Worldly Wisdom Do not stay in the field! Nor climb out of sight. The best view of the world Is from a medium height. - Friedrich Nietzsche All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man. - Henry David Thoreau I have no agenda except to be funny. Neither I or the writers profess to offer any worldly wisdom. - Julia Louisdreyfus Books admitted me to their world open-handedly, as people for their most part, did not. The life I lived in books was one of ease and freedom, worldly wisdom, glitter, dash and style. - Jonathan Raban I find that to be a fool as to worldly wisdom, and to commit my cause to God, not fearing to offend men, who take offence at the simplicity of truth, is the only way to remain unmoved at the sentiments of others. - John Woolman

I rearranged the letters of the word "Wisdom" and got "swimod." Afterwards I felt like I was drowning in foolishness. - Jarod Kintz I don't think it would have all got me quite so down if just once in a whilejust once in a whilethere was at least some polite little perfunctory implication that knowledge should lead to wisdom, and that if it doesn't, it's just a disgusting waste of time! But there never is! You never even hear any hints dropped on a campus that wisdom is supposed to be the goal of knowledge. You hardly ever even hear the word 'wisdom' mentioned! - J D Salinger

Do you think it's funny to be so serious when I'm not even out of high school?' she asked. 'I don't see how it could be any other way,' said Lee. 'Laughter comes later, like wisdom teeth, and laughter at yourself comes last of all in a mad race with death, and sometimes it isn't in time. - John Steinbeck I covered my face because they had taken my wisdom teeth out. - Josh Brolin A man begins cutting his wisdom teeth the first time he bites off more than he can chew. - Herb Caen

Libraries offer, for free, the wisdom of the ages--and sages--and, simply put, there's something for everyone inside. - Laura Bush Sometimes I long for a convent cell, with the sublime wisdom of centuries set out on bookshelves all along the wall and a view across the cornfields--there must be cornfields and they must wave in the breeze--and there I would immerse myself in the wisdom of the ages and in myself. Then I might perhaps find peace and clarity. But that would be no great feat. It is right here, in this very place, in the here and the now, that I must find them. - Etty Hillesum There's an old adage," he said, "translated from the ancient Coptic, that contains all the wisdom of the ages -- "Life is life and fun is fun, but it's all so quiet when the goldfish die. - Beryl Markham He has made me wary of chronological snobbery. That is, he showed me that newness is no virtue and oldness is no vice. Truth and beauty and goodness are not determined by ...

Sometimes one 'needs' to use cleverness and kick wisdom aside.It's not everything that needs the application of wisdom, cleverness has a role to play. Andby the fact that one knows when to use cleverness and kick wisdomaside, is another wisdom of its own. - Emmanuel Aghado I observed the woman I had been up until then: weak but trying to give the impression of strength. Fearful of everything but telling herself it wasn't fear - it was the wisdom of someone who knew what reality was. - Paulo Coelho With the rain, falls the wisdom of heaven. - Paulo Coelho It is easy to be disgruntled if you are denied rights and freedoms to which you feel entitled. But if you are not coherent, if you cannot put into words what it is that displeases you and why it is unfair and should change, then you are dismissed as an unreasonable whiner. You may be lectured about perseverance and patience, life as a test, the need to accept the higher wisdom of others. - Ayaan Hirsi Ali No, that ...

The key to wisdom is this - constant and frequent questioning, for by doubting we are led to question and by questioning we arrive at the truth. - Peter Abelard 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. - Joseph Addison There are genuine mysteries in the world that mark the limits of human knowing and thinking. Wisdom is fortified, not destroyed, by understanding its limitations. Ignorance does not make a fool as surely as self-deception. - Mortimer Adler True wisdom is less presuming than folly. The wise man doubteth often, and changeth his mind; the fool is obstinate, and doubteth not; he knoweth all things but his own ignorance. - Akhenaton The path to wisdom is to be yourself. Stop "seeking". - Paulo Coelho Wisdom is knowing when you can't be wise. - Paul Engle Until the day when God will deign to reveal the future to man, all human wisdom is contained in t...

The perfection of wisdom, and the end of true philosophy is to proportion our wants to our possessions, our ambitions to our capacities, we will then be a happy and a virtuous people. - Mark Twain Poetry and art nourish the soul of the world with the flavor-filled substances of beauty, wisdom and truth. - Aberjhani Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues. - Abigail Adams There are persons whom in my heart I despise, others I abhor. Yet I am not obliged to inform the one of my contempt, nor the other of my detestation. This kind of dissimulation...is a necessary branch of wisdom, and so far from being immoral...that it is a duty and a virtue. - John Adams To be satisfied with a little, is the greatest wisdom; and he that increaseth his riches, increaseth his cares; but a contented mind is a hidden treasure, and trouble findeth it not. - Akhenaton All we achieve by exacting revenge is to...

What is wisdom? It is the skill to achieve the perfect means by the perfect ends - A W Tozer Memory is not wisdom; idiots can by rote repeat volumes. Yet what is wisdom without memory? - Martin Farquhar Tupper

In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them. - Mark Twain We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it and stop there lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove lid again and that is well but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore. - Mark Twain There is advantage in the wisdom won from pain. - Aeschylus After all my possessions had been burned, God gave me the wisdom to return to Jerusalem. - Shmuel Y Agnon It is seriously believed by some that the intention may have been geodetic, or, in the view of the cannier, domestic economical. But by writing thithaways end to end and turning, turning and end to end hithaways writing and with lines of litters slittering up and louds of latters slettering down, the old semetomyplace and jupetbackagain from tham Let Raise till Hum Li...