“That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in another.”
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“We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already.”
“Great wisdom is generous petty wisdom is contentious.”
“Every speaker has a mouth An arrangement rather neat. Sometimes it's filled with wisdom. Sometimes it's filled with feet.”
“There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives.”
“Pain makes man think. Thought makes man wise. Wisdom makes life endurable.”
“It seems to me that, in every culture, I come across a chapter headed 'Wisdom.' And then I know exactly what is going to follow: 'Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.'”
“If I am fool, it is, at least, a doubting one and I envy no one the certainty of his self-approved wisdom.”
“Who knows for what we live, and struggle, and die? Wise men write many books, in words too hard to understand. But this, the purpose of our lives, the end of all our struggle, is beyond all human wisdom.”
“People always blame the girl she should have said no. A monosyllable, but conventional wisdom has always been that boys can't manage it.”
“The pine stays green in winter... wisdom in hardship.”
“Mixing one's wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.”
“A man may learn wisdom even from a foe.”
“I actually don't think that I'm that much smarter than anybody else. It's just that I frequently just seem to know what to do, and I think that's wisdom.”
“Novels are the Socratic dialogues of our time. Practical wisdom fled from school wisdom into this liberal form.”
“Men who know themselves are no longer fools. They stand on the threshold of the door of Wisdom.”
“Kindness is wisdom.”
“I don't think you can come into your wisdom until you have made mistakes on your own skin and felt them in reality of your own life.”
“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.”
“In the frank expression of conflicting opinions lies the greatest promise of wisdom in governmental action.”
“I don't turn to greeting cards for wisdom and advice, but they are a fine reflection of the general drift of the culture.”
“Great wisdom is generous petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech cantankerous.”
“Whenever you argue with another wiser than yourself in order that others may admire your wisdom, they will discover your ignorance.”
“The more I work with the body, keeping my assumptions in a temporary state of reservation, the more I appreciate and sympathize with a given disease. The body no longer appears as a sick or irrational demon, but as a process with its own inner logic and wisdom.”