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- There is this difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man, really is so but he that thinks himself the wisest, is generally the greatest fool.
- Charles Caleb Colton on Wisdom
- There was endless action - not just football, but sailboats, tennis and other things: movement. There was endless talk - the ambassador at the head of the table laying out the prevailing wisdom, but everyone else weighing in with their opinions and taking part.
- Charles Spalding on Wisdom
- There's a beauty to wisdom and experience that cannot be faked. It's impossible to be mature without having lived.
- There's always a miasma of misinformation emerging from the higher education sector as to which are the 'best' courses to take. My advice would always be to ignore the perceived wisdom and look for the most reliable evidence on the ground.
- David Puttnam on Wisdom
- There's the conventional wisdom, of which I have none, where you get a record deal, you get a publicist, you get a campaign, and you do the tour, but none of that adds up to things like nuance and subtlety and dynamic.
- Chris Robinson on Wisdom
- They are few in the midst of an overwhelming mass of brute force, and their submission is wisdom but for a nation like England to submit to be robbed by any invader who chooses to visit her shores seemed to me to be nonsense.
- George Combe on Wisdom
- They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.
- They see me as being this Super Mom on TV who also can more than handle a difficult husband, and they assume I'm going to be just full of wisdom as a mother and wife myself.
- Patricia Richardson on Wisdom
- They whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed.
- William Cowper on Wisdom
- They would need to be already wise, in order to love wisdom.
- Friedrich Schiller on Wisdom
- This age thinks better of a gilded fool Than of a threadbare saint in wisdom's school.
- Thomas Dekker on Wisdom
- This ceremony and the intellectual aura associated with the Nobel Prizes have grown from the wisdom of a practical chemist who wrote a remarkable will.
- Stanford Moore on Wisdom
- This fear of the Lord is indeed the beginning of wisdom. This consciousness of sin is the straight pathway to heaven.
- Joseph Barber Lightfoot on Wisdom
- This is perhaps the most profound meaning of the book of Job, the best example of wisdom.
- Paul Ricoeur on Wisdom
- This is the highest wisdom that I own freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.
- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe on Wisdom
- This land, which we have watered with our tears and our blood, is now our mother country, and we are well satisfied to stay where wisdom abounds and gospel is free.
- Richard V. Allen on Wisdom
- This society in which we live is radically changing. What previous generations saw as evil is now embraced as being good. It is a dangerous and slippery slope upon which we stand when we reject what Solomon called the beginning of wisdom - the fear of God.
- Ray Comfort on Wisdom
- This, and this alone, is Christianity, a universal holiness in every part of life, a heavenly wisdom in all our actions, not conforming to the spirit and temper of the world but turning all worldly enjoyments into means of piety and devotion to God.
- William Law on Wisdom
- Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects. The best public measures are therefore seldom adopted from previous wisdom, but forced by the occasion.
- Benjamin Franklin on Wisdom
- Those who improve with age embrace the power of personal growth and personal achievement and begin to replace youth with wisdom, innocence with understanding, and lack of purpose with self-actualization.
- Bo Bennett on Wisdom
- Though sages may pour out their wisdom's treasure, there is no sterner moralist than pleasure.
- Lord Byron on Wisdom
- Through mutual understanding, sincerity and goodwill, and with great wisdom and broad views, the leaders on both sides should jointly initiate new opportunities for peace, stability, cooperation and mutual benefit.
- Chen Shui-bian on Wisdom
- Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.
- Alexander Pope on Wisdom
- To acquire knowledge, one must study but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.
- Marilyn Vos Savant on Wisdom
- To avoid entangling alliances has been a maxim of our policy ever since the days of Washington, and its wisdom no one will attempt to dispute.
- James Buchanan on Wisdom
- To be satisfied with a little, is the greatest wisdom and he that increaseth his riches, increaseth his cares but a contented mind is a hidden treasure, and trouble findeth it not.
- To build a great company, which is a CEO's job, sometimes you have to stand up against conventional wisdom.
- Carly Fiorina on Wisdom
- To comprehend the Wisdom of this Injunction the better, and explain the Duty before us, it should be considered, that Government is the only Means by which human Happiness can be attained.
- Charles Inglis on Wisdom
- To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.
- Bertrand Russell on Wisdom
- To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one's own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.
- To keep your secret is wisdom but to expect others to keep it is folly.
- Samuel Johnson on Wisdom
- To keep your secret is wisdom to expect others to keep it is folly.
- William Samuel Johnson on Wisdom
- To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.
- Herman Melville on Wisdom
- To know one's self is wisdom, but not to know one's neighbors is genius.
- Minna Antrim on Wisdom
- To light one candle to God and another to the Devil is the principle of wisdom.
- Jose Bergamin on Wisdom
- To make no mistakes is not in the power of man but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.
- To profit from good advice requires more wisdom than to give it.
- Wilson Mizner on Wisdom
- To suppose more than one supreme Source of infinite wisdom, power, and all perfections, is to assert that there is no supreme Being in existence.
- Adam Clarke on Wisdom
- To think ill of mankind and not wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue.
- William Hazlitt on Wisdom
- To think the world therefore a general Bedlam, or place of madmen, and oneself a physician, is the most necessary point of present wisdom: an important imagination, and the way to happiness.
- Thomas Traherne on Wisdom
- Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live.
- Robert Kennedy on Wisdom
- True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.
- True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.
- True wisdom is less presuming than folly. The wise man doubteth often, and changeth his mind the fool is obstinate, and doubteth not he knoweth all things but his own ignorance.
- True wisdom listens more, talks less and can get along with all types of people.
- Turn your wounds into wisdom.
- Oprah Winfrey on Wisdom
- Unhappy is that Grandeur which makes us too great to be good and that Wit which sets us at a distance from true Wisdom.
- Mary Astell on Wisdom
- Vanity can easily overtake wisdom. It usually overtakes common sense.
- Julian Casablancas on Wisdom
- Virtues are acquired through endeavor, which rests wholly upon yourself.
- Sidney Lanier on Wisdom
- 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
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