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Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.

The hours of folly are measured by the clock; but of wisdom, no clock can measure.

Think before you speak. Read before you think.

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

Knowledge without wisdom is a load of books on the back of an ass.

Action should culminate in wisdom.

This age thinks better of a gilded fool Than of a threadbare saint in wisdom's school.

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.

Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.

True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.

Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.

It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.

Even though you know a thousand things, ask the man who knows one.

He who lives by the crystal ball soon learns to eat ground glass.

When you move amidst the world of sense, free from attachment and aversion alike, there comes the peace in which all sorrows end, and you life in the wisdom of the Self.

Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.

It is impossible to love and to be wise.

The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds.

A monarchy conducted with infinite wisdom and infinite benevolence is the most perfect of all possible governments.

Let us not take ourselves too seriously. None of us has a monopoly on wisdom.

A wise man never knows all, only fools know everything

The sage has one advantage: He is immortal. If this is not his century, many others will be.

The pine stays green in winter... wisdom in hardship.

Wise men learn more from fools than fools from the wise.

Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred to talk.

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

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.

Be happy. It's one way of being wise.

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

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.

The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.

Behold, my son, with what little wisdom the world is ruled.

Never let a fool kiss you, or a kiss fool you.

It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.

Memory is the mother of all wisdom.

Don't taunt the alligator until after you've crossed the creek.

The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation, the man of manly character and of wisdom.

Who is a wise man? He who learns of all men.

when man determined to destroy himself he picked the was of shall and finding only why smashed it into because.

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

Wisdom outweighs any wealth.

As long as there are slaughterhouses there will be battlefields.

Just as a fire is covered by smoke and a mirror is obscured by dust, just as the embryo rests deep within the womb, wisdom is hidden by selfish desire.

The height of human wisdom is to bring our tempers down to our circumstances, and to make a calm within, under the weight of the greatest storm without.

Sometimes one likes foolish people for their folly, better than wise people for their wisdom.

Wisdom is nothing more than healed pain.

Be wisely worldly, but not worldly wise.

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

Knowledge without wisdom is double folly.

Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.

Wisdom is found only in truth.

Learn from the mistakes of others. You can never live long enough to make them all yourself.

I AM IGNORANT of absolute truth. But I am humble before my ignorance and therein lies my honor and my reward.

Along with success comes a reputation for wisdom.

The wise man avoids evil by anticipating it.

It is not wisdom but Authority that makes a law.

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.

Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power. If you realize that you have enough, you are truly rich.

The truest wisdom is a resolute determination.

Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning.

Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.

We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.

So wise so young, they say, do never live long.

Very few men are wise by their own counsel, or learned by their own teaching; for he that was only taught by himself had a fool as his master.

Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live.

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.

Wise kings generally have wise counselors; and he must be a wise man himself who is capable of distinguishing one.

Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another.

Start wide, expand further, and never look back.

Every man, however wise, needs the advice of some sagacious friend in the affairs of life.

As irrigators lead water where they want, as archers make their arrows straight, as carpenters carve wood, the wise shape their minds.

Wisdom is like electricity. There is no permanently wise man, but men capable of wisdom, who, being put into certain company, or other favorable conditions, become wise for a short time, as glasses rubbed acquire electric power for a while.

True wisdom lies in gathering the precious things out of each day as it goes by.

The heart of the wise man lies quiet like limpid water.

Man is only great when he acts from passion.

Ninety percent of all human wisdom is the ability to mind your own business.

Time ripens all things; no man is born wise.

My aim, then, was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us. Fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Repeat anything often enough and it will start to become you.

From the errors of others, a wise man corrects his own.

Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom; and with all your getting get understanding.

I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

A short saying often contains much wisdom.

The stellar universe is not so difficult of comprehension as the real actions of other people.

I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.

The tigers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction.

You are wise to climb Mt. Fuji, but a fool to do it twice.

Much wisdom often goes with fewer words.

All human wisdom is summed up in two words; wait and hope.

Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life.

Wisdom is oftentimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar.

Spectacular achievement is always preceded by unspectacular preparation.

He who devotes sixteen hours a day to hard study may become at sixty as wise as he thought himself at twenty.

True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.

History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.

Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago.

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.

Wisdom makes but a slow defense against trouble, though at last a sure one.

If the highest things are unknowable, then the highest capacity or virtue of man cannot be theoretical wisdom.

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.

A man may learn wisdom even from a foe.

The wisest man is he who does not fancy that he is so at all.

There is a trade off as you grow older you gain wisdom but you lose spontaneity.

For all my education, accomplishments, and so called 'wisdom'... I can't fathom my own heart.

Wisdom in a poor man is a diamond set in lead.

Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more.

Wisdom is the knowledge of good and evil, not the strength to choose between the two.

The wisest have the most authority.

The first point of wisdom is to discern that which is false; the second, to know that which is true.

I'm not wise, but the beginning of wisdom is there; it's like relaxing into and an acceptance of things.

Deep doubts, deep wisdom; small doubts, little wisdom.

No man is the wiser for his learning; it may administer matter to work in, or objects to work upon; but wit and wisdom are born with a man.

The end result of wisdom is... good deeds.

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.

