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"Yale is a crucible in American life for the accommodation of intellectual achievement, of wisdom, of refinement, with the democratic ideals of openness, of social justice and of equal opportunity."
"A proverb is the wisdom of many and the wit of one."
"Wisdom denotes the pursuing of the best ends by the best means."
"This ceremony and the intellectual aura associated with the Nobel Prizes have grown from the wisdom of a practical chemist who wrote a remarkable will."
"I actually think with age comes some level of wisdom."
"The result showed the wisdom of your orders."
"Knowledge is a process of piling up facts wisdom lies in their simplification."
"In regard of the rich grace and wisdom of his love toward his people for who sees not, but that it is a curse to be unready as these foolish virgins, who were therefore shut out."
"One reason the human race has such a low opinion of itself is that it gets so much of its wisdom from writers."
"I think in conventional magazine wisdom, you need to have a redesign every decade or so."
"Instead of looking at life as a narrowing funnel, we can see it ever widening to choose the things we want to do, to take the wisdom we've learned and create something."
"Hatred is corrosive of a person's wisdom and conscience the mentality of enmity can poison a nation's spirit, instigate brutal life and death struggles, destroy a society's tolerance and humanity, and block a nation's progress to freedom and democracy."
"We don't pray for the land. We pray for the humans, all humans... starting with the president, Mohammed Morsi, and all officials, and for God to give everyone wisdom and responsibility to manage the affairs of this country and its people in true Egyptian spirit."
"If the highest things are unknowable, then the highest capacity or virtue of man cannot be theoretical wisdom."
"I chose Sony Classics, not just because of their practical experience, not just because of their wisdom in marketing, but mainly because of their integrity."
"What could be more lonely than to be enveloped in silence, to be the last of your people to speak your native tongue, to have no way to pass on the wisdom of the elders, to anticipate the promise of the children. This tragic fate is indeed the plight of someone somewhere roughly every two weeks."
"And, if we have any evidence that the wisdom which formed the plan is in the man, we have the very same evidence, that the power which executed it is in him also."
"As an instrument for practical action, law is responsive to the wisdom of its time, which may be wrong, but it carries forward, sometimes in opposition to this wisdom or passion, a memory of received values."
"I don't want to put a pause on the rest of my life I'm really enjoying getting older and the wisdom that comes from that."
"Your law may be perfect, your knowledge of human affairs may be such as to enable you to apply it with wisdom and skill, and yet without individual acquaintance with men, their haunts and habits, the pursuit of the profession becomes difficult, slow, and expensive."
"To avoid entangling alliances has been a maxim of our policy ever since the days of Washington, and its wisdom no one will attempt to dispute."
"Wisdom sails with wind and time."
"And it is no less true, that personal security and private property rest entirely upon the wisdom, the stability, and the integrity of the courts of justice."
"Books give not wisdom where none was before. But where some is, there reading makes it more."
"I see a wiser person than when I was younger: having babies, and passing 30, were the turning points. What women in their 40s - I am 39 - lack in gorgeousness, they make up for in wisdom. I love ageing, despite the drawbacks - thinner, drier skin."
"Be there a will, and wisdom finds a way."
"I continue to believe, contrary to the given wisdom, that it's more interesting to have an album - or, indeed, an individual song - which has variety rather than homogeneity."
"Memory is not wisdom idiots can by rote repeat volumes. Yet what is wisdom without memory?"
"There's always a miasma of misinformation emerging from the higher education sector as to which are the 'best' courses to take. My advice would always be to ignore the perceived wisdom and look for the most reliable evidence on the ground."
"They are few in the midst of an overwhelming mass of brute force, and their submission is wisdom but for a nation like England to submit to be robbed by any invader who chooses to visit her shores seemed to me to be nonsense."
"But the law of God came from heaven indeed. God wrote it with his finger, it is the fountain of all wisdom, and therefore shall it continue for ever, and never have an end."
"Wisdom prepares for the worst, but folly leaves the worst for the day when it comes."
"It may be assumed as an axiom that Providence has never gifted any political party with all of political wisdom or blinded it with all of political folly."
"I am not one who was born in the custody of wisdom I am one who is fond of olden times and intense in quest of the sacred knowing of the ancients."
