3 December 2020 Greg Walden A man of strength and wisdom, John Paul became an inspiration to generations of both Catholics and non-Catholics throughout the world by encouraging freedom, promoting peace and respecting all faiths.
3 December 2020 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago.
3 December 2020 Herbie Hancock The thing that we possess, that machines don’t, is the ability to exhibit wisdom.
3 December 2020 Amy Grant There’s a beauty to wisdom and experience that cannot be faked. It’s impossible to be mature without having lived.
3 December 2020 Jimmy Carr After a gig I always head back to the hotel, remembering granny’s words of wisdom. I cancel the late-night pizza and watch the Jonathan Ross show instead.
3 December 2020 Patricia Richardson They see me as being this Super Mom on TV who also can more than handle a difficult husband, and they assume I’m going to be just full of wisdom as a mother and wife myself.
3 December 2020 Confucius Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men.
3 December 2020 Maurice Maeterlinck It is not from reason that justice springs, but goodness is born of wisdom.
3 December 2020 Vera Wang I always see where I didn’t do things the right way. I only see the heavy lifting. That’s a bit of my wisdom, if you want to call it that.
3 December 2020 Robert Bridges Beauty, the eternal Spouse of the Wisdom of God and Angel of his Presence thru’ all creation.
3 December 2020 Shakti Gawain We live in a culture that doesn’t acknowledge or validate human intuition and doesn’t encourage us to rely on our intuitive wisdom.
3 December 2020 Milan Kundera The stupidity of people comes from having an answer for everything. The wisdom of the novel comes from having a question for everything.
3 December 2020 Jonathan Sacks Focus on the mind and the soul. Read. Study. Enrol in a course of lectures. Pray. Become a member of a religious congregation. Study the Bible or other ancient works of wisdom.
3 December 2020 Drew Curtis The ‘wisdom of the crowds’ is the most ridiculous statement I’ve heard in my life. Crowds are dumb.
3 December 2020 Chris Christie Now our founding fathers had the wisdom to know that social acceptance and popularity were fleeing, and that this country’s principles needed to be rooted in strengths greater than the passions and the emotions of the times.
3 December 2020 Peter Hammill I continue to believe, contrary to the given wisdom, that it’s more interesting to have an album – or, indeed, an individual song – which has variety rather than homogeneity.
3 December 2020 Leo Strauss If the highest things are unknowable, then the highest capacity or virtue of man cannot be theoretical wisdom.
3 December 2020 Mary Astell The Relation we bear to the Wisdom of the Father, the Son of His Love, gives us indeed a dignity which otherwise we have no pretence to. It makes us something, something considerable even in God’s Eyes.
3 December 2020 William Whitehead Wisdom alone is true ambition’s aim, wisdom the source of virtue, and of fame, obtained with labour, for mankind employed, and then, when most you share it, best enjoyed.
3 December 2020 Lucius Annaeus Seneca Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life – in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk and to make our words and actions all of a color.
