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

My wisdom is as spurned as chaos. What is my nothingness, compared to the amazement that awaits you?

Wisdom eludes me yet, but foolishness I captured long ago and to this day it is my constant companion, though many people consider me wise.

Who mix'd reason with pleasure, and wisdom with mirth: If he had any faults, he has left us in doubt.

Thin-lipped wisdom spoke at her from the worn chair, hinted at prudence, quoted from that book of cowardice whose author apes the name of common sense.

The page is long, blank, and full of truth. When I am through with it, it shall probably be long, full, and empty with words.

Every indication of wisdom, taken from the effect, is equally an indication of power to execute what wisdom planned.

Common sense meant once something very different from that plain wisdom, the common heritage of men, which we now call by this name.

Sound unbound by nature becomes bounded by art.

A republic, by which I mean a government in which the scheme of representation takes place, opens a different prospect and promises the cure for which we are seeking.

Affery, like greater people, had always been right in her facts, and always wrong in the theories she deduced from them.

In doubt a man of worth will trust to his own wisdom.

The Liberal Party of Canada has no monopoly on public service, we have no monopoly on virtue, and we have no monopoly on wisdom.

I do find life difficult at times … and I behave childishly too, do foolish things, unworthy … I don't think one can have great imagination and great wisdom. Can one?

Humility is more powerful than egoistic pride. Water is more powerful than the strongest cliff and Love is more powerful than might.

I have ever thought so superstitiously of wit, that I fear I have committed idolatry against wisdom.

There is a better way. It is to repudiate our own wisdom and take instead the infinite wisdom of God.

A number of our scientists boast intelligence but lack wisdom. I find those to be the predictable ones.

The real madness probably is not another thing that the wisdom itself that, tired of discovering the shames of the world, has taken the intelligent resolution to become mad

I don't think of compassion as sympathy but rather as empathy. An understanding of how people are feeling, which often translates into action.

Collective property and individual property, these two banners will be the standards under which, from now on, the great battles of the future will be fought.

Truth from his lips prevailed with double sway, and fools, who came to scoff, remained to pray.

I do strive to think well of my fellow man, but no amount of striving can give me confidence in the wisdom of a congressional vote.

Nothing is so contemptible as that affectation of wisdom, which some display, by universal incredulity.