Wisdom Quotes
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Learn the Arabic language; it will sharpen your wisdom.
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Justice is peculiarly indispensable to nations. The unjust State is doomed of God to calamity and ruin. This is the teaching of the Eternal Wisdom and of history.
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No one who cooks, cooks alone. Even at her most solitary, a cook in the kitchen is surrounded by generations of cooks past, the advice and menus of cooks present, and the wisdom of cookbook writers.
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I don't know that you're able to measure your aggregate wisdom as you go through life. I can't say that I ever feel that I'm sitting on top of a growing mound of wisdom.
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Wisdom precludes boldness.
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In the age of strategy, advantage flowed from owning resources. In the age of wisdom, it flows from seeding and connecting them.
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My country has in its wisdom contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived; and as I can do neither good nor evil, I must be borne away by others and meet the common fate.
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I am not biased against the rich because they are rich, but the most lively people are those without money who would like to have some
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A proverb is the wisdom of many and the wit of one.
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You can have no wise laws nor free enforcement of wise laws unless there is free expression of the wisdom of the people -- and, alas, their folly with it. But if there is freedom, folly will die of its own poison, and the wisdom will survive.
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Where is there a boy to whom the call of the wild and the open road does not appeal?
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It is true that the successful quest for wisdom might lead to the result that wisdom is not the one thing needful. But this result would owe its relevance to the fact that it is the result of the quest for wisdom: the very disavowal of reason must be reasonable disavowal.
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When you want wisdom and insight as badly as you want to breathe, it is then you shall have it.
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Scouting is a man's job cut down to a boy's size.
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O, mighty, divinely delimited wisdom of walls, boundaries! I is perhaps the most magnificent of all inventions. Man ceased to be a wild animal only when he build the first wall. Men ceased to be a wild man only when we built the Green Wall, only when, by means of that wall, we isolated our perfect machine world from the irrational, ugly world of trees, birds, and animals.
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He brought his malformed wisdom, his pool-hall, locker-room, joke-book wisdom to the front.
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A great memory is never made synonymous with wisdom, any more than a dictionary would be called a treatise.
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A man carries out suggestions the more wholeheartedly when he understands their aim.
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We're being treated to the wisdom of some puffed up, little fart. Doing exactly what I used to do, pretensions to anarchy and art.
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Wisdom is not communicable. The wisdom which a wise man tries to communicate always sounds foolish.
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There is no knowledge, no light, no wisdom that you are in possession of, but what you have received it from some source.
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An owl is traditionally a symbol of wisdom, so we are neither doves nor hawks but owls, and we are vigilant when others are resting.
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Because of my upbringing, I believe in things like limited government, fiscal responsibility and personal accountability. I believe in the wisdom of our founders and the sanctity of our Constitution.
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Scouting is a game for boys under the leadership of boys under the direction of a man.
