Pain makes man think. Thought makes man wise. Wisdom makes life endurable.
It is astonishing what force, purity, and wisdom it requires for a human being to keep clear of falsehoods.
Whatever you do in life, surround yourself with smart people who’ll argue with you.
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.
Our wisdom comes from our experience, and our experience comes from our foolishness.
Earthly wisdom is doing what comes naturally. Godly wisdom is doing what the Holy Spirit compels us to do.
A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants.
What happens is not as important as how you react to what happens.
Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
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.
Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.
A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.
Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.
Spectacular achievement is always preceded by unspectacular preparation.
Mainstream media tend to just mouth the conventional wisdom, to see everything through the filter of right and left.
The Divine of the Lord in heaven is love, for the reason that love is receptive of all things of heaven, such as peace, intelligence, wisdom and happiness.
In order to have wisdom we must have ignorance.
Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.
God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.
We learn from each other. We learn from others’ mistakes, from their experience, their wisdom. It makes it easier for us to come to better decisions in our own lives.
Both in thought and in feeling, even though time be real, to realise the unimportance of time is the gate of wisdom.
The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are.
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.
To think ill of mankind and not wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue.
The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.
Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance.
It is not who is right, but what is right, that is of importance.
It’s very hard to know what wisdom is.
More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.
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.
The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.
We all admire the wisdom of people who come to us for advice.
Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.
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.
Because of my upbringing, I believe in things like limited government, fiscal responsibility and personal accountability. I believe in the wisdom of our founders and the sanctity of our Constitution.
Buttressed by an acceptance of female wisdom in the sacred sphere from the beginnings of organised religion 12,000 years ago to late antiquity and beyond, key women used wit and the power of the word to change the world around them.
The war… was an unnecessary condition of affairs, and might have been avoided if forebearance and wisdom had been practiced on both sides.
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.
A charming woman… doesn’t follow the crowd. She is herself.
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.
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.
God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other.
Set your course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.
The tradition is a fence around the law; tithes are a fence around riches; vows are a fence around abstinence; a fence around wisdom is silence.
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.
Talent is God-given; be humble. Fame is man-given; be thankful. Conceit is self-given; be careful.
Sciences may be learned by rote, but wisdom not.
At the end of the day, if you’re not spanking your child and instilling in them the ideas of selflessness, servitude, and wisdom, you’re probably looking at a future P. Diddy in the making (maybe even a Keith Olbermann – take your pick).
Giving opens the way for receiving.
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.
Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future.
Follow your instincts. That’s where true wisdom manifests itself.
Look at anyone’s bookcase at home, no matter how modest, and you’re going to find a book that contains wisdom or ideas or a language that’s at least a thousand years old. And the idea that humans have created a mechanism to time travel, to hurl ideas into the future, it sort of bookends. Books are a time machine.
Imagination allows us to escape the predictable. It enables us to reply to the common wisdom that we cannot soar by saying, ‘Just watch!’
The wisdom of the crowds has peaked. Web 3.0 is taking what we’ve built in Web 2.0 – the wisdom of the crowds – and putting an editorial layer on it of truly talented, compensated people to make the product more trusted and refined.
The truest greatness lies in being kind, the truest wisdom in a happy mind.
Most people see what they expect to see, what they want to see, what they’ve been told to see, what conventional wisdom tells them to see – not what is right in front of them in its pristine condition.
I’ll come to you with gifts of knowledge, wisdom and truth.
If people can’t acknowledge the wisdom of indigenous cultures, then that’s their loss.
Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom.
It is the neglect of timely repair that makes rebuilding necessary.
There’s a beauty to wisdom and experience that cannot be faked. It’s impossible to be mature without having lived.
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!
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.
Sometimes you surprise yourself with what you can handle, and if you come out the other end with some wisdom, then it’s not such a bad thing.
I’m very accepting with my age. It’s like notches on your belt: experience, wisdom, and a different kind of beauty. There comes a day when you’ve become comfortable in your skin.
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
The philosophy I love is very selective. It is really just the bit that is involved in a search for wisdom, and this means a short roll call of names; Socrates, Marcus Aurelius, Seneca, Epicurus, Montaigne, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche.
Not engaging in ignorance is wisdom.
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.
Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become.
Pure, holy simplicity confounds all the wisdom of this world and the wisdom of the flesh.
There should be a point to movies. Sure, you’re giving people a diversion from the cold world for a bit, but at the same time, you pass on some facts and rules and maybe a little bit of wisdom.