"After all my possessions had been burned, God gave me the wisdom to return to Jerusalem."
"Any successful nominee should possess both the temperament to interpret the law and the wisdom to do so fairly. The next Supreme Court Justice should have a record of protecting individual rights and a strong willingness to put aside any political agenda."
"India is known for its sobriety and wisdom, balanced and sensible thinking. We need strong institutions and we need good governance in the country."
"The study of history is the beginning of political wisdom."
"Much of the wisdom of one age, is the folly of the next."
"Writing is no dying art form in America because most published writers here accept the wisdom and the necessity of encouraging the talent that follows in their footsteps."
"Wisdom alone is true ambition's aim, wisdom the source of virtue, and of fame, obtained with labour, for mankind employed, and then, when most you share it, best enjoyed."
"However, I must not indulge in homespun wisdom here before so distinguished an assembly, especially as I am to be followed by a representative of science."
"The 'wisdom of the crowds' is the most ridiculous statement I've heard in my life. Crowds are dumb."
"This age thinks better of a gilded fool Than of a threadbare saint in wisdom's school."
"Follow the wisdom of the great actor, James Cagney, you hit your mark, you look the other guy in the eye, and you tell the truth."
"You want people walking away from the conversation with some kernel of wisdom or some kind of impact."
"If they can prove that I am wrong by that time, I will give it up to their wisdom, but not after to any one's judgment, till I see the end of another year for the Lord will begin with a new century and I will see what he will do, before I will hearken to any man's judgment."
"Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus."
"Remembering is painful, it's difficult, but it can be inspiring and it can give wisdom."
"He read his mind. He's a strange sort of man, isn't he? It's not just the advice and the wisdom that he has."
"All human wisdom works and has worries and grief as reward."
"The current wisdom now is that if the three networks are covering the news the same way the difference is the anchor people. I think that won't be true in the future."
"As far as feeling freedom in my career now versus five years ago... I think if I feel any more free it's simply because of the experiences that I've had, and the wisdom I've accumulated from that time."
"It is not white hair that engenders wisdom."
"I left school at 16 but I wish I'd gone to university - I think I would have studied English literature. I had a knack for that. But I don't think you have the kind of wisdom at 16 to make that decision."
"To know one's self is wisdom, but not to know one's neighbors is genius."
"The most important lesson of New Labour is this: Every time we made progress we did it by challenging the conventional wisdom."
"I find the fact that billionaires are quoted as if the fact that they are billionaires gives them some kind of wisdom is outrageous."
"Books should to one of these fours ends conduce, for wisdom, piety, delight, or use."
"What's different now is that while political leaders used to give talking points to talk radio, now talk-radio hosts are giving talking points to political leaders. It's all part of the suffocating spin cycle we're in. In media, politics and publishing, the conventional wisdom is to play to this base."
"Doubt the conventional wisdom unless you can verify it with reason and experiment."
"Wisdom and goodness are twin-born, one heart must hold both sisters, never seen apart."
"You know, it's sort of common wisdom among New York publishers that short story collections don't make money."
"The constitutions of Maryland and New York are founded in higher wisdom."
"In justice to human society it may perhaps be said of almost all the polities and civil institutions in the world, however imperfect, that they have been founded in and carried on with very considerable wisdom."
"A monarchy conducted with infinite wisdom and infinite benevolence is the most perfect of all possible governments."
"We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom."
"But the Wisdom of God, which is His only-begotten Son, being in all respects incapable of change or alteration, and every good quality in Him being essential, and such as cannot be changed and converted, His glory is therefore declared to be pure and sincere."
"I have tried at every point to seek God's wisdom on the decisions I made, and I made it my business to speak up on behalf of the things God tells us are important to Him."
"What I lack in energy, I have in wisdom."
"Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two."
"Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be."
"Words of wisdom are spoken by children at least as often as scientists."
"Now it is time to turn to an older wisdom that, while respecting material comfort and security as a basic right of all, also recognises that many of the most valuable things in life cannot be measured."
"He whose wisdom cannot help him, gets no good from being wise."
"Pessimism is only the name that men of weak nerves give to wisdom."
"Every indication of wisdom, taken from the effect, is equally an indication of power to execute what wisdom planned."