There is a wisdom of the head, and... there is a wisdom of the heart.

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.

Wisdom is perishable. Unlike information or knowledge, it cannot be stored in a computer or recorded in a book. It expires with each passing generation.

The wise have always said the same things, and fools, who are the majority have always done just the opposite.

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.

Full of wisdom are the ordinations of fate.

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.

Goodness without wisdom always accomplishes evil.

It is not wise to be wiser than necessary.

Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents.

The testimony of the Lord is sure making wise the simple. Psalms 19:7

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.

Any fool can carry on, but only the wise man knows how to shorten sail.

Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.

You can buy education, but wisdom is a gift from God.

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers, and he bears a laden breast,Full of sad experience, moving toward the stillness of his rest.

Wise sayings often fall on barren ground, but a kind word is never thrown away.

Conventional wisdom notwithstanding, there is no reason either in football or in poetry why the two should not meet in a man's life if he has the weight and cares about the words.

Some wisdom you must learn from one who's wise.

Immortal gods! How much does one man excel another! What a difference there is between a wise man and a fool.

Knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows.

A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can.

The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.

He who exercises wisdom exercises the knowledge which is about God.

The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.

The growth of wisdom may be gauged accurately by the decline of ill temper.

A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.

The man who asks a question is a fool for a minute, the man who does not ask is a fool for life.

Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom.

It is almost everywhere the case that soon after it is begotten the greater part of human wisdom is laid to rest in repositories.

Knowledge is the consequence of time, and multitude of days are fittest to teach wisdom.

To think ill of mankind and not wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue.

Some folks are wise and some are otherwise.

Discipline is wisdom and vice versa.

Wisdom prepares for the worst, but folly leaves the worst for the day when it comes.

Follow your instincts. That's where true wisdom manifests itself.

Some folks are wise and some otherwise.

The marvel of the Bhagavad Gita is its truly beautiful revelation of life's wisdom which enables philosophy to blossom into religion.

Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.

Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.

The price of wisdom is eternal thought.

Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious.

It is the neglect of timely repair that makes rebuilding necessary.

The war... was an unnecessary condition of affairs, and might have been avoided if forebearance and wisdom had been practiced on both sides.

Start with God the first step in learning is bowing down to God; only fools thumb their noses at such wisdom and learning.

Of prosperity mortals can never have enough.

The wise person has long ears and a short tongue.

A wise man will see to it that his acts always seem voluntary and not done by compulsion, however much he may be compelled by necessity.

Earthly wisdom is doing what comes naturally. Godly wisdom is doing what the Holy Spirit compels us to do.

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.

Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.

Its a dangerous business Frodo going out your door. You step onto the road and if you dont keep your feet theres no knowing where you might be swept off to.

What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?

God in His wisdom has decided that He will reward no works but His own.

We all admire the wisdom of people who come to us for advice.

Who is wise in love, love most, say least.

Saudi Arabia is a puritanical state that claims a monopoly of wisdom and virtue.

Knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows.

Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.

It is more easy to be wise for others than for ourselves.

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.

Peace is a fragile thing. It takes courage to secure it. It takes wisdom to maintain it.

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.

Vanity can easily overtake wisdom. It usually overtakes common sense.

Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own.

The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.

The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.

Committing a great truth to memory is admirable; committing it to life is wisdom.

A great memory is never made synonymous with wisdom, any more than a dictionary would be called a treatise.

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.

Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.

Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non essentials.

For the subtlest folly proceeds from the subtlest wisdom.

My mother is a great source of advice and wisdom and consolation for me.

Wisdom is not acquired save as the result of investigation.

Science is always discovering odd scraps of magical wisdom and making a tremendous fuss about its cleverness.

The future has already arrived. It's just not evenly distributed yet.

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.

No man is wise enough by himself.

The temporary good is enemy to the permanent best.

Sciences may be learned by rote, but wisdom not.

I look forward to a great future for America a future in which our country will match its military strength with our moral restraint, its wealth with our wisdom, its power with our purpose.

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

Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?

The words of wise men are heard in quiet more than the cry of him that ruleth among fools. Wisdom is better than weapons of war; but one sinner destroyeth much good.

Unhappy is that Grandeur which makes us too great to be good; and that Wit which sets us at a distance from true Wisdom.

There are three faithful friends an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.

The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.

Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.

Wisdom, prudence, forethought, these are essential. But not second to these that noble courage which adventures the right, and leaves the consequences to God.

Wisdom is oftimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar.

Theology in general seems to me a substitution of human ingenuity for divine wisdom.

To keep your secret is wisdom; but to expect others to keep it is folly.

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.

What makes Superman a hero is not that he has power, but that he has the wisdom and the maturity to use the power wisely. From an acting point of view, that's how I approached the part.

Nature will not forgive those who fail to fulfill the law of their being. The law of human beings is wisdom and goodness, not unlimited acquisition.

Everyone is wise until he speaks.

Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.

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.

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.

The wise man will want to be ever with him who is better than himself.

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.

Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.

It is not from reason that justice springs, but goodness is born of wisdom.

You must accept responsibility for your actions, but not the credit for your achievements.

It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.

We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already.

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.

