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Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.
Octavio Paz on wisdom

What I lack in energy, I have in wisdom.
Marcia Cross on wisdom

I have tried at every point to seek God's wisdom on the decisions I made, and I made it my business to speak up on behalf of the things God tells us are important to Him.
Jesse Helms on wisdom

But the Wisdom of God, which is His only-begotten Son, being in all respects incapable of change or alteration, and every good quality in Him being essential, and such as cannot be changed and converted, His glory is therefore declared to be pure and sincere.
Origen on wisdom

We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.
Stephen Vincent Benet on wisdom

A monarchy conducted with infinite wisdom and infinite benevolence is the most perfect of all possible governments.
Ezra Stiles on wisdom

In justice to human society it may perhaps be said of almost all the polities and civil institutions in the world, however imperfect, that they have been founded in and carried on with very considerable wisdom.
Ezra Stiles on wisdom

The constitutions of Maryland and New York are founded in higher wisdom.
Ezra Stiles on wisdom

Conventional wisdom notwithstanding, there is no reason either in football or in poetry why the two should not meet in a man's life if he has the weight and cares about the words.
Archibald MacLeish on wisdom

You know, it's sort of common wisdom among New York publishers that short story collections don't make money.
Chad Harbach on wisdom

Wisdom and goodness are twin-born, one heart must hold both sisters, never seen apart.
William Dean Howells on wisdom

Doubt the conventional wisdom unless you can verify it with reason and experiment.
Steve Albini on wisdom

What's different now is that while political leaders used to give talking points to talk radio, now talk-radio hosts are giving talking points to political leaders. It's all part of the suffocating spin cycle we're in. In media, politics and publishing, the conventional wisdom is to play to this base.
John Avlon on wisdom

Now all the knowledge and wisdom that is in creatures, whether angels or men, is nothing else but a participation of that one eternal, immutable and increased wisdom of God.
Ralph Cudworth on wisdom

Books should to one of these fours ends conduce, for wisdom, piety, delight, or use.
John Denham on wisdom

Your aim will be knowledge and wisdom, not the reflected glamour of fame.
Abbott L. Lowell on wisdom

I find the fact that billionaires are quoted as if the fact that they are billionaires gives them some kind of wisdom is outrageous.
Ben Elton on wisdom

The most important lesson of New Labour is this: Every time we made progress we did it by challenging the conventional wisdom.
Ed Miliband on wisdom

To know one's self is wisdom, but not to know one's neighbors is genius.
Minna Antrim on wisdom

A few years ago you couldn't go from TV to film. It was like a 'no no' but I believe when you find a plan and purpose that God has for your life, there's not anything man can do to you. Especially when your faith is not really standing in the wisdom of man, you're really standing in the wisdom of God.
Derek Luke on wisdom