A Quote by John Selden

Wit and wisdom differ; wit is upon the sudden turn, wisdom is bringing about ends.

John Selden

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John Selden
English - Statesman
December 16, 1584 - November 30, 1654

Most of you probably didn't know that I have a new book out. Some guy put together a collection of my wit and wisdom - or, as he calls it, my accidental wit and wisdom. But I'm kind of proud that my words are already in book form.

George W. Bush

By wit we search divine aspect above, By wit we learn what secrets science yields, By wit we speak, by wit the mind is rul'd, By wit we govern all our actions; Wit is the loadstar of each human thought, Wit is the tool by which all things are wrought.

Robert Greene

For, until the wisdom of men bear some proportion to the wisdom of God, their attempts to find out the structure of his works, by the force of their wit and genius, will be vain.

Thomas Reid

After wisdom comes wit.

Evan Esar

Wit is artificial; humor is natural. Wit is accidental; humor is inevitable. Wit is born of conscious effort; humor, of the allotted ironies of fate. Wit can be expressed only in language; humor can be developed sufficiently in situation.

Agnes Repplier

Wit and wisdom are born with a man.

John Selden

A proverb is the wisdom of many and the wit of one.

Lord John Russell

A proverb is one man's wit and all men's wisdom.

Bertrand Russell

Will is guided by wisdom. Wisdom comes from introspection, looking inside yourself, probing, studying the wisdom of the teachers, the masters and bringing that into your mind.

Frederick Lenz

An epigram is the marriage of wit and wisdom; a wisecrack, their divorce.

Evan Esar

The mind, relaxing into needful sport, Should turn to writers of an abler sort, Whose wit well managed, and whose classic style, Give truth a lustre, and make wisdom smile.