To light one candle to God and another to the Devil is the principle of wisdom.

More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.

I didn't get where I am today by worryin' about how I'd feel tomorrow.

Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself.

Wisdom is learning what to overlook.

A mistake is simply another way of doing things.

A man begins cutting his wisdom teeth the first time he bites off more than he can chew.

A wise man is he who does not grieve for the thing which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.

A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult.

The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.

People don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're happy.

He alone is wise who can accommodate himself to all contingencies of life; but the fool contends, and struggling, like a swimmer, against the stream.

If you wish to know the road up the mountain, ask the man who goes back and forth on it.

Wisdom and understanding can only become the possession of individual men by travelling the old road of observation, attention, perseverance, and industry.

You want people walking away from the conversation with some kernel of wisdom or some kind of impact.

We can't command our love, but we can our actions.

The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance it is the illusion of knowledge.

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.

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.

The final wisdom of life requires not the annulment of incongruity but the achievement of serenity within and above it.

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.

The fool doth think he is wise but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.

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.

My government, you can be assured, will be less focused on personalities. It is about treating people with respect. I think complaining about the community not being able to see the wisdom of our ideas is the wrong approach.

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.

Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.

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

The foolish sayings of a rich man pass for wise ones.

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.

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.

Virtues are acquired through endeavor, which rests wholly upon yourself.

By others faults the wise correct their own.

Some men are wise, and some are otherwise.

What is the price of experience? Do men buy it for a song? Or wisdom for a dance in the street? No, it is bought with the price of all the man hath, his house, his wife, his children.

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.

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.

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

To build a great company, which is a CEO's job, sometimes you have to stand up against conventional wisdom.

You can't sweep other people off their feet, if you can't be swept off your own.

Sharing great wisdom in the company of fools may lead them to take you as one of their own.

Books are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom.

Wisdom comes alone through suffering.

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.

The wisdom of the wise is an uncommon degree of common sense.

Great men are the commissioned guides of mankind, who rule their fellows because they are wiser.

Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.

Pain is the doorway to wisdom and to truth.

Raphael paints wisdom; Handel sings it, Phidias carves it, Shakespeare writes it, Wren builds it, Columbus sails it, Luther preaches it, Washington arms it, Watt mechanizes it.

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.

The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.

We are to seek wisdom and understanding only in the length of days.

Wisdom thoroughly learned, will never be forgotten.

Wisdom overcomes fortune.

This is perhaps the most profound meaning of the book of Job, the best example of wisdom.

One part of wisdom is knowing what you don't need anymore and letting it go.

The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions.

The wise man says it cannot be done, but the fool goes and does it.

Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom.

For wisdom is a defense, and money is a defense: but the excellency of knowledge is, that wisdom giveth life to them that have it.

Wisdom is a kind of knowledge. It is knowledge of the nature, career, and consequences of human values.

If wisdom were on sale in the open market, the stupid would not even ask the price.

Clearly older women and especially older women who have led an active life or elder women who successfully maneuver through their own family life have so much to teach us about sharing, patience, and wisdom.

I have known it for a long time but I have only just experienced it. Now I know it not only with my intellect, but with my eyes, with my heart, with my stomach.

Patience is the companion of wisdom.

It is the folly of the world, constantly, which confounds its wisdom.

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.

It is wisdom in prosperity, when all is as thou wouldn't have it, to fear and suspect the worst.

Wisdom makes a slow defense against trouble, though a sure one in the end.

In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.

The best mind might be the wisest mind if it were a mind alone that produces wisdom.

He dares to be a fool, and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.

Nine tenths of wisdom consists in being wise in time.

We all have within us a deep wisdom, but sometimes we don't know we have it.

I'll come to you with gifts of knowledge, wisdom and truth.

Cunning... is but the low mimic of wisdom.

Rightly defined philosophy is simply the love of wisdom.

One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know.

As you walk down the fairway of life you must smell the roses, for you only get to play one round.

However glorious an action in itself, it ought not to pass for great if it be not the effect of wisdom and intention.

Wisdom is knowing when you can't be wise.

Caution is the eldest child of wisdom.

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 doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.

The truest greatness lies in being kind, the truest wisdom in a happy mind.

The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work.

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.

Lessons of wisdom have the most power over us when they capture the heart through the groundwork of a story, which engages the passions.

All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man.

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.

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.

He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.

After the knowledge of, and obedience to, the will of God, the next aim must be to know something of His attributes of wisdom, power, and goodness as evidenced by His handiwork.

If I don't have wisdom, I can teach you only ignorance.

Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance.

The perceived wisdom is that people do not go in large numbers to black and white movies anymore which is a great shame, but I'd love to make a black and white movie one day.

Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.

There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.

Im not young enough to know everything.

Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.

The constancy of sages is nothing but the art of locking up their agitation in their hearts.

Knowledge can be communicated, but wisdom cannot. A man can find it, he can live it, he can be filled and sustained by it, but he cannot utter or teach it.

Wisdom we know is the knowledge of good and evil, not the strength to choose between the two.

Preconceived notions are the locks on the door to wisdom.

Wisdom is the quality that keeps you from getting into situations where you need it.

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.

The only one who is wiser than anyone is everyone.

