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Wednesday, July 3rd, 2024
the Week of Proper 8 / Ordinary 13
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Quotations regarding 'Wisdom'

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There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart.
Charles Dickens, English Novelist (1812-1870)
The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.
Benjamin Disraeli, British Statesman (1804-1881)
What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes?
Norman Douglas, British Writer (1868-1952)
The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living, which are to be desired when dying.
Norman Douglas, British Writer (1868-1952)
The pine stays green in winter... wisdom in hardship.
Norman Douglas, British Writer (1868-1952)
We do not sit as a superlegislature to weigh the wisdom of legislation.
William O. Douglas, American Judge (1898-1980)
In order to have wisdom we must have ignorance.
Theodore Dreiser, American Novelist (1871-1945)
I have no agenda except to be funny. Neither I or the writers profess to offer any worldly wisdom.
Julia Louis Dreyfus, American Actress (1961-  )
All human wisdom is summed up in two words; wait and hope.
Alexandre Dumas, French Dramatist (1802-1870)
Your law may be perfect, your knowledge of human affairs may be such as to enable you to apply it with wisdom and skill, and yet without individual acquaintance with men, their haunts and habits, the pursuit of the profession becomes difficult, slow, and expensive.
William Dunbar, Scottish Poet
Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.
Will Durant, American Historian (1885-1981)
Spending two years on my uncle's ranch in Montana as a young man gave me the wisdom and the thrust to do westerns.
Robert Duvall, American Actor (1931-  )
Lord, bless me with the ability to achieve all that I can, and the wisdom to realize it doesn't all have to be by tomorrow!
William Eardley IV, American Public Servant (1964-  )
The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.
Albert Einstein, German Physicist (1879-1955)
The older I get the more wisdom I find in the ancient rule of taking first things first. A process which often reduces the most complex human problem to a manageable proportion.
Dwight D. Eisenhower, American President (1890-1969)
Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?
T. S. Eliot, American Poet (1888-1965)
More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.
George Eliot, British Author (1819-1880)
In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause.
George Eliot, British Author (1819-1880)
Men who know themselves are no longer fools. They stand on the threshold of the door of Wisdom.
Henry Ellis, British Psychologist (1859-  )
The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Poet (1803-1882)
 
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