We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it.
The Divine wisdom has given us prayer, not as a means whereby to obtain the good things of earth, but as a means whereby we learn to do without them; not as a means whereby we escape evil, but as a means whereby we become strong to meet it.
Wisdom finds its literary expression in wisdom literature.
This is perhaps the most profound meaning of the book of Job, the best example of wisdom.
They see me as being this Super Mom on TV who also can more than handle a difficult husband, and they assume I'm going to be just full of wisdom as a mother and wife myself.
And, if we have any evidence that the wisdom which formed the plan is in the man, we have the very same evidence, that the power which executed it is in him also.
Every indication of wisdom, taken from the effect, is equally an indication of power to execute what wisdom planned.
People always blame the girl; she should have said no. A monosyllable, but conventional wisdom has always been that boys can't manage it.
Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.
Has fortune dealt you some bad cards. Then let wisdom make you a good gamester.
We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.
If God had sufficient wisdom and power to construct such a beautiful world as this, then we must admit that his wisdom and power are immeasurably greater than that of man, and hence he is qualified to reign as king.
He who is taught to live upon little owes more to his father's wisdom than he who has a great deal left him does to his father's care.
Discipline is wisdom and vice versa.
Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.