"Books give not wisdom where none was before. But where some is, there reading makes it more." ― Elizabeth Hardwick Topic(s): Wisdom More From Elizabeth Hardwick "Adversity is a great teacher, but this teacher makes us pay dearly for its instruction; and often the profit we derive, is not worth the price we paid." "The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination." More In Wisdom "If God had sufficient wisdom and power to construct such a beautiful world as this, then we must admit that his wisdom and power are immeasurably greater than that of man, and hence he is qualified to reign as king."― Orson Pratt "Wisdom begins in wonder."― Socrates "Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom."― Walter Benjamin