3 December 2020 Havelock Ellis Men who know themselves are no longer fools. They stand on the threshold of the door of Wisdom.
3 December 2020 Charles Stanley If we have built on the fragile cornerstones of human wisdom, pride, and conditional love, things may look good for a while, but a weak foundation causes collapse when storms hit.
3 December 2020 Zoe Saldana I’m very accepting with my age. It’s like notches on your belt: experience, wisdom, and a different kind of beauty. There comes a day when you’ve become comfortable in your skin.
3 December 2020 Francis Quarles Has fortune dealt you some bad cards. Then let wisdom make you a good gamester.
3 December 2020 Oliver Wendell Holmes The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.
3 December 2020 Sigmund Freud Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.
3 December 2020 Pratibha Patil India is known for its sobriety and wisdom, balanced and sensible thinking. We need strong institutions and we need good governance in the country.
3 December 2020 Dale Turner Some of the best lessons we ever learn are learned from past mistakes. The error of the past is the wisdom and success of the future.
3 December 2020 Ludwig Wittgenstein It seems to me that, in every culture, I come across a chapter headed ‘Wisdom.’ And then I know exactly what is going to follow: ‘Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.’
3 December 2020 Joseph Prince As you walk in God’s divine wisdom, you will surely begin to see a greater measure of victory and good success in your life.
3 December 2020 Charles Inglis To comprehend the Wisdom of this Injunction the better, and explain the Duty before us, it should be considered, that Government is the only Means by which human Happiness can be attained.
3 December 2020 Liz Carpenter Instead of looking at life as a narrowing funnel, we can see it ever widening to choose the things we want to do, to take the wisdom we’ve learned and create something.
3 December 2020 Akhenaton To be satisfied with a little, is the greatest wisdom and he that increaseth his riches, increaseth his cares but a contented mind is a hidden treasure, and trouble findeth it not.
3 December 2020 Bell Hooks Many spiritual teachers – in Buddhism, in Islam – have talked about first-hand experience of the world as an important part of the path to wisdom, to enlightenment.
3 December 2020 Brendan Coyle I left school at 16 but I wish I’d gone to university – I think I would have studied English literature. I had a knack for that. But I don’t think you have the kind of wisdom at 16 to make that decision.
3 December 2020 Robert Frost The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom… in a clarification of life – not necessarily a great clarification, such as sects and cults are founded on, but in a momentary stay against confusion.
3 December 2020 Thomas Huxley In science, as in art, and, as I believe, in every other sphere of human activity, there may be wisdom in a multitude of counsellors, but it is only in one or two of them.
3 December 2020 Honore de Balzac Wisdom is that apprehension of heavenly things to which the spirit rises through love.
3 December 2020 Charles Spurgeon Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.
3 December 2020 Mary Chapin Carpenter As far as feeling freedom in my career now versus five years ago… I think if I feel any more free it’s simply because of the experiences that I’ve had, and the wisdom I’ve accumulated from that time.
3 December 2020 Sidney Lanier Virtues are acquired through endeavor, which rests wholly upon yourself.
