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Philosophy … bears witness to the deepest love of reflection, to absolute delight in wisdom.
Wisdom is something I would never expect from Freud. Cleverness, certainly; but not wisdom.
Bookes give no wisdom where none was before,
But where some is, there reading makes it more.
Wisdom will not be complete except by following the truth.
It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.
To understand the actual world as it is, not as we should wish it to be, is the beginning of wisdom.
Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences.
We can't smell what The Rock is cookin' at the Palace of Wisdom.
Speaking as a devout atheist, thank God in his Almighty wisdom that he made us mortal.
We were ensnared by the wisdom of the serpent; we are set free by the foolishness of God.
O Music! sphere-descended maid,
Friend of Pleasure, Wisdom's aid!
Wisdom can be learned. But it cannot be taught.
Mixing one's wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.
Epops: A man may learn wisdom even from a foe.
(tr. in Goldstein-Jackson 1983, p. 163)
The Wisdom of God Manifested in the Works of the Creation.
Wisdom and good governance require more than the consistent application of abstract principles.
He is a despicable sage whose wisdom does not profit himself.
Both knowledge and wisdom extend man's reach. Knowledge led to computers, wisdom to chopsticks.
The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all the other woes of mankind, is wisdom.
In idle wishes fools supinely stay;
Be there a will, and wisdom finds a way.