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Friday, May 31st, 2024
the Week of Proper 3 / Ordinary 8
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Quotations regarding 'Wisdom'

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I think in conventional magazine wisdom, you need to have a redesign every decade or so.
Timothy White, American Critic (1952-2002)
I'll come to you with gifts of knowledge, wisdom and truth.
Barry White, American Musician (1944-2003)
Knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows.
Alfred North Whitehead, English Mathematician (1861-1947)
Wisdom alone is true ambition's aim, wisdom is the source of virtue and of fame; obtained with labour, for mankind employed, and then, when most you share it, best enjoyed.
Alfred North Whitehead, English Mathematician (1861-1947)
Wisdom alone is true ambition's aim, wisdom the source of virtue, and of fame, obtained with labour, for mankind employed, and then, when most you share it, best enjoyed.
William Whitehead, English Poet
The truest greatness lies in being kind, the truest wisdom in a happy mind.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox, American Writer (1850-1919)
The wisdom acquired with the passage of time is a useless gift unless you share it.
Esther Williams, American Actress (1921-  )
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, -
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, American Scientist (1929-  )
Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.
Tom Wilson, American Cartoonist
Turn your wounds into wisdom.
Oprah Winfrey, American Entertainer (1954-  )
Follow your instincts. That's where true wisdom manifests itself.
Oprah Winfrey, American Entertainer (1954-  )
Many people have their reputations as reporters and analysts because they are on television, batting around conventional wisdom. A lot of these people have never reported a story.
Bob Woodward, American Journalist (1943-  )
I find that to be a fool as to worldly wisdom, and to commit my cause to God, not fearing to offend men, who take offence at the simplicity of truth, is the only way to remain unmoved at the sentiments of others.
John Woolman, American Clergyman (1720-1772)
Wisdom is oftentimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar.
William Wordsworth, English Poet (1770-1850)
If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise.
William Butler Yeats, Irish Poet (1865-1939)
Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought - asleep. When we are weary of the living, we may repair to the dead, who have nothing of peevishness, pride, or design in their conversation.
William Butler Yeats, Irish Poet (1865-1939)
There is no knowledge, no light, no wisdom that you are in possession of, but what you have received it from some source.
Brigham Young, American Leader (1801-1877)
The clouds may drop down titles and estates, and wealth may seek us, but wisdom must be sought.
Edward Young, English Poet (1683-1765)
The weak have remedies, the wise have joys; superior wisdom is superior bliss.
Edward Young, English Poet (1683-1765)
 
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