"This land, which we have watered with our tears and our blood, is now our mother country, and we are well satisfied to stay where wisdom abounds and gospel is free."
"Nobility of spirit has more to do with simplicity than ostentation, wisdom rather than wealth, commitment rather than ambition."
"Lord, give us the wisdom to utter words that are gentle and tender, for tomorrow we may have to eat them."
"But I do think it's important to remember that writers do not have a monopoly of wisdom on their books. They can be wrong about their own books, they can often learn about their own books."
"But in its final creation it was not the part of the Father's power to fail as though exhausted. It was not the part of His wisdom to waver in a needful matter through poverty of counsel."
"To keep your secret is wisdom to expect others to keep it is folly."
"I covered my face because they had taken my wisdom teeth out."
"Dr. Johnson has said that the chief glory of a country arises from its authors. But then that is only as they are oracles of wisdom unless they teach virtue, they are more worthy of a halter than of the laurel."
"I'm not a money manager, but I can tell you what the conventional wisdom is. The younger you are, the more risk you can take on."
"Pain is the doorway to wisdom and to truth."
"Mainstream media tend to just mouth the conventional wisdom, to see everything through the filter of right and left."
"We have heeded no wisdom offering guidance."
"It is costly wisdom that is bought by experience."
"Preconceived notions are the locks on the door to wisdom."
"Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late."
"There's the conventional wisdom, of which I have none, where you get a record deal, you get a publicist, you get a campaign, and you do the tour, but none of that adds up to things like nuance and subtlety and dynamic."
"If we can return to a government that the Founders, in their wisdom, envisioned for us, we can return to a government that will allow our economy to thrive again, and our people to live in liberty."
"When I wrote Living in the Light, I wanted to share about how I live my own life and to encourage people to tap into their own inner wisdom."
"Even by common wisdom, there seem to be both people and objects in my dream that are outside myself, but clearly they were created in myself and are part of me, they are mental constructs in my own brain."
"I probably wouldn't be a songwriter if I didn't grow up the way I did. It was difficult and it was at times very scary to grow up in a household so unsettled and at times very violent. But, it also, I guess it earned me a sort of wisdom at a young age that's served me well."
"The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions."
"Whether the aim is in heaven or on earth, wisdom or wealth, the essential condition of its pursuit and attainment is always security and order."
"Analysts may be correct that the presidential election won't primarily turn on entitlements reform, but by choosing Paul Ryan as his running mate, Mitt Romney can, contrary to conventional wisdom, make it a winning issue and lay the foundation for a reform mandate when he wins."
"Wisdom is keeping a sense of fallibility of all our views and opinions."
"It is not from reason that justice springs, but goodness is born of wisdom."
"Wisdom finds its literary expression in wisdom literature."
"This is perhaps the most profound meaning of the book of Job, the best example of wisdom."
"I do interviews because it's a chance to be myself. I sometimes wonder what I could have to say that would be of any interest. I don't have any great wisdom."
"For the subtlest folly proceeds from the subtlest wisdom."
"Theology in general seems to me a substitution of human ingenuity for divine wisdom."
"Conventional wisdom holds that setting a timetable for getting American troops out of Iraq would be a mistake."
"Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun."
"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."
"Every journey that is successful has culs-de-sac and speed bumps. I carry a wisdom gene through my life through the good, the bad, and the ugly."
"After a gig I always head back to the hotel, remembering granny's words of wisdom. I cancel the late-night pizza and watch the Jonathan Ross show instead."
"We do not sit as a superlegislature to weigh the wisdom of legislation."
"Ask Elizabeth is a community of voices, it's not me standing on a podium telling people how to run their lives, it's girls helping each other sharing their wisdom and advice and I create a space for them to do it."
"I'm someone who's done the opposite of whatever the received wisdom is, to keep your career going into your 50s."
"Clinton is a big personality who has led a big life, and for some of the media conventional wisdom to boil it down to a view that 'all people are really interested in' are a few moments of madness in the Oval Office gets him, the importance of the presidency, and the significance of his life, all wrong."
"To suppose more than one supreme Source of infinite wisdom, power, and all perfections, is to assert that there is no supreme Being in existence."
