wisdom

The Son of man came eating and drinking, and they say, Behold a man gluttonous, and a winebibber, a friend of publicans and sinners. But wisdom is justified of her children.

Matthew 11:19, KJV

Therefore also said the wisdom of God, I will send them prophets and apostles, and some of them they shall slay and persecute: That the blood of all the prophets, which was shed from the foundation of the world, may be required of this generation; From the blood of Abel unto the blood of Zacharias, which perished between the altar and the temple: verily I say unto you, It shall be required of this generation.

Luke 11:49-51, KJV

For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God. For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent. Where is the wise? where is the scribe? where is the disputer of this world? hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world? For after that in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom knew not God, it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe.

1 Corinthians 1:18-21, KJV

For You have said unto man, Behold, the fear of the Lord is wisdom, and, Desire not to seem wise;

Augustine, Confessions

Let him that is able, hear You inwardly discoursing out of Your oracle: I will boldly cry out, How wonderful are Your works, O Lord, in Wisdom have You made them all; and this Wisdom is the Beginning, and in that Beginning did You make heaven and earth.

Augustine, Confessions

He whose stomach is full is void of wisdom. The prey is entrapped in the snare because of its greed.

Saadi, Bustan

Thy tutor gave thee not the power of wisdom; by God was it implanted in thy nature. Had He withheld this gift from thee, truth would have appeared to thee as falsehood.

Saadi, Bustan

That which was at once something comes to nothing; and this surpasses all creatures in dignity and wisdom

Saadi, Gulistan

the heritage of the prophets - namely, wisdom;

Saadi, Gulistan

The ringlets of the lovely are a chain on the feet of reason, and a snare for the bird of wisdom.

Saadi, Gulistan

Wisdom and fortune combating together, If that the former dare but what it can, No chance may shake it.

Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra, Act 3, Scene 13

Of thinking too precisely on th' event -- A thought which, quartered, hath but one part wisdom And ever three parts coward

Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act 4, Scene 4

All is the fear and nothing is the love, As little is the wisdom, where the flight So runs against all reason.

Shakespeare, Macbeth, Act 4, Scene 2

There is scarce truth enough alive to make societies secure; but security enough to make fellowships accurst much upon this riddle runs the wisdom of the world

Shakespeare, Measure for Measure, Act 3, Scene 2

The amity that wisdom knots not, folly may easily untie

Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida, Act 2, Scene 3

Herein lives wisdom, beauty, and increase; Without this, folly, age, and cold decay.

Shakespeare, Sonnet 11

The best public measures are therefore seldom adopted from previous Wisdom, but forc'd by the Occasion

Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin