Gains Quote by Plautus

Wisdom is the conqueror of fortune. [Lat., Victrix fortunae sapientia.]

— Juvenal

“Wisdom is a unique manifestation of God, a catalyst for transformation of the human person's life into one of fight and goodness.”

— Joyce Rupp

“QUO QUIS EO SAPIENTIOR BEATIOR EST (THE WISE A MAN, THE HAPPIER HE IS)”

— Udeke Charles

“Wisdom is the central form which gives meaning and position to all the facts which are acquired by knowledge, the digestion and assimilation of…

— Northrop Frye

“For in much wisdom is much vexation, and he who increases knowledge increases sorrow.”

— Ecclesiastes 1 18

“Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness; and reverence towards the Gods must be inviolate. Great words of prideful men are ever punished with…

— Sophocles

Nature never says one thing, Wisdom another. [Lat., Nunquam aliud Natura aliud Sapientia dicit.]

— Juvenal

“I aspire to wisdom, my lady. I do not believe I possess it, not yet. But my lord Ptolemy Solon holds that happiness is…

— Jacqueline Carey

“Thus the effect of his gift of wisdom is to make us more humble, more joyful, more godly, more quick-sighted as to his will,…

— J.I. Packer

“Wisdom-loving” translates philosophos. (If I dared, I’d translate it “wannabe-wise” as opposed to sophos, “having smarts,” skillful.)”

— Eva Brann

“Wisdom is the fruit of a balanced development.”

— Alfred North Whitehead

Wisdom consists in doing the next thing that you have to do, doing it with your whole heart and finding delight in it —…

— Helen M. Luke