Evil Quote by John Milton

What wisdom can there be to choose, what continence to forbear without the knowledge of evil? He that can apprehend and consider vice with…

— John Milton

The wise man... if he would live at peace with others, he will bear and forbear.

— Samuel Smiles

The wise man knows nothing if he cannot benefit from his wisdom. Wisdom is not only to be acquired, but also to be utilized.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever; no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness…

— Anonymous

Wisdom we know is the knowledge of good and evil - not the strength to choose between the two.

— John Cheever

The true wisdom of man consists in the knowledge of God the creator and Redeemer.

— John Calvin

What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes? But the man who orders his life according to their teachings cannot go far wrong

— Anonymous

The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“A man can learn wisdom even from a foe”

— Aristophanes

Wisdom consisteth not in knowing many things, nor even in knowing them thoroughly; but in choosing and in following what conduces the most certainly…

— Walter Savage Landor

What doth better become wisdom than to discern what is worthy the living.

— Philip Sidney

Man is wise and constantly in quest of more wisdom; but the ultimate wisdom, which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed.

— Hal Borland