About Wisdom

Wisdom is the quality of having experience, knowledge, and good judgement; the quality of being wise.Wisdom, sapience, or sagacity is the ability to think and act using knowledge, experience, understanding, common sense and insight.

If we have built on the fragile cornerstones of human wisdom pride and...

The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be...

Silence at the proper season is wisdom and better than any speech.

A short saying often contains much wisdom.

I prefer the folly of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.

Wisdom comes by disillusionment.

Enraging liberals is simply one of the more enjoyable side effects of my...

I will give you a definition of a proud man: he is a man who has neither...

More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will...

In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause.

To keep your secret is wisdom but to expect others to keep it is folly.

Wisdom is that apprehension of heavenly things to which the spirit rises...

Back of every mistaken venture and defeat is the laughter of wisdom if you...

If suffering brings wisdom I would wish to be less wise.

The hours of folly are measured by the clock but of wisdom no clock can...

Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.

Rightly defined philosophy is simply the love of wisdom.

We must expect reverses even defeats. They are sent to teach us wisdom and...

I am thinking of taking a fifth wife. Why not? Solomon had a thousand wives...

Earthly wisdom is doing what comes naturally. Godly wisdom is doing what the...

I learned some valuable lessons about the legislative process the importance...

The older I get the more wisdom I find in the ancient rule of taking first...

I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue speak and they are...

Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life - in firmness of...

In order to have wisdom we must have ignorance.

We give advice but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it.

We don't receive wisdom we must discover it for ourselves after a journey...

But what is liberty without wisdom and without virtue? It is the greatest of...

Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people to...

Kisses are a better fate than wisdom.

Cunning... is but the low mimic of wisdom.

Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual...

No party has a monopoly on wisdom. No democracy works without compromise. But...

Follow your instincts. That's where true wisdom manifests itself.

Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom not a guide by which to live.