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Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.

If I don't have wisdom, I can teach you only ignorance.

As I visited the various neighborhoods in the campaign, I learned fast that it's a mistake to think that all of the wisdom and possible solutions to our problems are available only in this building.

If I am fool, it is, at least, a doubting one; and I envy no one the certainty of his self-approved wisdom.

Though sages may pour out their wisdom's treasure, there is no sterner moralist than pleasure.

A man begins cutting his wisdom teeth the first time he bites off more than he can chew.

I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom and unwisdom; we have to say, Like People like Government.

Instead of looking at life as a narrowing funnel, we can see it ever widening to choose the things we want to do, to take the wisdom we've learned and create something.

As far as feeling freedom in my career now versus five years ago... I think if I feel any more free it's simply because of the experiences that I've had, and the wisdom I've accumulated from that time.

Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. People have the right to expect that these wants will be provided for by this wisdom.

Vanity can easily overtake wisdom. It usually overtakes common sense.

Wisdom prepares for the worst, but folly leaves the worst for the day when it comes.

The most excellent and divine counsel, the best and most profitable advertisement of all others, but the least practiced, is to study and learn how to know ourselves. This is the foundation of wisdom and the highway to whatever is good.

Wisdom we know is the knowledge of good and evil, not the strength to choose between the two.

Wisdom is the knowledge of good and evil, not the strength to choose between the two.

The plan was criticized by some retired military officers embedded in TV studios. But with every advance by our coalition forces, the wisdom of that plan becomes more apparent.

In seeking wisdom thou art wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it - thou art a fool.

Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself; the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache.

Rightly defined philosophy is simply the love of wisdom.