And I love that even in the toughest moments, when we're all sweating it - when we're worried that the bill won't pass, and it seems like all is lost - Barack never lets himself get distracted by the chatter and the noise. Just like his grandmother, he just keeps getting up and moving forward... with patience and wisdom, and courage and grace. Michelle Obama on wisdom
What we call wisdom is the result of all the wisdom of past ages. Our best institutions are like young trees growing upon the roots of the old trunks that have crumbled away. Henry Ward Beecher on wisdom
War involves in its progress such a train of unforeseen circumstances that no human wisdom can calculate the end it has but one thing certain, and that is to increase taxes. Thomas Paine on wisdom
Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced. Ambrose Bierce on wisdom
The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom to serve all, but love only one. Honore de Balzac on wisdom
The wisdom of man never yet contrived a system of taxation that would operate with perfect equality. Andrew Jackson on wisdom
To make no mistakes is not in the power of man but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future. Plutarch on wisdom
Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone. Sigmund Freud on wisdom
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. Lucius Annaeus Seneca on wisdom
We don't receive wisdom we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us. Marcel Proust on wisdom
In order to have wisdom we must have ignorance. Theodore Dreiser on wisdom
We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom. The world henceforth will be run by synthesizers, people able to put together the right information at the right time, think critically about it, and make important choices wisely. E. O. Wilson on wisdom
Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life - in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk and to make our words and actions all of a color. Lucius Annaeus Seneca on wisdom
Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young. Rabindranath Tagore on wisdom
I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance. Thomas Carlyle on wisdom
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 on wisdom
In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom and unwisdom we have to say, Like People like Government. Thomas Carlyle on wisdom
I learned some valuable lessons about the legislative process, the importance of bipartisan cooperation and the wisdom of taking small steps to get a big job done. Hillary Clinton on wisdom
The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil. Marcus Tullius Cicero on wisdom