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Blessed is the man who finds wisdom, the man who gains understanding, for she is more profitable than silver and yields better returns than gold. She is more precious than rubies; nothing you desire can compare with her. Proverbs 3:13-15
Bible
Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seemeth to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise. For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. 1 Corinthians 3:18-19
He that walketh with wise men shall be wise.
Wisdom begins at the end.
Daniel Webster
Economists often like startling theorems, results which seem to run counter to conventional wisdom.
Joseph Stiglitz
Whether the aim is in heaven or on earth, wisdom or wealth, the essential condition of its pursuit and attainment is always security and order.
Johan Huizinga
Wisdom overcomes fortune.
Juvenal
It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important.
Arthur Conan Doyle
Wisdom is keeping a sense of fallibility of all our views and opinions.
Gerald Brenan
But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.
Edmund Burke
We are to seek wisdom and understanding only in the length of days.
Robert Hall
A nation's treasure is its scholars.
Yiddish Proverb
The man who questions opinions is wise. The man who quarrels with facts is a fool.
Frank Garbutt
Few of the many wise apothegms which have been uttered have prevented a single foolish action.
Thomas B. Macaulay
There's the conventional wisdom, of which I have none, where you get a record deal, you get a publicist, you get a campaign, and you do the tour, but none of that adds up to things like nuance and subtlety and dynamic.
Chris Robinson
Nobility of spirit has more to do with simplicity than ostentation, wisdom rather than wealth, commitment rather than ambition.
Riccardo Muti
Wisdom is perishable. Unlike information or knowledge, it cannot be stored in a computer or recorded in a book. It expires with each passing generation.
Sid Taylor
Doubt the conventional wisdom unless you can verify it with reason and experiment.
Steve Albini
Novels are the Socratic dialogues of our time. Practical wisdom fled from school wisdom into this liberal form.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
The wisdom of God's Word is quite clear on believers being unequally yoked. And marrying someone who is not a Christian - who is not a daily disciple of Christ - is being unequally yoked, regardless of what their beliefs might be.
Pat Robertson