Wisdom Quotes

To keep your secret is wisdom; to expect others to keep it is folly.
William Samuel Johnson

Others, Keep, Secret

But in its final creation it was not the part of the Father's power to fail as though exhausted. It was not the part of His wisdom to waver in a needful matter through poverty of counsel.
Giovanni Pico della Mirandola

Power, Father, Through

But I do think it's important to remember that writers do not have a monopoly of wisdom on their books. They can be wrong about their own books, they can often learn about their own books.
China Mieville

Important, Remember, Wrong

Lord, give us the wisdom to utter words that are gentle and tender, for tomorrow we may have to eat them.
Mo Udall

Tomorrow, May, Words

Nobility of spirit has more to do with simplicity than ostentation, wisdom rather than wealth, commitment rather than ambition.
Riccardo Muti

Ambition, Rather, Spirit

In garden arrangement, as in all other kinds of decorative work, one has not only to acquire a knowledge of what to do, but also to gain some wisdom in perceiving what it is well to let alone.
Gertrude Jekyll

Work, Knowledge, Alone

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

Mother, Country, Free

Every indication of wisdom, taken from the effect, is equally an indication of power to execute what wisdom planned.
Thomas Reid

Power, Taken, Effect

Pessimism is only the name that men of weak nerves give to wisdom.
Bernard De Voto

Men, Give, Weak

He whose wisdom cannot help him, gets no good from being wise.
Quintus Ennius

Good, Wise, Help

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

Life, Time, Cannot

Words of wisdom are spoken by children at least as often as scientists.
James Newman

Children, Words, Often

Beauty, the eternal Spouse of the Wisdom of God and Angel of his Presence thru' all creation.
Robert Bridges

Beauty, God, Creation

Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.
Lactantius

Fear, Cannot, Present

Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.
Octavio Paz

Change, Two, Between

What I lack in energy, I have in wisdom.
Marcia Cross

I have tried at every point to seek God's wisdom on the decisions I made, and I made it my business to speak up on behalf of the things God tells us are important to Him.
Jesse Helms

God, Business, Important

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

Change, Good, God

We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.
Stephen Vincent Benet

A monarchy conducted with infinite wisdom and infinite benevolence is the most perfect of all possible governments.
Ezra Stiles

Perfect, Possible, Infinite

In justice to human society it may perhaps be said of almost all the polities and civil institutions in the world, however imperfect, that they have been founded in and carried on with very considerable wisdom.
Ezra Stiles

Society, Justice, Human

The constitutions of Maryland and New York are founded in higher wisdom.
Ezra Stiles

York, Higher, Founded

Conventional wisdom notwithstanding, there is no reason either in football or in poetry why the two should not meet in a man's life if he has the weight and cares about the words.
Archibald MacLeish

Life, Poetry, Football

You know, it's sort of common wisdom among New York publishers that short story collections don't make money.
Chad Harbach

Money, Short, Story

Wisdom and goodness are twin-born, one heart must hold both sisters, never seen apart.
William Dean Howells

Heart, Both, Seen

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