To keep your secret is wisdom but to expect others to keep it is folly.

Wisdom is that apprehension of heavenly things to which the spirit rises through love.

Back of every mistaken venture and defeat is the laughter of wisdom if you listen.

If suffering brings wisdom I would wish to be less wise.

The hours of folly are measured by the clock but of wisdom no clock can measure.

Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.

Rightly defined philosophy is simply the love of wisdom.

We must expect reverses even defeats. They are sent to teach us wisdom and prudence to call forth greater energies and to prevent our falling into greater disasters.

I am thinking of taking a fifth wife. Why not? Solomon had a thousand wives and he is a synonym for wisdom.

Earthly wisdom is doing what comes naturally. Godly wisdom is doing what the Holy Spirit compels us to do.

I learned some valuable lessons about the legislative process the importance of bipartisan cooperation and the wisdom of taking small steps to get a big job done.

The older I get the more wisdom I find in the ancient rule of taking first things first. A process which often reduces the most complex human problem to a manageable proportion.

I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue speak and they are but hairs as in the young.

Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life - in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk and to make our words and actions all of a color.

In order to have wisdom we must have ignorance.

We give advice but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it.

We don't receive wisdom we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.

But what is liberty without wisdom and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils for it is folly vice and madness without tuition or restraint.

Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people to discourage them from ambitious attempts and generally console them in their mediocrity.

Kisses are a better fate than wisdom.

Cunning... is but the low mimic of wisdom.

Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

No party has a monopoly on wisdom. No democracy works without compromise. But when Governor Romney and his allies in Congress tell us we can somehow lower our deficit by spending trillions more on new tax breaks for the wealthy - well you do the math. I refuse to go along with that. And as long as I'm President I never will.