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All human wisdom works and has worries and grief as reward. -- Johann Georg Hamann
All human wisdom is summed up in two words; wait and hope. -- Alexandre Dumas
It is almost everywhere the case that soon after it is begotten the greater part of human wisdom is laid to rest in repositories. -- Georg C. Lichtenberg
Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. People have the right to expect that these wants will be provided for by this wisdom. -- Jimmy Carter
War involves in its progress such a train of unforeseen circumstances that no human wisdom can calculate the end; it has but one thing certain, and that is to increase taxes. -- Thomas Paine
If we have built on the fragile cornerstones of human wisdom, pride, and conditional love, things may look good for a while, but a weak foundation causes collapse when storms hit. -- Charles Stanley
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. -- Alan Paton
History is filled with tragic examples of wars that result from diplomatic impasse. Whether in our local communities or in international relations, the skillful use of our communicative capacities to negotiate and resolve differences is the first evidence of human wisdom. -- Daisaku Ikeda
Make wisdom human to the adolescent mind. -- Will Durant
Give tribute, but not oblation, to human wisdom. -- Philip Sidney
The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language. -- Ezra Pound
Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. -- Edmund Burke
Theology in general seems to me a substitution of human ingenuity for divine wisdom. -- Julia Ward Howe
Power in any Form . . . when directed only by human Wisdom and Benevolence is dangerous. -- John Adams
Ninety percent of all human wisdom is the ability to mind your own business. -- Robert A. Heinlein
All the history of human life has been a struggle between wisdom and stupidity. -- Philip Pullman
... To know and love one other human being is the root of all wisdom. -- Evelyn Waugh
It is human misery and not pleasure which contains the secret of the divine wisdom. -- Simone Weil
Wisdom may be the ultimate arbiter, but is seldom the immediate agent in human affairs. -- James Fitzjames Stephen
So he went down, smiling sceptically and mutter the final word in human wisdom: 'Perhaps! -- Alexandre Dumas
Wisdom is one of the few things in human life that does not diminish with age. -- Ram Dass
We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom. -- Leo Tolstoy
More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us. -- George Eliot
Human wisdom is the aggregate of all human experience, constantly accumulating, selecting, and reorganizing its own materials. -- Joseph Story
Wisdom is an affair of values, and of value judgments. It is intelligent conduct of human affairs. -- Sidney Hook
[Government's] great contribution to human wisdom...is the discovery that the taxpayer has more than one pocket. -- H. L. Mencken
Stupidity and wisdom meet in the same centre of sentiment and resolution, in the suffering of human accidents. -- Michel de Montaigne
Providence has given human wisdom the choice between two fates: either hope and agitation, or hopelessness and calm. -- Yevgeny Baratynsky
A desire not to butt into other people's business is at least eighty percent of all human wisdom. -- Robert A. Heinlein
Wisdom is a kind of knowledge. It is knowledge of the nature, career, and consequences of human values. -- Sidney Hook
It is astonishing what force, purity, and wisdom it requires for a human being to keep clear of falsehoods. -- Margaret Fuller
If we take the world's enduring religions at their best, we discover the distilled wisdom of the human race. -- Huston Smith
The law is the last result of human wisdom acting upon human experience for the benefit of the public. -- Samuel Johnson
To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue. -- Gautama Buddha
There is no such thing as an inevitable war. If war comes it will be from failure of human wisdom. -- Bonar Law
Darling, has not the count just told us that all human wisdom is summed up in two words? Wait and hope. -- Alexandre Dumas
The fatal flaw of human wisdom is that it promises that you can change your relationships without needing to change yourself. -- Paul David Tripp
Wisdom is not to be obtained from textbooks, but must be coined out of human experience in the flame of life. -- Morris Raphael Cohen
Any teacher can study books, but books do not necessarily bring wisdom, nor that human insight essential to consummate teaching skills. -- Bliss Perry
By far the greatest and most admirable form of wisdom is that needed to plan and beautify cities and human communities. -- Socrates
We live in a culture that doesn't acknowledge or validate human intuition and doesn't encourage us to rely on our intuitive wisdom. -- Shakti Gawain
It is like employing a small tool on big constructions, if we use human wisdom in the hunt for knowledge of reality. -- Gregory of Nazianzus
All our experience with history should teach us, when we look back, how badly human wisdom is betrayed when it relies on itself -- Martin Luther
It is a bewildering thing in human life that the things that cause the greatest fear is the source of the greatest wisdom. -- Carl Jung
The more accurately we search into the human mind, the stronger traces we everywhere find of the wisdom of Him who made it. -- Edmund Burke
One reason the human race has such a low opinion of itself is that it gets so much of its wisdom from writers. -- Wilfrid