Always keep your mind as bright and clear as the vast sky, the great ocean, and the highest peak, empty of all thoughts. Always keep your body filled with light and heat. Fill yourself with the power of wisdom and enlightenment.

I prefer the folly of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.

A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool.

Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain.

In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause.

Even wisdom has to yield to self interest.

The truth is not for all men, but only for those who seek it.

I'm married. My wife, Stella a beautiful woman. She's brought a lot of peace to my life, a lot of wisdom.

The opportunity for brotherhood presents itself every time you meet a human being.

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.

I am thinking of taking a fifth wife. Why not? Solomon had a thousand wives and he is a synonym for wisdom.

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.

Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech.

Wisdom hath her excesses, and no less need of moderation than folly.

Mixing one's wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.

The less you talk, the more you're listened to.

How prone to doubt, how cautious are the wise!

I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.

What wisdom can you find greater than kindness.

Turn your wounds into wisdom.

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.

The wise know the value of riches, but the rich do not know the pleasures of wisdom.

Moderation is the inseparable companion of wisdom, but with it genius has not even a nodding acquaintance.

Let us be about setting high standards for life, love, creativity, and wisdom. If our expectations in these areas are low, we are not likely to experience wellness. Setting high standards makes every day and every decade worth looking forward to.

A wise woman puts a grain of sugar into everything she says to a man, and takes a grain of salt with everything he says to her.

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.

Keep the gold and keep the silver, but give us wisdom.

Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that deceives them.

The greatest event for the world is the arrival of a new and wise person.

A life of frustration is inevitable for any coach whose main enjoyment is winning.

He swallowed a lot of wisdom, but all of it seems to have gone down the wrong way.

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.

Doubt is the vestibule through which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom.

There is as much wisdom in listening as there is in speaking and that goes for all relationships, not just romantic ones.

Nobility of spirit has more to do with simplicity than ostentation, wisdom rather than wealth, commitment rather than ambition.

Self suggestion makes you master of yourself.

We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom. The world henceforth will be run by synthesizers, people able to put together the right information at the right time, think critically about it, and make important choices wisely.

I've always shied away from conventional wisdom, though I know the power of it.

Wisdom and goodness are twin born, one heart must hold both sisters, never seen apart.

Always keep an open mind and a compassionate heart.

Wisdom consists in rising superior both to madness and to common sense, and is lending oneself to the universal illusion without becoming its dupe.

Wisdom, itself, is often an abstraction associated not with fact or reality, but with the man who asserts it and the manner of its assertion.

Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.

He is no wise man who will quit a certainty for an uncertainty.

Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.

The 'wisdom of the crowds' is the most ridiculous statement I've heard in my life. Crowds are dumb.

Silence is true wisdom's best reply.

Man is wise and constantly in quest of more wisdom; but the ultimate wisdom, which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed. There it lies, the simplest fact of the universe and at the same time the one which calls forth faith rather than reason.

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.

Much wisdom often goes with fewest words.

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.

Cowards die many times before their actual deaths

Nothing is more beautiful than a woman who nurtures the idea of serving humanity, and why not. The landscapes that remain benign, away from the man's vicious interference, are still the most beautiful

Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.

The seven wise men of Greece, so famous for their wisdom all the world over, acquired all that fame, each of them, by a single sentence consisting of two or three words.

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.

The best way to obtain truth and wisdom is not to ask from books, but to go to God in prayer, and obtain divine teaching.

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.

If you believe the doctors, nothing is wholesome; if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent; if you believe the military, nothing is safe.

Kings may be judges of the earth, but wise men are the judges of kings.

The wheel that squeaks the loudest is the one that gets the grease.

In the frank expression of conflicting opinions lies the greatest promise of wisdom in governmental action.

Without wisdom, knowledge is more stupid than ignorance.

It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own.

In much wisdom is much grief; and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.

Wise men are not always silent, but they know when to be.

In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.

Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.

In garden arrangement, as in all other kinds of decorative work, one has not only to acquire a knowledge of what to do, but also to gain some wisdom in perceiving what it is well to let alone.

Think before you speak. Read before you think.

Logic is the beginning of wisdom, not the end.

There is a courageous wisdom; there is also a false reptile prudence, the result, not of caution, but of fear.

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.

A man never reaches that dizzy height of wisdom that he can no longer be led by the nose.

Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it.

Even when you have doubts, take that step. Take chances. Mistakes are never a failure they can be turned into wisdom.

Learn politeness from the impolite.

Understanding the limitations of human beings as well as understanding your own is the beginning of true wisdom.

The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.

Back of every mistaken venture and defeat is the laughter of wisdom, if you listen.

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.

Timing, degree and conviction are the three wise men in this life.

The Founding Fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents. So they provided jails called schools, equipped with tortures called an education.

Wisdom comes by disillusionment.

I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge.

Humility is the only true wisdom by which we prepare our minds for all the possible changes of life.

The two powers which in my opinion constitute a wise man are those of bearing and forbearing.

Where wisdom is called for, force is of little use.

The ultimate wisdom which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed. There it lies, the simplest fact of the universe and at the same time the one which calls faith rather than reason.

The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one.

