And I pray thee, loving Jesus, that as Thou hast graciously given me to drink in with delight the words of Thy knowledge, so Thou wouldst mercifully grant me to attain one day to Thee, the fountain of all wisdom and to appear forever before Thy face.

Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack. We give it orders which make no sense.

Not engaging in ignorance is wisdom.

In youth and beauty, wisdom is but rare!

In science, as in art, and, as I believe, in every other sphere of human activity, there may be wisdom in a multitude of counsellors, but it is only in one or two of them.

Every nation whose affairs betray a want of wisdom and stability may calculate on every loss which can be sustained from the more systematic policy of its wiser neighbors.

Teach you children poetry it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.

Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass.

One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know.

The enemy of the conventional wisdom is not ideas but the march of events.