“Knowledge is a process of piling up facts wisdom lies in their simplification.”
– Martin Henry Fischer
“Wisdom denotes the pursuing of the best ends by the best means.”
– Francis Hutcheson
“The result showed the wisdom of your orders.”
– John Bigelow
“This ceremony and the intellectual aura associated with the Nobel Prizes have grown from the wisdom of a practical chemist who wrote a remarkable will.”
– Stanford Moore
“I actually think with age comes some level of wisdom.”
– Nina Totenberg
“A proverb is the wisdom of many and the wit of one.”
– Lord John Russell
“Yale is a crucible in American life for the accommodation of intellectual achievement, of wisdom, of refinement, with the democratic ideals of openness, of social justice and of equal opportunity.”
“- Benno C. Schmidt, Jr.”
“I don’t want to put a pause on the rest of my life I’m really enjoying getting older and the wisdom that comes from that.”
– Rosemarie DeWitt
“I chose Sony Classics, not just because of their practical experience, not just because of their wisdom in marketing, but mainly because of their integrity.”
– Arthur Cohn
“If the highest things are unknowable, then the highest capacity or virtue of man cannot be theoretical wisdom.”
– Leo Strauss
“Knowledge is the consequence of time, and multitude of days are fittest to teach wisdom.”
– Jeremy Collier
“What could be more lonely than to be enveloped in silence, to be the last of your people to speak your native tongue, to have no way to pass on the wisdom of the elders, to anticipate the promise of the children. This tragic fate is indeed the plight of someone somewhere roughly every two weeks.”
– Wade Davis
“Books give not wisdom where none was before. But where some is, there reading makes it more.”
– Elizabeth Hardwick
“We don’t pray for the land. We pray for the humans, all humans… starting with the president, Mohammed Morsi, and all officials, and for God to give everyone wisdom and responsibility to manage the affairs of this country and its people in true Egyptian spirit.”
– Pope Theodoros II
“And it is no less true, that personal security and private property rest entirely upon the wisdom, the stability, and the integrity of the courts of justice.”
– Joseph Story
“Hatred is corrosive of a person’s wisdom and conscience the mentality of enmity can poison a nation’s spirit, instigate brutal life and death struggles, destroy a society’s tolerance and humanity, and block a nation’s progress to freedom and democracy.”
– Liu Xiaobo
“Wisdom sails with wind and time.”
– John Florio
“I think in conventional magazine wisdom, you need to have a redesign every decade or so.”
– Timothy White
“To avoid entangling alliances has been a maxim of our policy ever since the days of Washington, and its wisdom no one will attempt to dispute.”
– James Buchanan
“One reason the human race has such a low opinion of itself is that it gets so much of its wisdom from writers.”
– Wilfrid Sheed
“Your law may be perfect, your knowledge of human affairs may be such as to enable you to apply it with wisdom and skill, and yet without individual acquaintance with men, their haunts and habits, the pursuit of the profession becomes difficult, slow, and expensive.”
– William Dunbar
“As an instrument for practical action, law is responsive to the wisdom of its time, which may be wrong, but it carries forward, sometimes in opposition to this wisdom or passion, a memory of received values.”
– Edward Levi
“In regard of the rich grace and wisdom of his love toward his people for who sees not, but that it is a curse to be unready as these foolish virgins, who were therefore shut out.”
– Thomas Shepard
“And, if we have any evidence that the wisdom which formed the plan is in the man, we have the very same evidence, that the power which executed it is in him also.”
– Thomas Reid
“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.”
– Randy Forbes
“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.”
– Liz Carpenter
“I love the music of Lauryn Hill and Erykah Badu and more recently the music of Laura Marling. All these women share a strength and a wisdom in their voices and music that really makes me want to make music and sing.”
– Lianne La Havas
“Memory is not wisdom idiots can by rote repeat volumes. Yet what is wisdom without memory?”
– Martin Farquhar Tupper
“India is known for its sobriety and wisdom, balanced and sensible thinking. We need strong institutions and we need good governance in the country.”
– Pratibha Patil
“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.”
– Peter Hammill