"I feel increasingly like age is very irrelevant. Quite often, cynicism is confused with wisdom, and my scorn is confused with a knowing, which I don't have."
"Even wisdom has to yield to self-interest."
"To light one candle to God and another to the Devil is the principle of wisdom."
"The wisdom acquired with the passage of time is a useless gift unless you share it."
"The first point of wisdom is to discern that which is false the second, to know that which is true."
"This fear of the Lord is indeed the beginning of wisdom. This consciousness of sin is the straight pathway to heaven."
"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."
"The beginning of wisdom is to desire it."
"This society in which we live is radically changing. What previous generations saw as evil is now embraced as being good. It is a dangerous and slippery slope upon which we stand when we reject what Solomon called the beginning of wisdom - the fear of God."
"Spend time reflecting on your emotional and physical existence and how that applies to the voice. You have to apply that wisdom and experience when you sing - it's what comes through."
"Wisdom is not acquired save as the result of investigation."
"And when the world is created, it is created in such a way that those eternal objects of God's loving wisdom become actualities - interacting with one another, relating to God in the finite realm."
"The thing that we possess, that machines don't, is the ability to exhibit wisdom."
"We live in a culture that doesn't acknowledge or validate human intuition and doesn't encourage us to rely on our intuitive wisdom."
"We all have within us a deep wisdom, but sometimes we don't know we have it."
"True wisdom listens more, talks less and can get along with all types of people."
"You know how people always talk about how vision is the key to entrepreneurship and perseverance and really seeing what other people don't see? We can actually redeem a fair amount of that folk wisdom."
"As I visited the various neighborhoods in the campaign, I learned fast that it's a mistake to think that all of the wisdom and possible solutions to our problems are available only in this building."
"I've always shied away from conventional wisdom, though I know the power of it."
"Authority without wisdom is like a heavy ax without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish."
"A wholesome oblivion of one's neighbours is the beginning of wisdom."
"We learned in World War II that no single nation holds a monopoly on wisdom, morality or right to power, but that we must fight for the weak and promote democracy."
"As great as Ed is, the wisdom out here is that he can't carry a movie. They'll pay him $3 million to be the second banana in Julia Roberts things. But they won't put up $3 million for an Ed Harris movie."
"The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living, which are to be desired when dying."
"What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes?"
"Normally street children are shown in terms of the tragedy of their lives - which is true - but there's also another dimension: their wisdom, dignity and enormous capacity for survival."
"Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains."
"Old myths, old gods, old heroes have never died. They are only sleeping at the bottom of our mind, waiting for our call. We have need for them. They represent the wisdom of our race."
"Your art kind of changes as you get older, by nature of the fact that you're hopefully gaining wisdom and you're starting to watch things with a better overview."
"Surely, God on high has not refused to give us enough wisdom to find ways to bring us an improvement in relations between the two great nations on earth."
"Our experience is composed rather of illusions that of wisdom acquired."
"However great an evil immorality may be, we must not forget that it is not without its beneficial consequences. It is only through extremes that men can arrive at the middle path of wisdom and virtue."
"Books are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom."
"Unhappy is that Grandeur which makes us too great to be good and that Wit which sets us at a distance from true Wisdom."
"The Relation we bear to the Wisdom of the Father, the Son of His Love, gives us indeed a dignity which otherwise we have no pretence to. It makes us something, something considerable even in God's Eyes."
"Although it has been said by men of more wit than wisdom, and perhaps more malice than either, that women are naturally incapable of acting prudently, or that they are necessarily determined to folly, I must by no means grant it."
"A great memory is never made synonymous with wisdom, any more than a dictionary would be called a treatise."
"When you're used to being prepared to reject conventional wisdom, it leaves you open to learn more."
"I find that to be a fool as to worldly wisdom, and to commit my cause to God, not fearing to offend men, who take offence at the simplicity of truth, is the only way to remain unmoved at the sentiments of others."
"Humility is the only true wisdom by which we prepare our minds for all the possible changes of life."
"I am a poor student sitting at the feet of giants, yearning for their wisdom and begging for lessons that might one day make me a complete artist, so that if all goes well, I may one day sit beside them."
