3 December 2020 Ben Elton I find the fact that billionaires are quoted as if the fact that they are billionaires gives them some kind of wisdom is outrageous.
3 December 2020 William Hazlitt To think ill of mankind and not wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue.
3 December 2020 Robert H. Schuller Spectacular achievement is always preceded by unspectacular preparation.
3 December 2020 Pat Robertson The wisdom of God’s Word is quite clear on believers being unequally yoked. And marrying someone who is not a Christian – who is not a daily disciple of Christ – is being unequally yoked, regardless of what their beliefs might be.
3 December 2020 Ezra Stiles A monarchy conducted with infinite wisdom and infinite benevolence is the most perfect of all possible governments.
3 December 2020 Josh Billings Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess, and yet all the honesty in the world ain’t lawful tender for a loaf of bread.
3 December 2020 William O. Douglas We do not sit as a superlegislature to weigh the wisdom of legislation.
3 December 2020 William Congreve Come, come, leave business to idlers, and wisdom to fools: they have need of ’em: wit be my faculty, and pleasure my occupation, and let father Time shake his glass.
3 December 2020 Benjamin Carson In my own personal life, God plays a great role in the risk, because I pray before I go into the operating room for every case, and I ask him to give me wisdom, to help me to know what to do – and not only for operating, but for everything.
3 December 2020 Alfred Austin Public opinion is no more than this: what people think that other people think.
3 December 2020 William Law 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.
3 December 2020 Jane Porter Dr. Johnson has said that the chief glory of a country arises from its authors. But then that is only as they are oracles of wisdom unless they teach virtue, they are more worthy of a halter than of the laurel.
3 December 2020 Debra Winger Never say never, but the thought of electively cutting oneself is beyond my grasp, and I also object to it politically. Denying the lines on our faces makes a comment about age and wisdom I don’t care to make.
3 December 2020 Randy Forbes While many of us never knew Ronald Reagan personally, we felt close to him because we shared his lighthearted sense of humor, admired his uncommon virtue, and were moved by his remarkable wisdom.
3 December 2020 Christopher Lasch The left has come to regard common sense – the traditional wisdom and folkways of the community – as an obstacle to progress and enlightenment.
3 December 2020 Anthony Hopkins I’m married. My wife, Stella – a beautiful woman. She’s brought a lot of peace to my life, a lot of wisdom.
3 December 2020 John Henry Newman A great memory is never made synonymous with wisdom, any more than a dictionary would be called a treatise.
3 December 2020 Isaac D'Israeli The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation.
3 December 2020 Adam Schiff It is now conventional wisdom that Americans do not care why we went to war in Iraq, that it is enough that the world is better off without Saddam Hussein.
3 December 2020 John Cheever Wisdom we know is the knowledge of good and evil, not the strength to choose between the two.
3 December 2020 Lactantius The first point of wisdom is to discern that which is false the second, to know that which is true.
3 December 2020 Erica Jong No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool. Writers, alas, have to be fools in public, while the rest of the human race can cover its tracks.
