Wisdom outweighs any wealth.
SophoclesThere are three classes of men, lovers of wisdom lovers of honor and lovers of gain.
PlatoIt was perhaps one of those cases in which advice is good or bad only as the event decides.
Jane AustenWisdom alone is the science of other sciences.
PlatoCome come leave business to idlers and wisdom to fools: they have need of 'em: wit be my faculty and pleasure my occupation and let father Time shake his glass.
William CongreveI was never tired of listening to his wisdom or imparting my own.
Winston ChurchillNo party has a monopoly on wisdom. No democracy works without compromise. But when Governor Romney and his allies in Congress tell us we can somehow lower our deficit by spending trillions more on new tax breaks for the wealthy - well you do the math. I refuse to go along with that. And as long as I'm President I never will.
Barack ObamaThere is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so, but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.
Francis BaconGod give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed courage to change the things which should be changed and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other.
Reinhold NiebuhrInnocence dwells with wisdom but never with ignorance
William BlakeIt is good even for old men to learn wisdom.
AeschylusHold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles.
ConfuciusPractice is as important for confirming one in wisdom as reading is important for confirming one in knowledge.
Sai BabaThe wrath of the lion is the wisdom of God.
William BlakeThe function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.
Marcus Tullius CiceroDesire destroys devotion, anger destroys wisdom, greed destroys work - hence these bad qualities must be sacrificed. With good and sweet words, keeping desires under check and control (for ultimate removal) one should start on the path of sacrifice.
Sai BabaHe that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils: for Time is the greatest innovator: and if Time of course alter things to the worse and wisdom and counsel shall not alter them to the better what shall be the end?.
Francis BaconIt would be a great reform in politics if wisdom could be made to spread as easily and rapidly as folly.
Winston ChurchillWisdom comes alone through suffering.
AeschylusMan has boyhood adolescence youth middle age and senescence as stages of growth, there are also corresponding stages in the growth of wisdom in him.
Sai BabaIn science as in art and as I believe in every other sphere of human activity there may be wisdom in a multitude of counsellors but it is only in one or two of them.
Thomas HuxleyThe invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.
Ralph Waldo EmersonKnowledge is proud that it knows so much, wisdom is humble that it knows no more.
William CowperThe fire of hatred that was burning in them was cooled, and darkness gave place to the dawn of wisdom. The sky showered raindrops to soften the earth and lay down dust. How can the lament operate against the Divine Will?
Sai BabaAs I was walking among the fires of Hell delighted with the enjoyments of Genius, which to Angels look like torment and insanity, I collected some of their Proverbs thinking that, as the sayings used in a nation mark its character, so the Proverbs of Hell show the nature of Infernal wisdom better than any description of buildings or garments.
William BlakeWhere is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?
T. S. EliotWisdom is that apprehension of heavenly things to which the spirit rises through love.
Honore de BalzacRightly defined philosophy is simply the love of wisdom.
Marcus Tullius CiceroIn my definition of consciousness consciousness is the same thing as life. What wisdom traditions also call spirit.
Deepak ChopraThe only medicine for suffering crime and all other woes of mankind is wisdom. Teach a man to read and write and you have put into his hands the great keys of the wisdom box. But it is quite another thing to open the box.
Thomas HuxleyBefore we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThey whom truth and wisdom lead can gather honey from a weed.
William CowperWhere there is charity and wisdom there is neither fear nor ignorance. Where there is patience and humility there is neither anger nor vexation. Where there is poverty and joy there is neither greed nor avarice. Where there is peace and meditation there is neither anxiety nor doubt.
Francis of AssisiThe war... was an unnecessary condition of affairs and might have been avoided if forebearance and wisdom had been practiced on both sides.
Robert E. LeeThe fear and anxiety that infect humanity today are the results of this degradation of values, this ignorance of what is of significance and what is not, this want of faith in what the elders and sages have handed down as the wisdom of ages. People prefer what is pleasing to what is beneficial.
Sai Baba