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Without wisdom, the future has no meaning, no valuable purpose.
Herbie Hancock on wisdom

You can practice to attain knowledge, but you can't practice to attain wisdom.
Herbie Hancock on wisdom

And when the world is created, it is created in such a way that those eternal objects of God's loving wisdom become actualities - interacting with one another, relating to God in the finite realm.
Rowan D. Williams on wisdom

Wisdom is not acquired save as the result of investigation.
Sara Teasdale on wisdom

There was endless action - not just football, but sailboats, tennis and other things: movement. There was endless talk - the ambassador at the head of the table laying out the prevailing wisdom, but everyone else weighing in with their opinions and taking part.
Charles Spalding on wisdom

A man of strength and wisdom, John Paul became an inspiration to generations of both Catholics and non-Catholics throughout the world by encouraging freedom, promoting peace and respecting all faiths.
Greg Walden on wisdom

Spend time reflecting on your emotional and physical existence and how that applies to the voice. You have to apply that wisdom and experience when you sing - it's what comes through.
K. D. Lang on wisdom

My government, you can be assured, will be less focused on personalities. It is about treating people with respect. I think complaining about the community not being able to see the wisdom of our ideas is the wrong approach.
Jay Weatherill on wisdom

This society in which we live is radically changing. What previous generations saw as evil is now embraced as being good. It is a dangerous and slippery slope upon which we stand when we reject what Solomon called the beginning of wisdom - the fear of God.
Ray Comfort on wisdom

Education makes us more stupid than the brutes. A thousand voices call to us on every hand, but our ears are stopped with wisdom.
Jean Giraudoux on wisdom

The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.
Solomon Ibn Gabirol on wisdom

Wisdom, prudence, forethought, these are essential. But not second to these that noble courage which adventures the right, and leaves the consequences to God.
Robert Dale Owen on wisdom

If God had sufficient wisdom and power to construct such a beautiful world as this, then we must admit that his wisdom and power are immeasurably greater than that of man, and hence he is qualified to reign as king.
Orson Pratt on wisdom

This fear of the Lord is indeed the beginning of wisdom. This consciousness of sin is the straight pathway to heaven.
Joseph Barber Lightfoot on wisdom

The first point of wisdom is to discern that which is false the second, to know that which is true.
Lactantius on wisdom

The wisdom acquired with the passage of time is a useless gift unless you share it.
Esther Williams on wisdom

To light one candle to God and another to the Devil is the principle of wisdom.
Jose Bergamin on wisdom

After the knowledge of, and obedience to, the will of God, the next aim must be to know something of His attributes of wisdom, power, and goodness as evidenced by His handiwork.
James Prescott Joule on wisdom

Even wisdom has to yield to self-interest.
Pindar on wisdom

I feel increasingly like age is very irrelevant. Quite often, cynicism is confused with wisdom, and my scorn is confused with a knowing, which I don't have.
Laura Marling on wisdom