"Contemplation and wisdom are highest achievements and man is not totally at home with them."
"I always told, Sandra Bullock was my student when she was younger, I always told her it's important that we hold on to our insecurity, the wisdom of insecurity."
"Never accept ultimatums, conventional wisdom, or absolutes."
"As a parent and a citizen, I'll take a Bill Gates (or Warren Buffett) over Steve Jobs every time. If we must have billionaires, better they should ignore Jobs's example and instead embrace the morality and wisdom of the great industrialist-philanthropist Andrew Carnegie."
"I always prayed that God would give me the wisdom and the vision to do the things on this earth that I was supposed to do to express His life and love and His will."
"It's very hard to know what wisdom is."
"The greatest wisdom is to realize one's lack of it."
"Has fortune dealt you some bad cards. Then let wisdom make you a good gamester."
"I don't think I really have any wisdom. Stay out of trouble. Good luck. Stay away from women because they will burn you, haha."
"Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom."
"It is astonishing what force, purity, and wisdom it requires for a human being to keep clear of falsehoods."
"If to live is to progress, if you are lucky, from foolishness to wisdom, then to write novels is to broadcast the various stages of your foolishness."
"Economists often like startling theorems, results which seem to run counter to conventional wisdom."
"Many people have their reputations as reporters and analysts because they are on television, batting around conventional wisdom. A lot of these people have never reported a story."
"The plan was criticized by some retired military officers embedded in TV studios. But with every advance by our coalition forces, the wisdom of that plan becomes more apparent."
"We all admire the wisdom of people who come to us for advice."
"The clouds may drop down titles and estates, and wealth may seek us, but wisdom must be sought."
"The weak have remedies, the wise have joys superior wisdom is superior bliss."
"It may almost be a question whether such wisdom as many of us have in our mature years has not come from the dying out of the power of temptation, rather than as the results of thought and resolution."
"One part of wisdom is knowing what you don't need anymore and letting it go."
"There is a trade off - as you grow older you gain wisdom but you lose spontaneity."
"He was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the rich."
"Silence and reserve will give anyone a reputation for wisdom."
"It's received wisdom that the English are uniquely child-unfriendly."
"If an idea is indeed sensible, it will eventually become just part of the accepted wisdom."
"Spending two years on my uncle's ranch in Montana as a young man gave me the wisdom and the thrust to do westerns."
"The most excellent and divine counsel, the best and most profitable advertisement of all others, but the least practiced, is to study and learn how to know ourselves. This is the foundation of wisdom and the highway to whatever is good."
"If you have a vaccine or an antidote that people can benefit from, you're not going to want to keep it to yourself. You're going to want to spread that wisdom or whatever to as many people as you can, so everybody can benefit from it."
"Focus on the mind and the soul. Read. Study. Enrol in a course of lectures. Pray. Become a member of a religious congregation. Study the Bible or other ancient works of wisdom."
"It has become part of the accepted wisdom to say that the twentieth century was the century of physics and the twenty-first century will be the century of biology."
"I acknowledge the privilege of being alive in a human body at this moment, endowed with senses, memories, emotions, thoughts, and the space of mind in its wisdom aspect."
"Now our founding fathers had the wisdom to know that social acceptance and popularity were fleeing, and that this country's principles needed to be rooted in strengths greater than the passions and the emotions of the times."
"Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency."
"Vanity can easily overtake wisdom. It usually overtakes common sense."
"Purity engenders Wisdom, Passion avarice, and Ignorance folly, infatuation and darkness."
"Saudi Arabia is a puritanical state that claims a monopoly of wisdom and virtue."
"I always see where I didn't do things the right way. I only see the heavy lifting. That's a bit of my wisdom, if you want to call it that."
"The left has come to regard common sense - the traditional wisdom and folkways of the community - as an obstacle to progress and enlightenment."
"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."
"Wisdom is knowing when you can't be wise."
"I'm not wise, but the beginning of wisdom is there it's like relaxing into - and an acceptance of - things."
"Sometimes one likes foolish people for their folly, better than wise people for their wisdom."
"Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences."
"My mother is a great source of advice and wisdom and consolation for me."
"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."
