3 December 2020 Moliere A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation.
3 December 2020 Ambrose Bierce Experience – the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.
3 December 2020 Archimedes Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.
3 December 2020 Jane Wyman The opportunity for brotherhood presents itself every time you meet a human being.
3 December 2020 Jay Weatherill My government, you can be assured, will be less focused on personalities. It is about treating people with respect. I think complaining about the community not being able to see the wisdom of our ideas is the wrong approach.
3 December 2020 Oliver Wendell Holmes Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future.
3 December 2020 Brigham Young There is no knowledge, no light, no wisdom that you are in possession of, but what you have received it from some source.
3 December 2020 Lucille Ball I’d rather regret the things I’ve done than regret the things I haven’t done.
3 December 2020 George Eliot More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.
3 December 2020 Elbert Hubbard Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.
3 December 2020 Ed Miliband The most important lesson of New Labour is this: Every time we made progress we did it by challenging the conventional wisdom.
3 December 2020 Ezra Stiles In justice to human society it may perhaps be said of almost all the polities and civil institutions in the world, however imperfect, that they have been founded in and carried on with very considerable wisdom.
3 December 2020 Franz Grillparzer Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun.
3 December 2020 Wilhelm von Humboldt However great an evil immorality may be, we must not forget that it is not without its beneficial consequences. It is only through extremes that men can arrive at the middle path of wisdom and virtue.
3 December 2020 Alan Paton Who knows for what we live, and struggle, and die? Wise men write many books, in words too hard to understand. But this, the purpose of our lives, the end of all our struggle, is beyond all human wisdom.
3 December 2020 Joan Rivers Don’t follow any advice, no matter how good, until you feel as deeply in your spirit as you think in your mind that the counsel is wise.
3 December 2020 George Santayana Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.
3 December 2020 Greg Anderson Let us be about setting high standards for life, love, creativity, and wisdom. If our expectations in these areas are low, we are not likely to experience wellness. Setting high standards makes every day and every decade worth looking forward to.
3 December 2020 John Patrick Pain makes man think. Thought makes man wise. Wisdom makes life endurable.
3 December 2020 Marilyn vos Savant To acquire knowledge, one must study but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.
3 December 2020 John Updike Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency.
3 December 2020 Hugh Jackman The word philosophy sounds high-minded, but it simply means the love of wisdom. If you love something, you don’t just read about it you hug it, you mess with it, you play with it, you argue with it.
