Done Quote by Stephen Vincent Benet

We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.

— Stephen Vincent Benet

Let [us] seek for wisdom instead of power and [we] will have all the power [we] have wisdom to exercise.

— Eliza R. Snow

Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use.

— Thomas J. Watson

In order to have wisdom we must have ignorance.

— Theodore Dreiser

It is wisdom to think upon anything before we execute it.

— Plautus

What we call wisdom is the result of all the wisdom of past ages.

— Henry Ward Beecher

We need wisdom the most when we believe in it the least.

— Hans Jonas

Wisdom is a conundrum. If I had done the wise thing every time, it would have never allowed me to obtain all the wisdom…

— T Jay Taylor

Was not this ... what we spoke of as the great advantage of wisdom -- to know what is known and what is unknown…

— Plato

wisdom comes to us when it can no longer do any good.

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

People want power but not wisdom. Power without wisdom is a very dangerous thing. Better to have wisdom first.

— Frederick Lenz