"In my own personal life, God plays a great role in the risk, because I pray before I go into the operating room for every case, and I ask him to give me wisdom, to help me to know what to do - and not only for operating, but for everything."
"All free governments are managed by the combined wisdom and folly of the people."
"Wisdom consists not so much in knowing what to do in the ultimate as knowing what to do next."
"Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next."
"It is almost everywhere the case that soon after it is begotten the greater part of human wisdom is laid to rest in repositories."
"To build a great company, which is a CEO's job, sometimes you have to stand up against conventional wisdom."
"Wisdom and understanding can only become the possession of individual men by travelling the old road of observation, attention, perseverance, and industry."
"You know, many people have said that I'm on the edge and I'm maverick for some of the big operations that I've done. I'm not at all. I pray I ask God to give me wisdom, 'Should I do it?', guidance in terms of how to do it, who to consult with. All those kind of things are incredibly important."
"Sciences may be learned by rote, but wisdom not."
"Around '93, '94, the conventional wisdom about the Internet was that it was a toy for academics and researchers. So it was very, very underestimated for about two years."
"Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability."
"The more I work with the body, keeping my assumptions in a temporary state of reservation, the more I appreciate and sympathize with a given disease. The body no longer appears as a sick or irrational demon, but as a process with its own inner logic and wisdom."
"Whenever you argue with another wiser than yourself in order that others may admire your wisdom, they will discover your ignorance."
"Logic is the beginning of wisdom, not the end."
"Great wisdom is generous petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech cantankerous."
"I don't turn to greeting cards for wisdom and advice, but they are a fine reflection of the general drift of the culture."
"In the frank expression of conflicting opinions lies the greatest promise of wisdom in governmental action."
"The wisdom of God's Word is quite clear on believers being unequally yoked. And marrying someone who is not a Christian - who is not a daily disciple of Christ - is being unequally yoked, regardless of what their beliefs might be."
"I don't think you can come into your wisdom until you have made mistakes on your own skin and felt them in reality of your own life."
"Men who know themselves are no longer fools. They stand on the threshold of the door of Wisdom."
"Novels are the Socratic dialogues of our time. Practical wisdom fled from school wisdom into this liberal form."
"I actually don't think that I'm that much smarter than anybody else. It's just that I frequently just seem to know what to do, and I think that's wisdom."
"A man may learn wisdom even from a foe."
"Mixing one's wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably."
"The pine stays green in winter... wisdom in hardship."
"People always blame the girl she should have said no. A monosyllable, but conventional wisdom has always been that boys can't manage it."
"Who knows for what we live, and struggle, and die? Wise men write many books, in words too hard to understand. But this, the purpose of our lives, the end of all our struggle, is beyond all human wisdom."
"If I am fool, it is, at least, a doubting one and I envy no one the certainty of his self-approved wisdom."
"Full of wisdom are the ordinations of fate."
"It seems to me that, in every culture, I come across a chapter headed 'Wisdom.' And then I know exactly what is going to follow: 'Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.'"
"The word philosophy sounds high-minded, but it simply means the love of wisdom. If you love something, you don't just read about it you hug it, you mess with it, you play with it, you argue with it."
"They would need to be already wise, in order to love wisdom."
"It is good even for old men to learn wisdom."
"Pain makes man think. Thought makes man wise. Wisdom makes life endurable."
"There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives."
"I believe we have become paralyzed, paralyzed by our desire to be loved. Now our founding fathers had the wisdom to know that social acceptance and popularity were fleeing, and that this country's principles needed to be rooted in strengths greater than the passions and the emotions of the times."
"Every speaker has a mouth An arrangement rather neat. Sometimes it's filled with wisdom. Sometimes it's filled with feet."
"Great wisdom is generous petty wisdom is contentious."
"We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already."
"That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in another."
"True wisdom is less presuming than folly. The wise man doubteth often, and changeth his mind the fool is obstinate, and doubteth not he knoweth all things but his own ignorance."
"The stupidity of people comes from having an answer for everything. The wisdom of the novel comes from having a question for everything."
"Doubt is the vestibule through which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom."
"Discipline is wisdom and vice versa."
"The truest greatness lies in being kind, the truest wisdom in a happy mind."
"Moderation is the inseparable companion of wisdom, but with it genius has not even a nodding acquaintance."
"We are to seek wisdom and understanding only in the length of days."
"It is not wisdom but Authority that makes a law."
"Wisdom is humble that he knows no more."
"In my definition of consciousness, consciousness is the same thing as life. What wisdom traditions also call spirit."
"To profit from good advice requires more wisdom than to give it."
"The extreme limit of wisdom, that's what the public calls madness."
"Lord, bless me with the ability to achieve all that I can, and the wisdom to realize it doesn't all have to be by tomorrow!"
"If you were to offer a thirsty man all wisdom, you would not please him more than if you gave him a drink."
"Wisdom is oftentimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar."
"He who is taught to live upon little owes more to his father's wisdom than he who has a great deal left him does to his father's care."
"The hunger for facile wisdom is the root of all false philosophy."
"Much wisdom often goes with fewest words."
"To think ill of mankind and not wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue."
"The enemy of the conventional wisdom is not ideas but the march of events."
"One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know."
"Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass."
"Every nation whose affairs betray a want of wisdom and stability may calculate on every loss which can be sustained from the more systematic policy of its wiser neighbors."
"Not engaging in ignorance is wisdom."
"Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack. We give it orders which make no sense."
"Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom."
"Some wisdom you must learn from one who's wise."
"Though sages may pour out their wisdom's treasure, there is no sterner moralist than pleasure."
"Irony is the gaiety of reflection and the joy of wisdom."
"The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all other woes of mankind, is wisdom. Teach a man to read and write, and you have put into his hands the great keys of the wisdom box. But it is quite another thing to open the box."
"At sixty, I know little more about wisdom than I did at thirty, but I know a great deal more about folly."
"The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness."
"What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?"
"The final wisdom of life requires not the annulment of incongruity but the achievement of serenity within and above it."
"If we have built on the fragile cornerstones of human wisdom, pride, and conditional love, things may look good for a while, but a weak foundation causes collapse when storms hit."
"The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool the truest heroism is to resist the doubt and the profoundest wisdom, to know when it ought to be resisted, and when it be obeyed."
"Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech."
"A short saying often contains much wisdom."
"I prefer the folly of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom."
"Wisdom comes by disillusionment."
"Enraging liberals is simply one of the more enjoyable side effects of my wisdom."
"I will give you a definition of a proud man: he is a man who has neither vanity nor wisdom one filled with hatreds cannot be vain, neither can he be wise."
"More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us."
"In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause."
"To keep your secret is wisdom but to expect others to keep it is folly."
"Wisdom is that apprehension of heavenly things to which the spirit rises through love."
"Back of every mistaken venture and defeat is the laughter of wisdom, if you listen."
"If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise."
"The hours of folly are measured by the clock but of wisdom, no clock can measure."
"Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise."
"Rightly defined philosophy is simply the love of wisdom."
"We must expect reverses, even defeats. They are sent to teach us wisdom and prudence, to call forth greater energies, and to prevent our falling into greater disasters."
"I am thinking of taking a fifth wife. Why not? Solomon had a thousand wives and he is a synonym for wisdom."
"Earthly wisdom is doing what comes naturally. Godly wisdom is doing what the Holy Spirit compels us to do."
"I learned some valuable lessons about the legislative process, the importance of bipartisan cooperation and the wisdom of taking small steps to get a big job done."
"The older I get the more wisdom I find in the ancient rule of taking first things first. A process which often reduces the most complex human problem to a manageable proportion."
"I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance."
"Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young."
"Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life - in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk and to make our words and actions all of a color."
"In order to have wisdom we must have ignorance."
"We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it."
"We don't receive wisdom we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us."
"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."
"Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them in their mediocrity."
"Kisses are a better fate than wisdom."
"Cunning... is but the low mimic of wisdom."
"Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance."
"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."
"Follow your instincts. That's where true wisdom manifests itself."
"Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live."
"There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy."
"The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom."
"Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in the way in which the man of practical wisdom would determine it."
"Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom."
"The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common."
"It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err."
"Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom."
"Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children."
"Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself."
"The day of fortune is like a harvest day, We must be busy when the corn is ripe."
"Few of the many wise apothegms which have been uttered have prevented a single foolish action."
