Wisdom and good governance require more than the consistent application
of abstract principles.
-Theodore Dalrymple
Wisdom and understanding can only become the possession of individual
men by travelling the old road of observation, attention, perseverance,
and industry.
-Samuel Smiles
Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave
to laugh, and too self-ful to seek other than itself.
-Kahlil
Gibran
Wisdom comes by disillusionment.
-George Santayana
Wisdom comes not from reason but from love.
-André Gide
Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences.
-Norman
Cousins
Wisdom demands a new orientation of science and technology towards the
organic, the gentle, the non-violent, the elegant and beautiful.
-E.F.
Schumacher
Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up
all by itself.
-Tom Wilson
Wisdom is a kind of knowledge. It is knowledge of the nature, career,
and consequences of human values.
-Sidney Hook
Wisdom is essential in a president, the appearance of wisdom will do in
a candidate.
-Eric Sevareid
Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to
acquire it.
-Albert Einstein
Wisdom is not acquired save as the result of investigation.
-Sara
Teasdale
Wisdom is oft-times nearer when we stoop
Than when we soar.
-William Wordsworth
Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use.
-Thomas
J. Watson
Wisdom is the quality that keeps you from getting into situations where
you need it.
-Doug Larson
Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have
preferred to talk.
-Doug Larson
Wisdom is the strength of the weak.
-Joseph Joubert
Wisdom is what's left after we've run out of personal opinions.
-Cullen
Hightower
Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely
because it comes late.
-Felix Frankfurter
Wisdom we know is the knowledge of good and evil, not the strength to
choose between the two.
-John Cheever
Wisdom... is knowing what you have to accept.
-Wallace Stegner
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