Pastoral Resources

The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.

Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.

To suppose more than one supreme Source of infinite wisdom, power, and all perfections, is to assert that there is no supreme Being in existence.

Strength and wisdom are not opposing values.

Conventional wisdom holds that setting a timetable for getting American troops out of Iraq would be a mistake.

The extreme limit of wisdom, that's what the public calls madness.

I chose Sony Classics, not just because of their practical experience, not just because of their wisdom in marketing, but mainly because of their integrity.

Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.

Knowledge is the consequence of time, and multitude of days are fittest to teach wisdom.

Moderation is the inseparable companion of wisdom, but with it genius has not even a nodding acquaintance.

Doubt is the vestibule through which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom.

They are few in the midst of an overwhelming mass of brute force, and their submission is wisdom; but for a nation like England to submit to be robbed by any invader who chooses to visit her shores seemed to me to be nonsense.

Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men.

There are three methods to gaining wisdom. The first is reflection, which is the highest. The second is limitation, which is the easiest. The third is experience, which is the bitterest.

They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.

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.

Purity engenders Wisdom, Passion avarice, and Ignorance folly, infatuation and darkness.

There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives.

Losing faith in your own singularity is the start of wisdom, I suppose; also the first announcement of death.

At sixty, I know little more about wisdom than I did at thirty, but I know a great deal more about folly.