The study of history is the beginning of political wisdom.

Precepts or maxims are of great weight; and a few useful ones at hand do more toward a happy life than whole volumes that we know not where to find.

The most important lesson of New Labour is this: Every time we made progress we did it by challenging the conventional wisdom.

Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.

He was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self preservation that passes for wisdom among the rich.

The key to wisdom is this constant and frequent questioning, for by doubting we are led to question and by questioning we arrive at the truth.

Books give not wisdom where none was before. But where some is, there reading makes it more.

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.

The clouds may drop down titles and estates, and wealth may seek us, but wisdom must be sought.

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.

The wisdom of the wise is an uncommon degree of common sense.

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.

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.

The weak have remedies, the wise have joys; superior wisdom is superior bliss.

Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seemeth to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise. For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. Bible Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment.

The more tranquil a man becomes, the greater is his success, his influence, his power for good. Calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom.

Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.

Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.

If an idea is indeed sensible, it will eventually become just part of the accepted wisdom.

He whose wisdom cannot help him, gets no good from being wise.

Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe.

I'd rather regret the things I've done than regret the things I haven't done.

Pain makes man think. Thought makes man wise. Wisdom makes life endurable.

The wise man must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the future.

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.

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.

It's better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your life.

Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency.

Winning is not everything, but wanting to win is.

It's very hard to know what wisdom is.

Not engaging in ignorance is wisdom.

It is sometimes wise to forget who we are.

To know that which before us lies in daily life is the prime wisdom.

It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.

Every speaker has a mouth; An arrangement rather neat. Sometimes it's filled with wisdom. Sometimes it's filled with feet.

Wise people are foolish if they cannot adapt to foolish people.

What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes?

Follow then the shining ones, the wise, the awakened, the loving, for they know how to work and forbear.

The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.

Only the wise possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.

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.

Purity engenders Wisdom, Passion avarice, and Ignorance folly, infatuation and darkness.

Wisdom is your perspective on life, your sense of balance, your understanding of how the various parts and principles apply and relate to each other. It embraces judgment, discernment, comprehension. It is a gestalt or oneness, and integrated wholeness.

In order to have wisdom we must have ignorance.

After all my possessions had been burned, God gave me the wisdom to return to Jerusalem.

A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.

Wisdom sails with wind and time.

There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain.

The ear that heareth the reproof of life abideth among the wise.

Don't follow any advice, no matter how good, until you feel as deeply in your spirit as you think in your mind that the counsel is wise.

God the Father, the supreme Architect, had already built this cosmic home we behold, the most sacred temple of His godhead, by the laws of His mysterious wisdom.

We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.

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.

Second, this epic tale allows the audience to actually listen to the Native Americans and receive their wisdom. Spielberg conveys the respect for Native Americans that is normally lacking in Western films.

Pure wisdom is the 'fruit of life'; banal platitudes are the 'bane of existence'.

The chief aim of wisdom is to enable one to bear with the stupidity of the ignorant.

Everything I know I learned after I was thirty.

It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.

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.

These are weighty secrets, and we must whisper them.

Of all our possessions, wisdom alone is imortal.

Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.

Wisdom is knowledge which has become a part of one's being.

Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.

I am so wise I had my mouth sewn shut.

A wholesome oblivion of one's neighbours is the beginning of wisdom.

Education makes us more stupid than the brutes. A thousand voices call to us on every hand, but our ears are stopped with wisdom.

The strongest man survives himself.

Wisdom begins at the end.

When you assemble a number of men to have the advantage of their joint wisdom, you inevitably assemble with those men all their prejudices, their passions, their errors of opinion, their local interests and their selfish views.

Who is the wisest man? He who neither knows or wishes for anything else than what happens.

Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.

All human wisdom works and has worries and grief as reward.

To know one's self is wisdom, but not to know one's neighbors is genius.

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.

Beauty is the wisdom of women. Wisdom is the beauty of men.

Remembering is painful, it's difficult, but it can be inspiring and it can give wisdom.

Wise men make more opportunities than they find.

It is a maxim received in life that, in general, we can determine more wisely for others than for ourselves. The reason of it is so clear in argument that it hardly wants the confirming of experience.

Nine tenths of wisdom consists in being wise in time.

The hunger for facile wisdom is the root of all false philosophy.

What a wonderful world this would be if there were as many wise people as there are clever people.

The seat of knowledge is in the head; of wisdom, in the heart. We are sure to judge wrong, if we do not feel right.

Doubt the conventional wisdom unless you can verify it with reason and experiment.

Wise people may say what they will, but one passion is never cured by another.

In complete darkness, it is only knowledge and wisdom that separates us.

When written in Chinese, the word crisis is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity.

Such is the nature of men that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty, or more eloquent, or more learned, yet they will hardly believe there may be many so wise as themselves.

The art of being wise is knowing what to overlook.

Wisdom is to the mind what health is to the body.

Many spiritual teachers in Buddhism, in Islam have talked about first hand experience of the world as an important part of the path to wisdom, to enlightenment.

The difference between chirping out of turn and a faux pas depends on what kind of a bar you're in.

The greatest wisdom is to realize one's lack of it.

Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

Enraging liberals is simply one of the more enjoyable side effects of my wisdom.

They whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed.

A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation.

There is this difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man, really is so; but he that thinks himself the wisest, is generally the greatest fool.

The growth of wisdom may be gauged exactly by the diminution of ill temper.

Wisdom consists not so much in knowing what to do in the ultimate as knowing what to do next.

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.

The stupidity of people comes from having an answer for everything. The wisdom of the novel comes from having a question for everything.

I sought my father in the world of the black musician, because it contained wisdom, experience, sadness and loneliness. I was not ever interested in the music of boys. From my youngest years, I was interested in the music of men.

It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important.

No matter how long he lives, no man ever becomes as wise as the average woman of forty eight.

Few of the many wise apothegms which have been uttered have prevented a single foolish action.

Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.

Both in thought and in feeling, even though time be real, to realise the unimportance of time is the gate of wisdom.

You are a woman: you must never speak what you think; your words must contradict your thoughts, but your actions may contradict your words.

You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.

Nothing doth more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise.

The left has come to regard common sense the traditional wisdom and folkways of the community as an obstacle to progress and enlightenment.

Be wisely worldly, but not worldly wise.

Has fortune dealt you some bad cards. Then let wisdom make you a good gamester.

Through wisdom is a house built; and by understanding it is established; and by knowledge shall every room be filled with precious and pleasant riches.

Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.

He who acts, spoils; he who grasps, lets slip.

The thing that we possess, that machines don't, is the ability to exhibit wisdom.

Truth from his lips prevailed with double sway, and fools, who came to scoff, remained to pray.

It is not that Im so smart. But I stay with the questions much longer.

A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.

If only we were wiser or better people, perhaps the gods would explain to us the mad, unbearable things they do.

The enemy of the conventional wisdom is not ideas but the march of events.

There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.

Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.

The only man I know who behaves sensibly is my tailor; he takes my measurements anew each time he sees me. The rest go on with their old measurements and expect me to fit them.

The wise man sees in the misfortune of others what he should avoid.

Life is a travelling to the edge of knowledge, then a leap taken.

The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.

Wise are they who have learned these truths: Trouble is temporary. Time is a tonic. Tribulation is a test tube.

A poem begins in delight and ends in 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.

He is a hard man who is only just, and a sad one who is only wise.

Wisdom is humble that he knows no more.

The all seeing eye of God beheld our deplorable state; infinite pity touched the heart of the Father of mercies; and infinite wisdom laid the plan of our recovery.

No man was ever wise by chance.

Come, come, leave business to idlers, and wisdom to fools: they have need of 'em: wit be my faculty, and pleasure my occupation, and let father Time shake his glass.

We have heeded no wisdom offering guidance.

Economists often like startling theorems, results which seem to run counter to conventional wisdom.

It is a great misfortune not to possess sufficient wit to speak well, nor sufficient judgment to keep silent.

Wisdom alone is the science of others sciences.

As you walk in God's divine wisdom, you will surely begin to see a greater measure of victory and good success in your life.

Putting is like wisdom partly a natural gift and partly the accumulation of experience.

Rarely promise, but, if lawful, constantly perform.

Wisely and slow; they stumble that run fast.

Contemplation and wisdom are highest achievements and man is not totally at home with them.

Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.

Our wisdom comes from our experience, and our experience comes from our foolishness.

Through mutual understanding, sincerity and goodwill, and with great wisdom and broad views, the leaders on both sides should jointly initiate new opportunities for peace, stability, cooperation and mutual benefit.

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.

Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too self ful to seek other than itself.

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.

Those unacquainted with the world take pleasure in intimacy with great men; those who are wiser fear the consequences.

The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.

Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.

Books should to one of these fours ends conduce, for wisdom, piety, delight, or use.

The simple things are also the most extraordinary things and only the wise can see them.

The constitutions of Maryland and New York are founded in higher wisdom.

My desire is for wisdom, not for the exercise of the will. The will is the strong blind man who carries on his shoulders the lame man who can see.

True wisdom listens more, talks less and can get along with all types of people.

Irony is the gaiety of reflection and the joy of wisdom.

Wisdom alone is true ambition's aim, wisdom is the source of virtue and of fame; obtained with labour, for mankind employed, and then, when most you share it, best enjoyed.

It is much more difficult to measure nonperformance than performance.

The greater the step forward in knowledge, the greater is the one taken backward in search of wisdom.

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.

There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart.

Be there a will, and wisdom finds a way.

To keep your secret is wisdom; to expect others to keep it is folly.

Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom.

It is better to speak wisdom foolishly, like the saints, rather than to speak folly wisely, like the dons.

To profit from good advice requires more wisdom than to give it.

There is no wisdom save in truth. Truth is everlasting, but our ideas about truth are changeable. Only a little of the first fruits of wisdom, only a few fragments of the boundless heights, breadths and depths of truth, have I been able to gather.

The day of fortune is like a harvest day, We must be busy when the corn is ripe.

More wisdom is latent in things as they are than in all the words men use.

Blessed is the man who finds wisdom, the man who gains understanding, for she is more profitable than silver and yields better returns than gold. She is more precious than rubies; nothing you desire can compare with her. Bible Wise men still seek Him today.

If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise.

It is costly wisdom that is bought by experience.

The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.

It is better to risk starving to death then surrender. If you give up on your dreams, what's left?

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.

Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues.

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.

The man who questions opinions is wise. The man who quarrels with facts is a fool.

Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.

The wisest have the most authority.

And Wisdom be the Daughter of Experience

Mainstream media tend to just mouth the conventional wisdom, to see everything through the filter of right and left.

The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.

That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in another.

Wisdom outweighs any wealth.

Strength and wisdom are not opposing values.

Wisdom is that apprehension of heavenly things to which the spirit rises through love.

Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences.

The extreme limit of wisdom, that's what the public calls madness.

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.

A prudent question is one half of wisdom.

Many people might have attained wisdom had they not assumed they already had it.

Wisdom has never made a bigot, but learning has.

We lead first by example! Everything we say or do sends a message, sets a tone, or teaches people what to do or what not to do.

The man of wisdom is never of two minds; the man of benevolence never worries; the man of courage is never afraid.

If a wise man behaves prudently, how can he be overcome by his enemies? Even a single man, by right action, can overcome a host of foes.

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.

Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late.

It is astonishing what force, purity, and wisdom it requires for a human being to keep clear of falsehoods.

If you call failures experiments, you can put them in your resume and claim them as achievements.

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

I do not want the peace that passeth understanding. I want the understanding which bringeth peace.

It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.

Every indication of wisdom, taken from the effect, is equally an indication of power to execute what wisdom planned.

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.

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.

We are to get wisdom and understanding, yet we are not to lean on it apart from the Lord.

Much of the wisdom of one age, is the folly of the next.

It takes a great man to give sound advice tactfully, but a greater to accept it graciously.

Hold fast to dreams. For if dreams die. Life is a brokenwinged bird. That cannot fly.

Wisdom is better than weapons of war. Bible 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.

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.

Never accept ultimatums, conventional wisdom, or absolutes.

When I can look life in the eyes, grown calm and very coldly wise, life will have given me the truth, and taken in exchange my youth.

Novels are the Socratic dialogues of our time. Practical wisdom fled from school wisdom into this liberal form.

We cannot advance without new experiments in living, but no wise man tries every day what he has proved wrong the day before.

A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers.

Sometimes, simply by sitting, the soul collects wisdom

Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.

Guts are important. Your guts are what digest things. But it is your brains that tell you which things to swallow and which not to swallow.

The live in wisdom who see themselves in all and all in them, who have renounced every selfish desire and sense craving tormenting the heart.

A prudent question is one half of wisdom.

There comes a point when you either embrace who and what you are or condemn yourself to be miserable all your days. Other people will try to make you miserable dont help them by doing the job yourself.

Learn wisdom from the ways of a seedling. A seedling which is never hardened off through stressful situations will never become a strong productive plant.

Sometimes, if you stand on the bottom rail of a bridge and lean over to watch the river slipping slowly away beneath you, you will suddenly know everything there is to be known.

Public opinion is no more than this: what people think that other people think.

Wisdom is keeping a sense of fallibility of all our views and opinions.

Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men.

Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom.

Because in the school of the Spirit man learns wisdom through humility, knowledge by forgetting, how to speak by silence, how to live by dying.

Central banks don't have divine wisdom. They try to do the best analysis they can and must be prepared to stand or fall by the quality of that analysis.

We live in a culture that doesn't acknowledge or validate human intuition and doesn't encourage us to rely on our intuitive wisdom.

You can practice to attain knowledge, but you can't practice to attain wisdom.

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.

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.

Pessimism is only the name that men of weak nerves give to wisdom.

The wisdom of a learned man comet by opportunity of leisure: and he that hath little business shall become wise. Ecclesiasticus 38:25

People always blame the girl; she should have said no. A monosyllable, but conventional wisdom has always been that boys can't manage it.

The perfection of wisdom, and the end of true philosophy is to proportion our wants to our possessions, our ambitions to our capacities, we will then be a happy and a virtuous people.

To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

He is a hard man who is only just, and a sad one who is only wise.

If youre reading this...Congratulations youre alive. If thats not something to smile about then I dont know what is.

A wise person decides slowly but abides by these decisions.

In life, all good things come hard, but wisdom is the hardest to come by.

It is good even for old men to learn wisdom.

War involves in its progress such a train of unforeseen circumstances that no human wisdom can calculate the end; it has but one thing certain, and that is to increase taxes.

There is a time when a man distinguishes the idea of felicity from the idea of wealth; it is the beginning of wisdom.

In complete darkness we are all the same, it is only our knowledge and wisdom that separates us, don't let your eyes deceive you.

We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.

Im not waiting until my hair turns white to become patient and wise. Nope Im dying my hair tonight.

Wise care keeps what it has gained.

The secret of life though is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.

Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself; the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache.

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.

If you were to offer a thirsty man all wisdom, you would not please him more than if you gave him a drink.

He that walketh with wise men shall be wise.

Wisdom is a sacred communion.

Though wisdom cannot be gotten for gold, still less can be gotten without it.

