which has... Herman Melville To know how to grow old... Menander It is not white hair that... H. L. Mencken The older I grow the more... H. L. Mencken Democracy is a pathetic belief... H. L. Mencken Women always excel men in that... Sam Mendes The perceived wisdom is that... Larry Merchant Follow the wisdom of the great... Henry Miller Our own physical body possesses... Keith Miller Pain is the doorway to wisdom... Giovanni Pico della Mirandola God the Father, the supreme... Giovanni Pico della Mirandola But in its final creation it... Wilson Mizner To profit from good advice... Michel de Montaigne We can be knowledgable with... Michel de Montaigne The most certain sign of... Michel de Montaigne The most manifest sign of... Michel de Montaigne The most manifest sign of... Michel de Montaigne We can be knowledgeable with... Thomas Moore Wisdom and deep intelligence require... Stanford Moore This ceremony and the intellectual... Riccardo Muti Nobility of spirit has more to... Holly Near If you have the guts to... John Henry Newman A great memory is never made... James Newman Words of wisdom are spoken by... John George Nicolay It may be assumed as an... Reinhold Niebuhr God grant me the serenity to... Reinhold Niebuhr God, give us grace to accept... Reinhold Niebuhr The final wisdom of life... Reinhold Niebuhr God, give us grace to accept... Friedrich Nietzsche Does wisdom perhaps appear on... Friedrich Nietzsche There is more wisdom in your... Leonard Nimoy Logic is the beginning of... Gene Oliver My past is my wisdom to... Robert Orben Every speaker has a mouth; An... Origen But the Wisdom of God, which... William Osler The philosophies of one age... Robert Dale Owen Wisdom, prudence, forethought, these are... Thomas Paine War involves in its progress... Arnold Palmer Putting is like wisdom - partly... Charlie Parker Music is your own experience... Walter Pater One of the most beautiful... Alan Paton Who knows for what we live... John Patrick Pain makes man think. Thought... Octavio Paz Wisdom lies neither in fixity... M. Scott Peck Discipline is wisdom and vice... William Penn He who is taught to live... Pindar Even wisdom has to yield to... Plato Knowledge without justice ought to... Plato Cunning... is but the low... Plato The man who makes everything... Plato There are three classes of men... Plato Wisdom alone is the science of... Titus Maccius Plautus Wisdom is not attained by... Titus Maccius Plautus Not by age but by capacity... Plutarch Silence at the proper season... Plutarch To make no mistakes is not... Jane Porter Dr. Johnson has said that the... Orson Pratt If God had sufficient wisdom... Marcel Proust We don't receive wisdom; we... Francis Quarles Has fortune dealt you some bad... Francis Quarles Wisdom not only gets, but once... Anna Quindlen People always blame the girl... Myrtle Reed Silence and reserve will give... Thomas Reid And, if we have any evidence... Thomas Reid Every indication of wisdom, taken... Patricia Richardson They see me as being this... Paul Ricoeur This is perhaps the most... Paul Ricoeur Wisdom finds its literary expression... Frederick William Robertson The Divine wisdom has given us... Francois de La Rochefoucauld We give advice, but we cannot... Francois de La Rochefoucauld However glorious an action in... Francois de La Rochefoucauld Few people have the wisdom to... Kenny Rogers There is a trade off - as... George A. Romero As great as Ed is, the... Theodore Roosevelt Nine-tenths of wisdom is being... Theodore Roosevelt Nine-tenths of wisdom consists... Jean-Jacques Rousseau What wisdom can you find that... Joseph Roux Experience comprises illusions lost, rather... Joseph Roux Our experience is composed rather... Theodore Isaac Rubin Kindness is more important than... Bertrand Russell Fear is the main source of... Bertrand Russell To conquer fear is the... Bertrand Russell Both in thought and in feeling... Lord John Russell A proverb is the wisdom of... Dora Russell We have heeded no wisdom... Saadi Whenever you argue with another... Carl Sandburg Back of every mistaken venture... George Santayana Wisdom comes by disillusionment... George Santayana The hunger for facile wisdom... Marilyn vos Savant To acquire knowledge, one must... Adam Schiff It is now conventional wisdom... Friedrich Schiller Full of wisdom are the... Friedrich Schiller They would need to be already... Friedrich Von Schlegel Novels are the Socratic dialogues... Walter Scott Teach you children poetry; it... John Selden No man is the wiser for... Lucius Annaeus Seneca Wisdom does not show itself so... Lucius Annaeus Seneca Wisdom allows nothing to be... Omar Sharif He read his mind. He's a... Wilfrid Sheed One reason the human race has... Thomas Shepard In regard of the rich grace... William Tecumseh Sherman My aim, then, was to whip... Jenny Shipley Peace is a fragile