Wisdom Quotes - page 100

To history, until yesterday, Halifax was the arch-appeaser. This, it is now recognised, was a mistake. His rôle, however, was complicated. In these pages he is not the man who stopped the rot, but the embodiment of Conservative wisdom who decided that Hitler must be obstructed because Labour could not otherwise be resisted. (Maurice Cowling)
Books give not wisdom where was none before, But where some is, there reading makes it more. View quote
John Harington (inventor)
The amity that wisdom knits not, folly may easily untie. View quote
William Shakespeare
Withal I did infer your lineaments, Being the right idea of your father, Both in your form and nobleness of mind; Laid open all your victories in Scotland, Your discipline in war, wisdom in peace, Your bounty, virtue, fair humility; Indeed, left nothing fitting for your purpose Untouch'd or slightly handled in discourse. View quote
William Shakespeare
I love him for his sake; And yet I know him a notorious liar, Think him a great way fool, solely a coward; Yet these fix'd evils sit so fit in him That they take place when virtue's steely bones Looks bleak i' th' cold wind; withal, full oft we see Cold wisdom waiting on superfluous folly. View quote
William Shakespeare
Wisdom and goodness to the vile seem vile Filths savour but themselves. View quote
William Shakespeare
True philosophy is a living wisdom, for which there is no death. View quote
Ernst, Baron von Feuchtersleben
I actually think with age comes some level of wisdom. View quote
Nina Totenberg
A lot of common wisdom like that isn't just mistaken, it's anti-epistemology, it's systematically wrong. Every rule of rationality that tells you how to find the truth, there's someone out there who needs you to believe the opposite. If you once tell a lie, the truth is ever after your enemy; and there's a lot of people out there telling lies. View quote
Eliezer Yudkowsky
One tool that is used most and has the greatest misuse of power is looks, and another tool that is used least and has the least desire for power is wisdom. View quote
Eugene J. Martin
God in His answers to prayer often says 'Yes.' Sometimes He says 'Wait.' Often He says 'No.' In any case, His will is done, and true faith is to believe that what happened has happened for the best. If one does not take that attitude, he is setting his personal desire against the wisdom of God. Oftentimes we confuse with faith merely that which we desire. (Norman Vincent Peale)
He never invested his whole moral capital in a man, a book, or a cause, but treasured up wisdom wherever it could be picked up, always with scrupulous acknowledgment. View quote
Jacques Barzun
Press on! If Fortune play thee false To-day, tomorrow she'll be true; Whom now she sinks she now exalts, Taking old gifts and granting new, The wisdom of the present hour Makes up the follies past and gone; To weakness, strength succeeds, and power From frailty springs! Press on, press on! View quote
Park Benjamin, Sr.
The science of human nature belongs to people who are not afraid to live independent lives. They alone have the flexible access to experience which can bring human wisdom and strength into being, and once these assets exist, they will send forth their influence with an authority that cannot be resisted, unmindful of artificial man made boundaries, reaching anywhere in the world. View quote
Paul Rosenfels
Every evil is some good spelt backwards, and in it the wise know how to read Wisdom. View quote
Coventry Patmore
The day knowledge was preferred to wisdom and mere usefulness to beauty. . . . Only a moral revolution -- not a social or a political revolution -- only a moral revolution would lead man back to his lost truth. View quote
Simone de Beauvoir
The event proves well the wisdom of her [Phyllis'] course. View quote
Ovid
Illness is the most heeded of doctors to goodness and wisdom we only make promises pain we obey. View quote
Marcel Proust
Laughter without a tinge of philosophy is but a sneeze of humor. Genuine humor is replete with wisdom. View quote
Mark Twain
The perfection of wisdom, and the end of true philosophy is to proportion our wants to our possessions, our ambitions to our capacities, we will then be a happy and a virtuous people. View quote
Mark Twain
By and by when each nation has 20,000 battleships and 5,000,000 soldiers we shall all be safe and the wisdom of statesmanship will stand confirmed. (Mark Twain)
A man never reaches that dizzy height of wisdom that he can no longer be lead by the nose. View quote
Mark Twain
He gossips habitually he lacks the common wisdom to keep still that deadly enemy of man, his own tongue. View quote
Mark Twain
It is by the fortune of God that, in this country, we have three benefits freedom of speech, freedom of thought, and the wisdom never to use either. View quote
Mark Twain
We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it -- and stop there lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove-lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove-lid again -- and that is well but also she will never sit. View quote
Mark Twain