“Evil can be a teacher, if you look at the wisdom of its negative power.”“- Tom Brown, Jr.” Related Quotes “The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom to serve all, but love only one.”– Honore de Balzac “Surely, God on high has not refused to give us enough wisdom to find ways to bring us an improvement in relations between the two great nations on earth.”– Mikhail Gorbachev “I feel increasingly like age is very irrelevant. Quite often, cynicism is confused with wisdom, and my scorn is confused with a knowing, which I don’t have.”– Laura Marling