thing. It... Charles Simmons Much of the wisdom of one... Samuel Smiles We learn wisdom from failure... Samuel Smiles Practical wisdom is only to be... Samuel Smiles The experience gathered from books... Samuel Smiles Wisdom and understanding can only... Socrates Wisdom begins in wonder. Socrates The only true wisdom is in... Socrates I decided that it was not... Socrates True wisdom comes to each of... King Solomon Start with God - the first... Solon Rich people without wisdom and... Sophocles Our happiness depends on wisdom... Sophocles Wisdom outweighs any wealth. Sophocles A short saying often contains... Sophocles Wisdom is the supreme part of... Sophocles Much wisdom often goes with... Sophocles Wisdom is the most important... Sophocles If you were to offer a... Sophocles Much wisdom often goes with... Robert South The seven wise men of Greece... Joanna Southcott If they can prove that I... Charles Spalding There was endless action - not... Charles Spurgeon Wisdom is the right use of... John A. Simone, Sr. The key to wisdom is knowing... Konstantin Stanislavisky The greatest wisdom is to... Harry Dean Stanton You want people walking away... Wallace Stegner Most things break, including hearts... Laurence Sterne Lessons of wisdom have the... Laurence Sterne Sciences may be learned by... Adlai E. Stevenson That which seems the height of... Robert Louis Stevenson Most of our pocket wisdom is... Parker Stevenson I do interviews because it's a... Joseph E. Stiglitz Economists often like startling theorems... Ezra Stiles A monarchy conducted with infinite... Ezra Stiles In justice to human society it... Ezra Stiles The constitutions of Maryland and... Clifford Stoll Data is not information, Information... Joseph Story And it is no less true... Leo Strauss If the highest things are... Igor Stravinsky I have learned throughout my... Emanuel Swedenborg The Divine of the Lord in... Wislawa Szymborska I have sympathy for young... Rabindranath Tagore Gray hairs are signs of wisdom... Hippolyte Taine I have studied many philosophers... Johannes Tauler God in His wisdom has decided... Johannes Tauler Because in the school of the... Rod Taylor I am a poor student sitting... Sara Teasdale Wisdom is not acquired save as... William Temple Man's wisdom is his best... Alfred Lord Tennyson Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers... Phyllis Theroux Mistakes are the usual bridge... Bennie Thompson Any successful nominee should possess... Henry David Thoreau It is a characteristic of... Henry David Thoreau All this worldly wisdom was... Henry David Thoreau Ignorance and bungling with love... Kiana Tom True wisdom listens more, talks... Nina Totenberg I actually think with age... Thomas Traherne To think the world therefore a... Anthony Trollope It may almost be a question... Martin Farquhar Tupper Memory is not wisdom; idiots... Dale Turner Some of the best lessons we... Tina Turner I'm not wise, but the... Lao Tzu Knowing others is wisdom, knowing... Lao Tzu Knowing others is intelligence; knowing... Mo Udall Lord, give us the wisdom to... Morihei Ueshiba Always keep your mind as... John Updike Now that I am sixty, I... John Updike The Founding Fathers in their... Bernard De Voto Pessimism is only the name... Greg Walden A man of strength and wisdom... Thomas J. Watson Wisdom is the power to put... Evelyn Waugh He was gifted with the sly... Daniel Webster Wisdom begins at the end. John Webster For the subtlest folly proceeds... Edith Wharton Life is the only real... Timothy White I think in conventional magazine... Barry White I'll come to you with gifts... William Whitehead Wisdom alone is true ambition's... Alfred North Whitehead Knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows... Alfred North Whitehead Wisdom alone is true ambition's... Walt Whitman Wisdom is not finally tested... Ella Wheeler Wilcox The truest greatness lies in... Esther Williams The wisdom acquired with the... Rowan D. Williams And when the world is created... Tom Wilson Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with... E. O. Wilson We are drowning in information... Oprah Winfrey Turn your wounds into wisdom. Oprah Winfrey Follow your instincts. That's where... Ludwig Wittgenstein It seems to me that, in... Bob Woodward Many people have their reputations... John Woolman I find that to be a... William Wordsworth Wisdom is oftentimes nearer when... William Wordsworth Wisdom is ofttimes nearer when... William Butler Yeats Books are but waste paper... William Butler Yeats If suffering brings wisdom, I... Brigham Young There is no knowledge, no... Edward Young The weak have remedies, the... Edward Young The clouds may drop down... Lin Yutang Besides the noble art of... Zhuangzi Great wisdom is generous; petty... Zhuang Zi Great wisdom is generous; petty...

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