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.
Category: wisdom
After all my possessions had been burned, God gave me the wisdom to return to Jerusalem.
To comprehend the Wisdom of this Injunction the better, and explain the Duty before us, it should be considered, that Government is the only Means by which human Happiness can be attained.
Evil can be a teacher, if you look at the wisdom of its negative power.
The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.
Wisdom is not acquired save as the result of investigation.
Your aim will be knowledge and wisdom, not the reflected glamour of fame.
Strong characters are brought out by change of situation, and gentle ones by permanence.
Doubt is the vestibule through which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom.
Purity engenders Wisdom, Passion avarice, and Ignorance folly, infatuation and darkness.