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Emotions were like wild horses and it required wisdom to be able to control them

Like all other contracts, wages should be left to the fair and free competition of themarket, and should never be controlled by the interference of the legislature.

Courage is strength in the face of knowledge of what is to be feared or hoped. Wisdom is prudent strength.

Wisdom was a teapot, pouring from above. Desolation angels, served it up with love.

The mind is very powerful. Therefore, it requires firm guidance. A powerful jet plane needs a good pilot; the pilot of your mind should be the wisdom that understands its nature.

A man once said, 'All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure.' Mark Twain, you know. He had a fine mustache. Men of wisdom so often do.

I do not think that this [the universe] can be explained only by natural causes, and are forced to impute to the wisdom and ingenuity of an intelligent.

Your talk," I said, "is surely the handiwork of wisdom because not one word of it do I understand.

By wisdom wealth is won; but riches purchased wisdom yet for none.

It's not the depth of your intellect that will comfort you or transform your world. Only the richness of your heart and your generosity of spirit can do that

In idle wishes, fools supinely stay. Be there a will and wisdom finds a way.

Wisdom married to immortal verse.

Learning and wisdom are superfluities, the surface glitter merely, but it is the heart that is the seat of all power.

Wisdom is not a question of learning facts with the mind; it can only be acquired through perfection of living.

My philosophy has always been that benefits should percolate up rather than trickle down.

The reality of a serious writer is a reality of many voices, some of them belonging to the writer, some of them belonging to the world of readers at large.

One of the best introductions to the history and ideas of Calvinism, packed with insight and wisdom.

The Bush administration is a paragon of wisdom.

I am not one who was born in the custody of wisdom; I am one who is fond of olden times and intense in quest of the sacred knowing of the ancients.

I have been reading the Old Testament, a most bloodthirsty and perilous book for the young. Jehovah is beyond doubt the worst character in fiction.

Love is the strongest force the world possesses, and yet it is the Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown.

My goal as a theologian is to move beyond the acquisition of knowledge to its application in real life: in a word, I want to get wisdom.

Laughter without a tinge of philosophy is but a sneeze of humor. Genuine humor is replete with wisdom.

The only infallible criterion of wisdom to vulgar minds - success.