Government is a contrivance proverb

 Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. People have the right to expect that these wants will be provided for by this wisdom.

 Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. Men have a right that these wants should be provided for by this wisdom.
  Edmund Burke

 Wisdom is on a higher plane, and as human beings, it's part of our 'being-ness' to have the capacity to manifest wisdom through creativity.

 Should it be said that the Greeks discovered philosophy by human wisdom, I reply that I find the Scriptures declare all wisdom to be a divine gift

 The law is the last result of human wisdom acting upon human experience for the benefit of the public
  Samuel Johnson

 Human wisdom is the aggregate of all human experience, constantly accumulating, selecting, and reorganizing its own materials.
  Joseph Story

 Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.
  Buddha

 The human interest is enough - the fact that millions are dying from preventable, curable diseases. But if the human interest isn't enough, then wisdom will tell you that self-preservation is.
  Brad Pitt

 CRAYFISH, n. A small crustacean very much resembling the lobster, but less indigestible.

In this small fish I take it that human wisdom is admirably figured and symbolized; for whereas the crayfish doth move only backward, and can have only retrospection, seeing naught but the perils already passed, so the wisdom of man doth not enable him to avoid the follies that beset his course, but only to apprehend their nature afterward. --Sir James Merivale
  Ambrose Bierce

 There is no such thing as human wisdom; all is the providence of God

 To know and love another human being is the root of all wisdom
  Evelyn Waugh

 And Solomon's wisdom excelled the wisdom of all the children of the east country, and all the wisdom of Egypt.

 The only thing that we know is that we know nothing and that is the highest flight of human wisdom.
  Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy

 All human wisdom is summed up in two words - wait and hope
  Alexandre Dumas Père

 All human wisdom is summed up in two words - wait and hope
  Alexandre Dumas Père


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