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No lying knight or lying priest ever prospered in any age but especially not in the dark ones. Men prospered then only in following an openly declared purpose and preaching candidly beloved and trusted creeds.

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Logic is the beginning of wisdom not the end.

Great wisdom is generous petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned small speech cantankerous.

I don't turn to greeting cards for wisdom and advice but they are a fine reflection of the general drift of the culture.

In the frank expression of conflicting opinions lies the greatest promise of wisdom in governmental action.

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.

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.

Kindness is wisdom.

Men who know themselves are no longer fools. They stand on the threshold of the door of Wisdom.

Novels are the Socratic dialogues of our time. Practical wisdom fled from school wisdom into this liberal form.

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.

A man may learn wisdom even from a foe.

Mixing one's wines may be a mistake but old and new wisdom mix admirably.

The pine stays green in winter... wisdom in hardship.

People always blame the girl she should have said no. A monosyllable but conventional wisdom has always been that boys can't manage it.

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.

If I am fool it is at least a doubting one and I envy no one the certainty of his self-approved wisdom.

Full of wisdom are the ordinations of fate.

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.'

The word philosophy sounds high-minded but it simply means the love of wisdom. If you love something you don't just read about it you hug it you mess with it you play with it you argue with it.

They would need to be already wise in order to love wisdom.

It is good even for old men to learn wisdom.

Pain makes man think. Thought makes man wise. Wisdom makes life endurable.

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.

I believe we have become paralyzed paralyzed by our desire to be loved. Now our founding fathers had the wisdom to know that social acceptance and popularity were fleeing and that this country's principles needed to be rooted in strengths greater than the passions and the emotions of the times.