One reason the human race has such a low opinion of itself is that it gets so much of its wisdom from writers. -- Wilfrid
We have much to do together. Let us do it in wisdom and love and joy. Let us make this the human experience. -- Gary Zukav
Human beings know a lot of things, some of which are true, and apply them. When we like the results, we call it wisdom. -- Herbert Simon
Quotations are the gold mine of human mind, the silver pearls of the wisdom ocean, and the cool drops of the rain of intelligence. -- Mehmet Murat ildan
Darling, replied Valentine, has not the count just told us that all human wisdom was contained in these two words,- "Wait and hope"? -- Alexandre Dumas
We live in a world where knowledge is developing at an ever-accelerating rate. Drink deeply from this ever-springing well of wisdom and human experience. -- Gordon B. Hinckley
I, as a human, do not become the power or love or wisdom of God; I merely contain Him who is all these, and everything. -- Norman Grubb
Neither human wisdom nor divine inspiration can confer upon man any greater blessing than this [live a life of happiness and harmony here on earth]. -- Plato
In that the wisdom of the few becomes available to the many, there is progress in human affairs; without it, the static routine of tradition continues. -- Joseph Jastrow
Basal Ganglia casts an unsettling spell, but one that in its aphoristic intensity and lightning-flash insights into human loneliness and connection, achieves a genuine empathic wisdom. -- Sergio De La Pava
God's law is 'right reason.' When perfectly understood it is called 'wisdom.' When applied by government in regulating human relations it is called 'justice. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
Nature will not forgive those who fail to fulfill the law of their being. The law of human beings is wisdom and goodness, not unlimited acquisition. -- Robert M. Hutchins
The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language, and no single language is capable of expressing all forms and degrees of human comprehension. -- Ezra Pound
God, in His wisdom, has so linked the whole human family together that any violence done at one end of the chain is felt throughout its length. -- Elizabeth Cady Stanton
The Holy Ghost is the only One who can detect the temptations of Satan, neither our common sense nor our human wisdom can detect them as temptations. -- Oswald Chambers
We must refuse to lean upon the broken staff of human wisdom & cling to the gospel alone as the power of God to save a hardened humanity. -- Paul Washer
Happy will it be for ourselves, and most honorable for human nature, if we have wisdom and virtue enough to set so glorious an example to mankind! -- Alexander Hamilton
The height of human wisdom is to bring our tempers down to our circumstances, and to make a calm within, under the weight of the greatest storm without. -- Daniel Defoe
Dreams provide a kind of wisdom of the heart, an echoing voice of a profound human sensitivity too often lost to us in the reasonable life of days. -- Sheldon B. Kopp
Science has radically changed the conditions of human life on earth. It has expanded our knowledge and our power, but not our capacity to use them with wisdom. -- J. William Fulbright
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Conventional wisdom nor scientific, mathematical prove of randomness in life could do nothing to deter human's curiosity for the unknown, however small the chance of a positive outcome maybe. -- Vann Chow
Prayer girds human weakness with divine strength, turns human folly into heavenly wisdom, and gives to troubled mortals the peace of God. We know not what prayer can do. -- Charles Spurgeon
I acknowledge the privilege of being alive in a human body at this moment, endowed with senses, memories, emotions, thoughts, and the space of mind in its wisdom aspect. -- Alex Grey
No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool. Writers, alas, have to be fools in public, while the rest of the human race can cover its tracks. -- Erica Jong
Magic has power to experience and fathom things which are inaccessible to human reason. For magic is a great secret wisdom, just as reason is a great public folly. -- Paracelsus
There are two statements about human beings that are true: that all human beings are alike, and that all are different. On those two facts all human wisdom is founded. -- Mark Van Doren
We are taught to view pain as an enemy, not a teacher. But pain is the right hand of growth and transformation. Pain is in the history of all human wisdom. -- Ani DiFranco
Everyone who believes in God must have His revelation in his spirit, or else what he believes is not God but mere human wisdom, ideals or words. Such faith cannot endure the test. -- Watchman Nee
God never meant that man should scale the Heavens By strides of human wisdom. In his works, Though wondrous, he commands us in his word To seek him rather where his mercy shines. -- William Cowper
The ultimate decision about what is accepted as right and wrong will be made not by individual human wisdom but by the disappearance of the groups that have adhered to the "wrong" beliefs. -- Friedrich August von Hayek
Certainly it was ordained as a scourge upon the pride of human wisdom, that the wisest of us all, should thus outwit ourselves, and eternally forego our purposes in the intemperate act of pursuing them. -- Laurence Sterne

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