3 December 2020 William Arthur Ward The pessimist complains about the wind the optimist expects it to change the realist adjusts the sails.
3 December 2020 John C. Maxwell A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them.
3 December 2020 Edmund Burke But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.
3 December 2020 Paul Klee Children also have artistic ability, and there is wisdom in there having it! The more helpless they are, the more instructive are the examples they furnish us and they must be preserved free of corruption from an early age.
3 December 2020 Thomas Huxley The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all other woes of mankind, is wisdom. Teach a man to read and write, and you have put into his hands the great keys of the wisdom box. But it is quite another thing to open the box.
3 December 2020 Khalil Gibran Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself.
3 December 2020 Robert Louis Stevenson Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them in their mediocrity.
3 December 2020 William Penn He who is taught to live upon little owes more to his father’s wisdom than he who has a great deal left him does to his father’s care.
3 December 2020 Evelyn Underhill Deliberately seek opportunities for kindness, sympathy, and patience.
3 December 2020 Carly Fiorina To build a great company, which is a CEO’s job, sometimes you have to stand up against conventional wisdom.
3 December 2020 Edmund Burke Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom and a great empire and little minds go ill together.
3 December 2020 Rush Limbaugh Enraging liberals is simply one of the more enjoyable side effects of my wisdom.
3 December 2020 Jose Bergamin To light one candle to God and another to the Devil is the principle of wisdom.
3 December 2020 E. O. Wilson 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.
3 December 2020 Khalil Gibran Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents.
3 December 2020 Graham Greene Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.
3 December 2020 Daniel J. Boorstin The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance – it is the illusion of knowledge.
3 December 2020 Harry Dean Stanton You want people walking away from the conversation with some kernel of wisdom or some kind of impact.
3 December 2020 James Huneker He dares to be a fool, and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.
3 December 2020 Jesse Helms I have tried at every point to seek God’s wisdom on the decisions I made, and I made it my business to speak up on behalf of the things God tells us are important to Him.
