1956/01 - This is the first issue of Wisdom. Oversized magazine measures 10-1/2" X 13-1/8". It appears most of the content was previously published in other books, magazines, even speeches.

Front cover: Albert Einstein by Yousuf Karsh

Contents of this issue are as follows:

  • Key to Peace by Dwight D. Eisenhower
  • Pillars of Wisdom by Edwin B. Fred
  • Youth--Old Age by Samuel Ullman and Marcus Tullius Cicero
  • A Changing World by David Sarnoff
  • Beauty in Poetry by Percy Bysshe Shelley
  • Why Philosophy? by Max Schoen, H.G. Schrickel. Van Meter Ames
  • A Writer's Life by Somerset Maugham
  • The U.N. and the U.S. by Henry Ford, II
  • Shakespeare, Husband, Actor by Marchette Chute
  • Four Strings and a Soul by Hugh Reginald Haweis
  • The Motion Picture Director by Leo Rosten
  • A Man Named Einstein by George R. Harrison
  • My Credo by Albert Einstein
  • The Answer Lies in Questions by Ralph Bunche
  • Living With Your Heart by Marguerite Clark
  • Leonardo da Vinci by Thomas Craven
  • Last Fight in the Coliseum by Charlotte Yonge
  • The Bible by Fulton Oursler
  • Don't Fear Great Books by John Erskine
  • Whirling Illusion by George Balanchine

    • Strange Friend, Friendly Stranger by Carl Sandburg

  • The Gifted Child by Paul Witty
  • The Drama of History by Henry Thomas
  • Conquest of Happiness by Bertrand Russell
  • G.B.S. -- Professional Genius by John Mason Brown
  • The Trial of Socrates by R. Cornelius Raby
  • Art of Living by Lin Yutang
  • Audobon's Birds Had to Wait by Edward A. Muschamp
  • From the Wisdom of...Winston Churchill
  • Ten Points for the Educated Man by George A. Coe
  • On Tolerance by Mohandas K. Gandhi
  • The Secret of Personal Power by Norman Vincent Peale
  • Charge to the Jury by Harold R. Medina
  • The Character of Dogs by Robert Louis Stevenson