Eventually, we reach the point where we start to realize that we are not going to find peace, contentment, happiness, strength, fearlessness – all of the things that in our heart of hearts we wish we had – outside of us.
Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.
Wisdom sails with wind and time.
Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.
A mouse does not rely on just one hole.
So confident am I in the intentions, as well as wisdom, of the government, that I shall always be satisfied that what is not done, either cannot, or ought not to be done.
I believe we have become paralyzed, paralyzed by our desire to be loved. Now our founding fathers had the wisdom to know that social acceptance and popularity were fleeing, and that this country’s principles needed to be rooted in strengths greater than the passions and the emotions of the times.
What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?
Suffering is one of life’s great teachers.
Logic is the beginning of wisdom, not the end.
Silence and reserve will give anyone a reputation for wisdom.
With age comes common sense and wisdom.
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
Whatever one thinks of the wisdom of building a mosque near Ground Zero, this controversy now affords us an immense opportunity to examine who we are as a people. It provides us with the opportunity to get back to our foundational ideals, which have always stood as a beacon for the rest of the world.
The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
Those who improve with age embrace the power of personal growth and personal achievement and begin to replace youth with wisdom, innocence with understanding, and lack of purpose with self-actualization.
We are wiser than we know.
Being a philosopher is to think, seek wisdom, and have principles that guide and influence what you do. It’s to give meaning to things, find your way in the world, believe that in the end, in every instance, good will overcome evil, even if there’s a bit of suffering along the way.
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.
Many of us spend half of our time wishing for things we could have if we didn’t spend half our time wishing.
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.
A man may learn wisdom even from a foe.
If you were to offer a thirsty man all wisdom, you would not please him more than if you gave him a drink.
Books should to one of these fours ends conduce, for wisdom, piety, delight, or use.
If an idea is indeed sensible, it will eventually become just part of the accepted wisdom.
One’s philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes… and the choices we make are ultimately our responsibility.
We never understand how little we need in this world until we know the loss of it.
To think the world therefore a general Bedlam, or place of madmen, and oneself a physician, is the most necessary point of present wisdom: an important imagination, and the way to happiness.
I’ve led a school whose faculty and students examine and discuss and debate every aspect of our law and legal system. And what I’ve learned most is that no one has a monopoly on truth or wisdom. I’ve learned that we make progress by listening to each other, across every apparent political or ideological divide.
When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don’t adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.
If you have the guts to keep making mistakes, your wisdom and intelligence leap forward with huge momentum.
I’m not an academic philosopher, and don’t agree with the way the universities approach the subject. I’m a philosopher only in the very loose sense of someone interested in wisdom and well-being attained through reason. But I’m as interested in psychoanalysis and art as I am in philosophy.
Combine the extremes, and you will have the true center.
The wisdom of God is so great that He also knows exactly what I would think and do under every possible circumstance and situation, and he placed me in that state of life and situation best suited for my salvation.
Wisdom I know is social. She seeks her fellows. But Beauty is jealous, and illy bears the presence of a rival.
Always keep an open mind and a compassionate heart.
No one wants advice – only corroboration.
Conventional wisdom holds that setting a timetable for getting American troops out of Iraq would be a mistake.
The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work.
At sixty, I know little more about wisdom than I did at thirty, but I know a great deal more about folly.
The marvel of the Bhagavad-Gita is its truly beautiful revelation of life’s wisdom which enables philosophy to blossom into religion.
This is what I learned: that everybody is talented, original and has something important to say.
Wisdom is a kind of knowledge. It is knowledge of the nature, career, and consequences of human values.
The gateways to wisdom and learning are always open, and more and more I am choosing to walk through them. Barriers, blocks, obstacles, and problems are personal teachers giving me the opportunity to move out of the past and into the Totality of Possibilities.
Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it.
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.
My mother is a great source of advice and wisdom and consolation for me.
First appearance deceives many.
To advise is not to compel.
The more you meditate on the laws of Moses, the more striking and brighter does their wisdom appear.
Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.
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.
Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.
We are shallow because we are ‘mayabang,’ ego driven, and do not have the humility to understand that we are only human, much too human to mistake knowledge for wisdom.
Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
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.
What’s different now is that while political leaders used to give talking points to talk radio, now talk-radio hosts are giving talking points to political leaders. It’s all part of the suffocating spin cycle we’re in. In media, politics and publishing, the conventional wisdom is to play to this base.
The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages is preserved into perpetuity by a nation’s proverbs, fables, folk sayings and quotations.
Remarkable contributions are typically spawned by a passionate commitment to transcendent values such as beauty, truth, wisdom, justice, charity, fidelity, joy, courage and honor.
We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far.
Contemplation and wisdom are highest achievements and man is not totally at home with them.
Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.
Rarely promise, but, if lawful, constantly perform.
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.
The philosophy of life is this: Life is not a struggle, not a tension… Life is bliss. It is eternal wisdom, eternal existence.
Year’s end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us.
Though sages may pour out their wisdom’s treasure, there is no sterner moralist than pleasure.
Never find fault with the absent.
Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues.
In societies where mature workers are respected and where their wisdom is respected, everybody benefits. Workers are more engaged and productive. Their health is better. They live longer.
Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
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.
Peace is a fragile thing. It takes courage to secure it. It takes wisdom to maintain it.
It is wisdom in prosperity, when all is as thou wouldn’t have it, to fear and suspect the worst.