The teachings of elegant sayings should be collected when one can. For the supreme gift of words of wisdom, any price will be paid.

As it is the characteristic of great wits to say much in few words, so small wits seem to have the gift of speaking much and saying nothing.

Maxims are to the intellect what laws are to actions: They do not enlighten, but guide and direct, and though themselves blind, are protecting.

To know when to be generous and when firm—that is wisdom.

When you know better you do better.

As we grow in wisdom, we pardon more freely.

Conventional wisdom holds that setting a timetable for getting American troops out of Iraq would be a mistake.

The wisdom of others remains dull till it is writ over with our own blood. We are essentially apart from the world; it bursts into our consciousness only when it sinks its teeth and nails into us.

A man is wise with the wisdom of his time only, and ignorant with its ignorance.

A wise man writes down what he thinks, a stupid man forgets what he thinks, a complete idiot punishes himself for what he thinks.

Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun.

Lord, give us the wisdom to utter words that are gentle and tender, for tomorrow we may have to eat them.

The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.

If you want to be found stand where the seeker seeks.

I have sympathy for young people, for their growing pains, but I balk when these growing pains are pushed into the foreground, when you make these young people the only vehicles of life's wisdom.

When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.

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.

They would need to be already wise, in order to love wisdom.

By the time your life is finished, you will have learned just enough to begin it well.

Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?

The only difference between a rich person and poor person is how they use their time.

Wisdom is one thing, to know how to make true judgment, how all things are steered through all things.

The days that are still to come are the wisest witnesses.

Wisdom finds its literary expression in wisdom literature.

A man of strength and wisdom, John Paul became an inspiration to generations of both Catholics and non Catholics throughout the world by encouraging freedom, promoting peace and respecting all faiths.

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.

The experience gathered from books, though often valuable, is but the nature of learning; whereas the experience gained from actual life is one of the nature of wisdom.

Nine enths of wisdom is being wise in time.

Whenever you argue with another wiser than yourself in order that others may admire your wisdom, they will discover your ignorance.

And I pray thee, loving Jesus, that as Thou hast graciously given me to drink in with delight the words of Thy knowledge, so Thou wouldst mercifully grant me to attain one day to Thee, the fountain of all wisdom and to appear forever before Thy face.

True wisdom consists in not departing from nature and in molding our conduct according to her laws and model.

If I am fool, it is, at least, a doubting one; and I envy no one the certainty of his self approved wisdom.

Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.

Turn those wounds into wisdom.

Man's wisdom is his best friend; folly his worst enemy.

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 and knowledge shall be the stability of your times.

We do not sit as a superlegislature to weigh the wisdom of legislation.

We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it.

Start wide, expand further, and never look back.

The wisdom acquired with the passage of time is a useless gift unless you share it.

Of all the words of mice and men, the saddest are, “It might have been.

Life is the only real counselor; wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue.

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.

So teach us to number our days that we may apply our hearts to wisdom.

Our experience is composed rather of illusions that of wisdom acquired.

Dont Gain The World amp Lose Your Soul Wisdom Is Better Than Silver Or Gold.

Age does not bring you wisdom, age brings you wrinkles.

In the long run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom and unwisdom; we have to say, Like People like Government.

Men who know themselves are no longer fools. They stand on the threshold of the door of Wisdom.

At sixty, I know little more about wisdom than I did at thirty, but I know a great deal more about folly.

I covered my face because they had taken my wisdom teeth out.

This fear of the Lord is indeed the beginning of wisdom. This consciousness of sin is the straight pathway to heaven.

Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.

The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out.

Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever; no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself; no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself.

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!

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.

To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

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.

To comprehend the Wisdom of this Injunction the better, and explain the Duty before us, it should be considered, that Government is the only Means by which human Happiness can be attained.

If wisdom were offered me with this restriction, that I should keep it close and not communicate it, I would refuse the gift.

Words of wisdom are spoken by children at least as often as scientists.

The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living, which are to be desired when dying.

Grief must come, but it’s still grief and there’s no part of the body that can hurt more than the heart.

In my definition of consciousness, consciousness is the same thing as life. What wisdom traditions also call spirit.

There is no knowledge, no light, no wisdom that you are in possession of, but what you have received it from some source.

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.

This, and this alone, is Christianity, a universal holiness in every part of life, a heavenly wisdom in all our actions, not conforming to the spirit and temper of the world but turning all worldly enjoyments into means of piety and devotion to God.

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.

What I lack in energy, I have in wisdom.

It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.

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.

Wisdom is nothing but a preparation of the soul, a capacity, a secret art of thinking, feeling and breathing thoughts of unity at every moment of life.

Wisdom is a variable possession. Every man is wise when pursued by a mad dog, fewer when pursued by a mad woman; only the wisest survive when attacked by a mad notion.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

I love being. There's so much wisdom in it. You wake up in the morning and you think, Hey, isn't it great just being?

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 believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people call God is something in all of us. I believe that what Jesus and Mohammed and Buddha and all the rest said was right. It’s just that the translations have gone wrong.

A river cuts through rock, not because of its power, but because of its persistence.

There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn’t true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.

“An ounce of behavior is worth a pound of words.”

“That which hinders your task is your task.”