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Ignorance and bungling with love are better than wisdom and skill without.

It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.

True wisdom listens more, talks less and can get along with all types of people.

I actually think with age comes some level of wisdom.

It may almost be a question whether such wisdom as many of us have in our mature years has not come from the dying out of the power of temptation, rather than as the results of thought and resolution.

Memory is not wisdom; idiots can by rote repeat volumes. Yet what is wisdom without memory?

I'm not wise, but the beginning of wisdom is there; it's like relaxing into - and an acceptance of - things.

Some of the best lessons we ever learn are learned from past mistakes. The error of the past is the wisdom and success of the future.

Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment.

Lord, give us the wisdom to utter words that are gentle and tender, for tomorrow we may have to eat them.

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.

Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency.

The Founding Fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents. So they provided jails called schools, equipped with tortures called an education.

Pessimism is only the name that men of weak nerves give to 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.

Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use.

He was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the rich.

Wisdom begins at the end.

For the subtlest folly proceeds from the subtlest wisdom.

Life is the only real counselor; wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue.