It is costly wisdom that is bought by experience. – Roger Ascham
We have heeded no wisdom offering guidance. – Dora Russell
Mainstream media tend to just mouth the conventional wisdom, to see everything through the filter of right and left. – Arianna Huffington
Pain is the doorway to wisdom and to truth. – Keith Miller
Dr. Johnson has said that the chief glory of a country arises from its authors. But then that is only as they are oracles of wisdom unless they teach virtue, they are more worthy of a halter than of the laurel. – Jane Porter
I covered my face because they had taken my wisdom teeth out. – Josh Brolin
To keep your secret is wisdom to expect others to keep it is folly. – William Samuel Johnson
Lord, give us the wisdom to utter words that are gentle and tender, for tomorrow we may have to eat them. – Mo Udall
Nobility of spirit has more to do with simplicity than ostentation, wisdom rather than wealth, commitment rather than ambition. – Riccardo Muti
This land, which we have watered with our tears and our blood, is now our mother country, and we are well satisfied to stay where wisdom abounds and gospel is free. – Richard V. Allen
Every indication of wisdom, taken from the effect, is equally an indication of power to execute what wisdom planned. – Thomas Reid
Pessimism is only the name that men of weak nerves give to wisdom. – Bernard De Voto
He whose wisdom cannot help him, gets no good from being wise. – Quintus Ennius
Now it is time to turn to an older wisdom that, while respecting material comfort and security as a basic right of all, also recognises that many of the most valuable things in life cannot be measured. – Michael D. Higgins
Words of wisdom are spoken by children at least as often as scientists. – James Newman
Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be. – Lactantius
Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two. – Octavio Paz
What I lack in energy, I have in wisdom. – Marcia Cross
But the Wisdom of God, which is His only-begotten Son, being in all respects incapable of change or alteration, and every good quality in Him being essential, and such as cannot be changed and converted, His glory is therefore declared to be pure and sincere. – Origen
We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom. – Stephen Vincent Benet
