“ To think ill of mankind and not wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue. William Hazlitt
“ Wisdom is that apprehension of heavenly things to which the spirit rises through love. Honore de Balzac
“ No party has a monopoly on wisdom. No democracy works without compromise. But when Governor Romney and his allies in Congress tell us we can somehow lower our deficit by spending trillions more on new… Barack Obama
“ Who in their infinite wisdom decreed that Little League uniforms be white? Certainly not a mother. Erma Bombeck
“ The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom. Isaac Asimov
“ Let the fear of danger be a spur to prevent it he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger. Francis Quarles
“ Many spiritual teachers - in Buddhism, in Islam - have talked about first-hand experience of the world as an important part of the path to wisdom, to enlightenment. Bell Hooks
“ The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages is preserved into perpetuity by a nation's proverbs, fables, folk sayings and quotations. William Feather
“ The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations. Benjamin Disraeli
“ Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience. H. L. Mencken
“ 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 desi… William Butler Yeats
“ Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you. Ernest Hemingway
“ A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune. Horace
