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Too often the great decisions are originated and given form in bodies made up wholly of men, or so completely dominated by them that whatever of special value women have to offer is shunted aside without expression.

Women are tenacious, and all of them should be tenacious of respect; without esteem they cannot exist; esteem is the first demand that they make of love.

Those men get along best with women who can get along best without them.

No struggle can ever succeed without women participating side by side with men.

I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.

Ignorance and bungling with love are better than wisdom and skill without.

Knowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom.

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.

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.

There's a beauty to wisdom and experience that cannot be faked. It's impossible to be mature without having lived.

Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.

If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner.

No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool. Writers, alas, have to be fools in public, while the rest of the human race can cover its tracks.

Without wisdom, the future has no meaning, no valuable purpose.

Practical wisdom is only to be learned in the school of experience. Precepts and instruction are useful so far as they go, but, without the discipline of real life, they remain of the nature of theory only.

The Divine wisdom has given us prayer, not as a means whereby to obtain the good things of earth, but as a means whereby we learn to do without them; not as a means whereby we escape evil, but as a means whereby we become strong to meet it.

It is now conventional wisdom that Americans do not care why we went to war in Iraq, that it is enough that the world is better off without Saddam Hussein.

Authority without wisdom is like a heavy ax without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish.

Rich people without wisdom and learning are but sheep with golden fleeces.

Memory is not wisdom; idiots can by rote repeat volumes. Yet what is wisdom without memory?

When I celebrated my bar mitzvah, there was no cake. Today, there is no such thing as a bar mitzvah in the United States without a special cake. It can be even more complicated and expensive than a wedding cake, because bar-mitzvah cakes are often based on a particular theme.

Ten soldiers wisely led will beat a hundred without a head.

There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it.

The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.

It is our duty still to endeavor to avoid war; but if it shall actually take place, no matter by whom brought on, we must defend ourselves. If our house be on fire, without inquiring whether it was fired from within or without, we must try to extinguish it.

Happiness is a byproduct of function, purpose, and conflict; those who seek happiness for itself seek victory without war.

You can't make war in the Middle East without Egypt and you can't make peace without Syria.

Those wars are unjust which are undertaken without provocation. For only a war waged for revenge or defense can be just.

Politics is war without bloodshed, while war is politics with bloodshed.

We can, for example, be fairly confident that either there will be a world without war or there won't be a world - at least, a world inhabited by creatures other than bacteria and beetles, with some scattering of others.