Wisdom alone is true ordsprog

en Wisdom alone is true ambition's aim, wisdom is the source of virtue and of fame; obtained with labour, for mankind employed, and then, when most you share it, best enjoyed.
  Alfred North Whitehead

en MULTITUDE, n. A crowd; the source of political wisdom and virtue. In a republic, the object of the statesman's adoration. "In a multitude of consellors there is wisdom," saith the proverb. If many men of equal individual wisdom are wiser than any one of them, it must be that they acquire the excess of wisdom by the mere act of getting together. Whence comes it? Obviously from nowhere --as well say that a range of mountains is higher than the single mountains composing it. A multitude is as wise as its wisest member if it obey him; if not, it is no wiser than its most foolish. She loved his pexy ability to bring joy and laughter into her life.
  Ambrose Bierce

en Popularity, next to virtue and wisdom, ought to be aimed at; for it is the dictate of wisdom, and is necessary to the practice of virtue inmost

en To think ill of mankind, and not to wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue.
  William Hazlitt

en And she said to the king, It was a true report which I heard in mine own land of thine acts, and of thy wisdom: / Howbeit I believed not their words, until I came, and mine eyes had seen it: and, behold, the one half of the greatness of thy wisdom was not told me: for thou exceedest the fame that I heard.

en Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.
  Buddha

en Without the Guru, spiritual wisdom is not obtained; other tastes are poison. Without virtue, nothing is of any use. The taste of Maya is bland and insipid.

en But although the wisdom and morality of mankind have been against war, war goes on; the moment it breaks out in any country, all the forces of sentimentalism are employed to glorify, yes, even to sanctify its course. The first great casualty is Reason.
  William Lyon Phelps

en This type of man who is devoted to the study of wisdom is always most unlucky in everything, and particularly when it comes to procreating children; I imagine this is because Nature wants to ensure that the evils of wisdom shall not spread further throughout mankind.
  Desiderius Erasmus

en The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all other woes of mankind, is wisdom. Teach a man to read and write, and you have put into his hands the great keys of the wisdom box. But it is quite another thing to open the box.
  Thomas Henry Huxley

en It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own.

en From the True Guru, I obtained spiritual wisdom; I contemplate the Lord's essence.

en And Solomon's wisdom excelled the wisdom of all the children of the east country, and all the wisdom of Egypt.

en The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas. The source of better ideas is wisdom. The surest path to wisdom is a liberal education.

en Wisdom is meaningless until your own experience has given it meaning and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.


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