Mankind Quote by William Ralph Inge

A nation may be ever so civilized and yet lack wisdom.

— Henry David Thoreau

“Do you not know, my son, with how little wisdom the world is governed?”

— Axel Oxenstierna

Mankind will never see an end of trouble until lovers of wisdom come to hold political power, or the holders of power become lovers…

— Anonymous

It's surprising how much wisdom every man possesses -- if not for his own affairs, then for the affairs of others.

— Evan Esar

It is not wisdom but Authority that makes a law

— Thomas Hobbes

there is nothing so easy as to be wise for others; a species of prodigality, by-the-by - for such wisdom is wholly wasted.

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.

— Edmund Burke

What we call wisdom is the result of all the wisdom of past ages. Our best institutions are like young trees growing upon the…

— Henry Ward Beecher

Of all our possessions, wisdom alone is imortal.

— Isocrates

Wisdom is the intelligence of the system as a whole.

— Gregory Bateson

How is it possible to live in world where people can rule millions of others? It's incredible! It's like we've gone back to the…

— Jon Lee Anderson

“Wisdom without power would be pathetic, a broken reed; power without wisdom would be merely frightening; but in God boundless wisdom and endless power…

— J.I. Packer