Wisdom

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
Experience
Wisdom
Folk
Nation
Quotations
sayings
The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it.
William Faulkner
Wisdom
Dream
End
It is wisdom in prosperity, when all is as thou wouldn't have it, to fear and suspect the worst.
Desiderius Erasmus
Wisdom
Fear
Prosperity
Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Power
Wisdom
The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Time
Wisdom
Work
Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Wisdom
Goodness
The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Wisdom
Men who know themselves are no longer fools. They stand on the threshold of the door of Wisdom.
Henry Ellis
Men
Wisdom
Fools
Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?
T. S. Eliot
Life
Wisdom
Knowledge
Information
Living
In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause.
George Eliot
Wisdom
Applause
Folly
Laughter
More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.
George Eliot
Wisdom
Pity
Will
The older I get the more wisdom I find in the ancient rule of taking first things first. A process which often reduces the most complex human problem to a manageable proportion.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Wisdom
First
The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.
Albert Einstein
Power
Wisdom
Successful
Lord, bless me with the ability to achieve all that I can, and the wisdom to realize it doesn't all have to be by tomorrow!
William Eardley IV
Wisdom
Ability
Spending two years on my uncle's ranch in Montana as a young man gave me the wisdom and the thrust to do westerns.
Robert Duvall
Wisdom
Man
Montana
Years