Wisdom and understanding can only become the possession of individual men by travelling the old road of observation, attention, perseverance, and industry. – Samuel Smiles
It is almost everywhere the case that soon after it is begotten the greater part of human wisdom is laid to rest in repositories. – Georg C. Lichtenberg
Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next. – Herbert Hoover
Wisdom consists not so much in knowing what to do in the ultimate as knowing what to do next. – Herbert Hoover
All free governments are managed by the combined wisdom and folly of the people. – James A. Garfield
In my own personal life, God plays a great role in the risk, because I pray before I go into the operating room for every case, and I ask him to give me wisdom, to help me to know what to do – and not only for operating, but for everything. – Benjamin Carson
No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool. Writers, alas, have to be fools in public, while the rest of the human race can cover its tracks. – Erica Jong
My mother is a great source of advice and wisdom and consolation for me. – Katherine Heigl
Sometimes one likes foolish people for their folly, better than wise people for their wisdom. – Elizabeth Gaskell
The Divine wisdom has given us prayer, not as a means whereby to obtain the good things of earth, but as a means whereby we learn to do without them not as a means whereby we escape evil, but as a means whereby we become strong to meet it. – Frederick William Robertson
The left has come to regard common sense – the traditional wisdom and folkways of the community – as an obstacle to progress and enlightenment. – Christopher Lasch
Saudi Arabia is a puritanical state that claims a monopoly of wisdom and virtue. – James Buchan
Purity engenders Wisdom, Passion avarice, and Ignorance folly, infatuation and darkness. – Cyril Connolly
Vanity can easily overtake wisdom. It usually overtakes common sense. – Julian Casablancas
Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency. – John Updike
I acknowledge the privilege of being alive in a human body at this moment, endowed with senses, memories, emotions, thoughts, and the space of mind in its wisdom aspect. – Alex Grey
It has become part of the accepted wisdom to say that the twentieth century was the century of physics and the twenty-first century will be the century of biology. – Freeman Dyson
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. – Jonathan Sacks
The most excellent and divine counsel, the best and most profitable advertisement of all others, but the least practiced, is to study and learn how to know ourselves. This is the foundation of wisdom and the highway to whatever is good. – Pierre Charron
If an idea is indeed sensible, it will eventually become just part of the accepted wisdom. – Nigel Farage
