There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy. – Friedrich Nietzsche
Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live. – Robert Kennedy
Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance. – H. L. Mencken
Cunning… is but the low mimic of wisdom. – Plato
Kisses are a better fate than wisdom. – e. e. cummings
Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them in their mediocrity. – Robert Louis Stevenson
But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint. – Edmund Burke
In order to have wisdom we must have ignorance. – Theodore Dreiser
Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life – in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk and to make our words and actions all of a color. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young. – Rabindranath Tagore
I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance. – Thomas Carlyle
The older I get the more wisdom I find in the ancient rule of taking first things first. A process which often reduces the most complex human problem to a manageable proportion. – Dwight D. Eisenhower
I learned some valuable lessons about the legislative process, the importance of bipartisan cooperation and the wisdom of taking small steps to get a big job done. – Hillary Clinton
Earthly wisdom is doing what comes naturally. Godly wisdom is doing what the Holy Spirit compels us to do. – Charles Stanley
I am thinking of taking a fifth wife. Why not? Solomon had a thousand wives and he is a synonym for wisdom. – John Barrymore
We must expect reverses, even defeats. They are sent to teach us wisdom and prudence, to call forth greater energies, and to prevent our falling into greater disasters. – Robert E. Lee
Rightly defined philosophy is simply the love of wisdom. – Marcus Tullius Cicero
Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise. – Samuel Johnson
The hours of folly are measured by the clock but of wisdom, no clock can measure. – William Blake
If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise. – William Butler Yeats
