But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.
We learned in World War II that no single nation holds a monopoly on wisdom, morality or right to power, but that we must fight for the weak and promote democracy.
Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom.
A short saying often contains much wisdom.
Kisses are a better fate than wisdom.
There's the conventional wisdom, of which I have none, where you get a record deal, you get a publicist, you get a campaign, and you do the tour, but none of that adds up to things like nuance and subtlety and dynamic.
Come, 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.
The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.
However, I must not indulge in homespun wisdom here before so distinguished an assembly, especially as I am to be followed by a representative of science.
Without wisdom, the future has no meaning, no valuable purpose.
Rightly defined philosophy is simply the love of wisdom.
A proverb is the wisdom of many and the wit of one.
In youth and beauty, wisdom is but rare!
The seven wise men of Greece, so famous for their wisdom all the world over, acquired all that fame, each of them, by a single sentence consisting of two or three words.
Purity engenders Wisdom, Passion avarice, and Ignorance folly, infatuation and darkness.
I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge.
To avoid entangling alliances has been a maxim of our policy ever since the days of Washington, and its wisdom no one will attempt to dispute.
Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever; no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself; no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself.
Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is knowing not to put it in a fruit salad.
India and China have not shied away from addressing boundary questions, have wisdom to find a fair and mutually acceptable solution... We have been able to put all issues on the table.
I know that inner wisdom is more precious than wealth. The more you spend it, the more you gain.
Words of wisdom are spoken by children at least as often as scientists.
For the subtlest folly proceeds from the subtlest wisdom.
God the Father, the supreme Architect, had already built this cosmic home we behold, the most sacred temple of His godhead, by the laws of His mysterious wisdom.
The left has come to regard common sense - the traditional wisdom and folkways of the community - as an obstacle to progress and enlightenment.
Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late.
Wisdom, prudence, forethought, these are essential. But not second to these that noble courage which adventures the right, and leaves the consequences to God.
The key to wisdom is this - constant and frequent questioning, for by doubting we are led to question and by questioning we arrive at the truth.
The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation.
If your writing collides with the conventional wisdom, there's going to be some kind of friction.
Let my skin and sinews and bones dry up, together with all the flesh and blood of my body! I welcome it! But I will not move from this spot until I have attained the supreme and final wisdom.
What I like about graduation speeches is that they're an opportunity for someone to make sense of their life and to impart that wisdom to someone else. It's like a sanctioned self-help moment.
Ignorance and bungling with love are better than wisdom and skill without.
I knew that I had it tough compared to children around me. But I felt like I needed it. I think I had the wisdom as a child to know that it would help me later on.
Pessimism is only the name that men of weak nerves give to wisdom.
Books should to one of these fours ends conduce, for wisdom, piety, delight, or use.