"You must learn day by day, year by year to broaden your horizon. The more things you love, the more you are interested in, the more you enjoy, the more you are indignant about, the more you have left when anything happens."
"Virtues are acquired through endeavor, which rests wholly upon yourself."
"The wisdom of the wise is an uncommon degree of common sense."
"Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom."
"If you believe the doctors, nothing is wholesome if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent if you believe the military, nothing is safe."
"It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own."
"Wisdom is knowing what to do next virtue is doing it."
"Wisdom begins at the end."
"Wise kings generally have wise counselors and he must be a wise man himself who is capable of distinguishing one."
"It is much more difficult to measure nonperformance than performance."
"The opportunity for brotherhood presents itself every time you meet a human being."
"Rarely promise, but, if lawful, constantly perform."
"The difference between chirping out of turn and a faux pas depends on what kind of a bar you're in."
"You can't sweep other people off their feet, if you can't be swept off your own."
"He who devotes sixteen hours a day to hard study may become at sixty as wise as he thought himself at twenty."
"It is the neglect of timely repair that makes rebuilding necessary."
"Public opinion is no more than this: what people think that other people think."
"If you want to be found stand where the seeker seeks."
"Perspective is worth 80 IQ points."
"Of prosperity mortals can never have enough."
"When an opponent comes forward, move in and greet him if he wants to pull back, send him on his way."
"He who lives by the crystal ball soon learns to eat ground glass."
"Wisdom is the quality that keeps you from getting into situations where you need it."
"Repeat anything often enough and it will start to become you."
"Wisdom outweighs any wealth."
"Tis but a part we see, and not a whole."
"Some folks are wise and some are otherwise."
"He dares to be a fool, and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom."
"Spectacular achievement is always preceded by unspectacular preparation."
"The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention."
"Memory is the mother of all wisdom."
"Self-suggestion makes you master of yourself."
"The wheel that squeaks the loudest is the one that gets the grease."
"Start wide, expand further, and never look back."
"Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it."
"Who is wise in love, love most, say least."
"You must accept responsibility for your actions, but not the credit for your achievements."
"You have to find out what's right for you, so it's trial and error. You are going to be all right if you accept realistic goals for yourself."
"Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity."
"Wisdom is a sacred communion."
"If you call failures experiments, you can put them in your resume and claim them as achievements."
"Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess, and yet all the honesty in the world ain't lawful tender for a loaf of bread."
"Wise sayings often fall on barren ground, but a kind word is never thrown away."
"Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own."
"The truest wisdom is a resolute determination."
"A prudent question is one-half of wisdom."
"No man was ever wise by chance."
"I didn't get where I am today by worryin' about how I'd feel tomorrow."
"The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom."
"People don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're happy."
"The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions."
"Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom."
"Don't taunt the alligator until after you've crossed the creek."
"To be satisfied with a little, is the greatest wisdom and he that increaseth his riches, increaseth his cares but a contented mind is a hidden treasure, and trouble findeth it not."
"It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important."
"If I don't have wisdom, I can teach you only ignorance."
"Cleverness is not wisdom."
"Never let a fool kiss you, or a kiss fool you."
"Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself."
"There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart."
"The less you talk, the more you're listened to."
"Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity."
"Winning is not everything, but wanting to win is."
"Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred to talk."
"All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man."
"Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world."
"Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents."
"Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?"
"It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things."
"The doors of wisdom are never shut."
"A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom."
"From the errors of others, a wise man corrects his own."
"Turn your wounds into wisdom."
"Be happy. It's one way of being wise."
"Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal."
"Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit."
"We should not judge people by their peak of excellence but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started."
"Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment."
"A mistake is simply another way of doing things."
"If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail."
"When written in Chinese, the word 'crisis' is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity."
"Always keep an open mind and a compassionate heart."
"A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them."
"When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust the action steps."
"Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one."
"Winners never quit and quitters never win."
"Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment."
"It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see."
"Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom."
"If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart."
"A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool."
"I'd rather regret the things I've done than regret the things I haven't done."
"Wisdom begins in wonder."
"The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing."
"If you're trying to achieve, there will be roadblocks. I've had them everybody has had them. But obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it."
"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."
