All human wisdom is summed up in two words; wait and hope.

All human wisdom works and has worries and grief as reward.

So he went down, smiling sceptically and mutter the final word in human wisdom: 'Perhaps!

Since human wisdom cannot secure us from accidents, it is the greatest effort of reason to bear them well.

It is almost everywhere the case that soon after it is begotten the greater part of human wisdom is laid to rest in repositories.

Except for the grace of God, I would be nobody - and that grace is the opposite of merit - human labour, education or human wisdom.

Abstracting human wisdom into models often works better than relying on human experts as models are often more consistent and less noisy.

Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. People have the right to expect that these wants will be provided for by this wisdom.

War involves in its progress such a train of unforeseen circumstances that no human wisdom can calculate the end; it has but one thing certain, and that is to increase taxes.

If we have built on the fragile cornerstones of human wisdom, pride, and conditional love, things may look good for a while, but a weak foundation causes collapse when storms hit.

Who knows for what we live, and struggle, and die? Wise men write many books, in words too hard to understand. But this, the purpose of our lives, the end of all our struggle, is beyond all human wisdom.

History is filled with tragic examples of wars that result from diplomatic impasse. Whether in our local communities or in international relations, the skillful use of our communicative capacities to negotiate and resolve differences is the first evidence of human wisdom.

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