I had a bunch of people who kinda looked out for me. You know, gave me the words of wisdom.
Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is knowing not to put it in a fruit salad.
Work like you don’t need the money. Love like you’ve never been hurt. Dance like nobody’s watching.
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.
While many of us never knew Ronald Reagan personally, we felt close to him because we shared his lighthearted sense of humor, admired his uncommon virtue, and were moved by his remarkable wisdom.
Evil can be a teacher, if you look at the wisdom of its negative power.
Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.
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.
Applause is a receipt, not a bill.
Cunning… is but the low mimic of wisdom.
Sometimes one likes foolish people for their folly, better than wise people for their wisdom.
Some folks are wise and some are otherwise.
Back of every mistaken venture and defeat is the laughter of wisdom, if you listen.
Given the unprecedented ignorance of the Bible in contemporary America, it is likely that more young Americans will only know the Noah of ‘Noah.’ We can only hope that the film offers even a fraction of the wisdom of the original.
Lord, give us the wisdom to utter words that are gentle and tender, for tomorrow we may have to eat them.
If you believe the doctors, nothing is wholesome; if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent; if you believe the military, nothing is safe.
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.
Commitment is an act, not a word.
Blessed are they who seek to learn wisdom.
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.
The arts, quite simply, nourish the soul. They sustain, comfort, inspire. There is nothing like that exquisite moment when you first discover the beauty of connecting with others in celebration of larger ideals and shared 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.
To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one’s family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one’s own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.
Above all, you must fight conceit, envy, and every kind of ill-feeling in your heart.
To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.
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.
It is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.
The opportunity for brotherhood presents itself every time you meet a human being.
As we work to reweave the strands of connection, we can be supported by the wisdom and lovingkindness of others.
Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom.
Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two. A constant coming and going: wisdom lies in the momentary.
Every one in the world ought to do the things for which he is specially adapted. It is the part of wisdom to recognize what each one of us is best fitted for, and it is the part of education to perfect and utilize such predispositions. Because education can direct and aid nature but can never transform her.
In my life, I was always floating around the edge of the dark side and saying what if take it a little bit too far, and who says you have to stop there, and what’s behind the next door. Maybe you gain a wisdom from examining those things. But after a while, you get too far down in the quicksand.
We do not sit as a superlegislature to weigh the wisdom of legislation.
All human wisdom works and has worries and grief as reward.
America’s freedom of religion, and freedom from religion, offers every wisdom tradition an opportunity to address our soul-deep needs: Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, secular humanism, agnosticism and atheism among others.
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.
There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic: a man’s own observation what he finds good of and what he finds hurt of is the best physic to preserve health.
Wisdom begins in wonder.
Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.
The wisdom of man never yet contrived a system of taxation that would operate with perfect equality.
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.
Be happy. It’s one way of being wise.
People always blame the girl; she should have said no. A monosyllable, but conventional wisdom has always been that boys can’t manage it.
Let us act on what we have, since we have not what we wish.
Our bodies are at once the receiving and transmitting stations for life itself. It is the highest wisdom to recognize this fact and train our bodies to render them sensitive and responsive to nature. art and religion.
If you don’t know where you are going, any road will get you there.
The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.
The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark.
Authority without wisdom is like a heavy ax without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish.
Memory is not wisdom; idiots can by rote repeat volumes. Yet what is wisdom without memory?
The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.
Wisdom comes alone through suffering.
For the men and women of the FBI, bravery is reflected not only in the physical courage often necessary in the job. It can be seen in the courage of conviction, in the courage to act with wisdom in the face of fear, and in the courage it takes to admit mistakes and move forward.
Gardening is seen as a pastime that is almost like belonging to the Church of England – a sign of maturity and wisdom and right thinking.
Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. And don’t pray when it rains if you don’t pray when the sun shines.
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.
What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes?
The higher we are placed, the more humbly we should walk.
The left has come to regard common sense – the traditional wisdom and folkways of the community – as an obstacle to progress and enlightenment.
I’d rather regret the things I’ve done than regret the things I haven’t done.
God in His wisdom has decided that He will reward no works but His own.
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.
In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.
The extreme limit of wisdom, that’s what the public calls madness.
Never say never, but the thought of electively cutting oneself is beyond my grasp, and I also object to it politically. Denying the lines on our faces makes a comment about age and wisdom I don’t care to make.
A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune.
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.
Doubt is the vestibule through which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom.
