Every day every birthday candle I blow out every penny I throw over my shoulder in a wishing well every time my daughter says 'Let's make a wish on a star ' there's one thing I wish for: wisdom.

Man's wisdom is his best friend folly his worst enemy.

Central banks don't have divine wisdom. They try to do the best analysis they can and must be prepared to stand or fall by the quality of that analysis.

Some of the best lessons we ever learn are learned from past mistakes. The error of the past is the wisdom and success of the future.

There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic: a man's own observation what he finds good of and what he finds hurt of is the best physic to preserve health.

Silence is true wisdom's best reply.

The best way to obtain truth and wisdom is not to ask from books but to go to God in prayer and obtain divine teaching.

What we call wisdom is the result of all the wisdom of past ages. Our best institutions are like young trees growing upon the roots of the old trunks that have crumbled away.

The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself and not upon other men has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation the man of manly character and of wisdom.

Those who govern having much business on their hands do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects. The best public measures are therefore seldom adopted from previous wisdom but forced by the occasion.

The arts quite simply nourish the soul. They sustain comfort inspire. There is nothing like that exquisite moment when you first discover the beauty of connecting with others in celebration of larger ideals and shared wisdom.

Beauty the eternal Spouse of the Wisdom of God and Angel of his Presence thru' all creation.

One of the most beautiful passages of Rousseau is that in the sixth book of Confessions where he describes the awakening in him of the literary sense. Of such wisdom the poetic passion the desire of beauty the love of art for its own sake has most.

Wisdom is the abstract of the past but beauty is the promise of the future.

There's a beauty to wisdom and experience that cannot be faked. It's impossible to be mature without having lived.

Wisdom I know is social. She seeks her fellows. But Beauty is jealous and illy bears the presence of a rival.

In youth and beauty wisdom is but rare!