What's most interesting about wisdom is that the best things said about it have been voiced many times. There’s a universal understanding of wisdom that transcends time and place.

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Below is an excerpt from On Faith, a daily online religion section sponsored by The Washington Post and Newsweek. Each week, Sally Quinn engages figures from the world of faith in a conversation ...

This notion—that our country’s roots are explicitly Christian—is both foolish and wrong, for it devalues the Christian faith and disrespects the genius of the founding fathers.

Emily Dickinson, born in 1830, is one of the most important people in the realm of American poetry. She spent much of her time writing in isolation.

Still, other quotes talked about how wisdom-related (positively or negatively) to other qualities, such as power, courage, cowardice, or greed. But because, ultimately, the point they made had ...