No party has a monopoly on wisdom. No democracy works without compromise. But when Governor Romney and his allies in Congress tell us we can somehow lower our deficit by spending trillions more on new tax breaks for the wealthy - well, you do the math. I refuse to go along with that. And as long as I'm President, I never will. Barack Obama on wisdom
Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance. H. L. Mencken on wisdom
There are three classes of men lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain. Plato on wisdom
Cunning... is but the low mimic of wisdom. Plato on wisdom
Data is not information, information is not knowledge, knowledge is not understanding, understanding is not wisdom. Clifford Stoll on wisdom
Wisdom alone is the science of other sciences. Plato on wisdom
Kisses are a better fate than wisdom. e. e. cummings on wisdom
Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them in their mediocrity. Robert Louis Stevenson on wisdom
In life, all good things come hard, but wisdom is the hardest to come by. Lucille Ball on wisdom
Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that deceives them. Francois de La Rochefoucauld on wisdom
Who in their infinite wisdom decreed that Little League uniforms be white? Certainly not a mother. Erma Bombeck on wisdom
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. Edmund Burke on wisdom
God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other. Reinhold Niebuhr on wisdom
Perhaps religious conscience upsets the designs of those who feel that the highest wisdom and authority comes from government. But from the beginning, this nation trusted in God, not man. Religious liberty is the first freedom in our Constitution. Mitt Romney on wisdom
Always keep your mind as bright and clear as the vast sky, the great ocean, and the highest peak, empty of all thoughts. Always keep your body filled with light and heat. Fill yourself with the power of wisdom and enlightenment. Morihei Ueshiba on wisdom
Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance. Francis of Assisi on wisdom
Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of facts within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity. Calvin Coolidge on wisdom
Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience. H. L. Mencken on wisdom
Because in the school of the Spirit man learns wisdom through humility, knowledge by forgetting, how to speak by silence, how to live by dying. Johannes Tauler on wisdom
Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom. Bertrand Russell on wisdom