3 December 2020 Henry Miller Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack. We give it orders which make no sense.
3 December 2020 Ella Wheeler Wilcox The truest greatness lies in being kind, the truest wisdom in a happy mind.
3 December 2020 Deepak Chopra In societies where mature workers are respected and where their wisdom is respected, everybody benefits. Workers are more engaged and productive. Their health is better. They live longer.
3 December 2020 Thomas Shepard In regard of the rich grace and wisdom of his love toward his people for who sees not, but that it is a curse to be unready as these foolish virgins, who were therefore shut out.
3 December 2020 Herbert Hoover Wisdom consists not so much in knowing what to do in the ultimate as knowing what to do next.
3 December 2020 Ethel Barrymore You must learn day by day, year by year to broaden your horizon. The more things you love, the more you are interested in, the more you enjoy, the more you are indignant about, the more you have left when anything happens.
3 December 2020 Samuel Taylor Coleridge Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
3 December 2020 Milan Kundera The novelist teaches the reader to comprehend the world as a question. There is wisdom and tolerance in that attitude. In a world built on sacrosanct certainties the novel is dead.
3 December 2020 Johan Huizinga 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.
3 December 2020 Benno C. Schmidt, Jr. Yale is a crucible in American life for the accommodation of intellectual achievement, of wisdom, of refinement, with the democratic ideals of openness, of social justice and of equal opportunity.
3 December 2020 Plato There are three classes of men lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain.
3 December 2020 Cyril Connolly Purity engenders Wisdom, Passion avarice, and Ignorance folly, infatuation and darkness.
3 December 2020 John Woolman I find that to be a fool as to worldly wisdom, and to commit my cause to God, not fearing to offend men, who take offence at the simplicity of truth, is the only way to remain unmoved at the sentiments of others.
3 December 2020 Mahatma Gandhi It is unwise to be too sure of one’s own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.
