The final wisdom of life requires not the annulment of incongruity but the achievement of serenity within and above it. — Reinhold Niebuhr
The founding fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents. — John Updike
After all my possessions had been burned, God gave me the wisdom to return to jerusalem. — Shmuel Yosef Agnon
Wisdom we know is the knowledge of good and evil, not the strength to choose between the two. — John Cheever
Bill clinton brought insight wisdom and determination to bear on the issues that he addressed. — Jimmy Carter
Every speaker has a mouth; an arrangement rather neat. Sometimes it’s filled with wisdom. — Robert Orben
Finding impacted wisdom teeth 15,000 years ago indicates the human diet might have already changed — Robert Martin
Wisdom consists not so much in knowing what to do in the ultimate as knowing what to do next. — Herbert Hoover
At sixty, I know little more about wisdom than I did at thirty, but I know a great deal more about folly. — Mason Cooley
The visible mark of extraordinary wisdom and power appear so plainly in all the works of creation. — John Locke
I sit beside my lonely fire and pray for wisdom yet: for calmness to remember or courage to forget. — Charles Hamilton Aide
One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know. — John Kenneth Galbraith
A great memory is never made synonymous with wisdom, any more than a dictionary would be called a treatise. — John Henry Newman
True wisdom consists in not departing from nature and in molding our conduct according to her laws and model. — Seneca the Younger
If wisdom were offered me with this restriction, that I should keep it close and not communicate it, I would refuse the gift. — Seneca the Younger
Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom. — Marcus Tullius Cicero