Dr. Johnson has said that the chief glory of a country arises from its authors. But then that is only as they are oracles of wisdom; unless they teach virtue, they are more worthy of a halter than of the laurel.

You want people walking away from the conversation with some kernel of wisdom or some kind of impact.

Without wisdom, the future has no meaning, no valuable purpose.

Wisdom is a kind of knowledge. It is knowledge of the nature, career, and consequences of human values.

The plan was criticized by some retired military officers embedded in TV studios. But with every advance by our coalition forces, the wisdom of that plan becomes more apparent.

Enraging liberals is simply one of the more enjoyable side effects of my wisdom.

Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.

Silence and reserve will give anyone a reputation for wisdom.

We do not sit as a superlegislature to weigh the wisdom of legislation.

If the highest things are unknowable, then the highest capacity or virtue of man cannot be theoretical wisdom.

Wisdom is humble that he knows no more.

More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.

There is no wisdom of man that can change men or change nations; it is the power and wisdom of God that can.

One reason the human race has such a low opinion of itself is that it gets so much of its wisdom from writers.

It is not from reason that justice springs, but goodness is born of wisdom.

Lessons of wisdom have the most power over us when they capture the heart through the groundwork of a story, which engages the passions.

What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes?

God the Father, the supreme Architect, had already built this cosmic home we behold, the most sacred temple of His godhead, by the laws of His mysterious wisdom.

The 'Reader's Digest' used to run a feature called 'It Pays to Increase Your Word Power.' The new wisdom - post-Trump and Brexit - is that it doesn't.

Although it has been said by men of more wit than wisdom, and perhaps more malice than either, that women are naturally incapable of acting prudently, or that they are necessarily determined to folly, I must by no means grant it.

What has history said of eminence without honor, wealth without wisdom, power and possessions without principle? The answer is reiterated in the overthrow of the mightiest empires of ancient times. Babylon, Persia, Greece, Rome! The four successive, universal powers of the past. What and where are they?

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.

Education makes us more stupid than the brutes. A thousand voices call to us on every hand, but our ears are stopped with 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.