‘Star Trek’ was an attempt to say humanity will reach maturity and wisdom on the day that it begins not just to tolerate but take a special delight in differences in ideas and differences in lifeforms.
Man’s wisdom is his best friend; folly his worst enemy.
The more one pleases everybody, the less one pleases profoundly.
If you call failures experiments, you can put them in your resume and claim them as achievements.
The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.
It is like the seed put in the soil – the more one sows, the greater the harvest.
Public opinion is no more than this: what people think that other people think.
It was the Michael Jordan/Nike phenomenon that really let people see that athletes were OK, and black athletes were OK. Defying a previous wisdom – not only that black athletes wouldn’t sell in white America, but that the NBA as a predominantly black sport could not sell in white America.
In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.
The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.
It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.
We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success. We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.
Wisdom is not acquired save as the result of investigation.
The hunger for facile wisdom is the root of all false philosophy.
To keep your secret is wisdom; but to expect others to keep it is folly.
To win without risk is to triumph without glory.
Teach your children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.
Never accept ultimatums, conventional wisdom, or absolutes.
The closest thing I have to a manager is my parents, for all their words of wisdom and business experience.
It doesn’t matter how much wisdom you have. If you don’t have position, you have nothing. That’s the tragedy of India.
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.
Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.
The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance – it is the illusion of knowledge.
For the subtlest folly proceeds from the subtlest wisdom.
All things must come to the soul from its roots, from where it is planted.
How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone.
The more I work with the body, keeping my assumptions in a temporary state of reservation, the more I appreciate and sympathize with a given disease. The body no longer appears as a sick or irrational demon, but as a process with its own inner logic and wisdom.
Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.
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.
We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.
The beauty of age is we grow, we learn. We have more wisdom. And as much as the youth-glorifying Hollywood would like us to believe, it’s nothing. They’re wrong.
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.
They would need to be already wise, in order to love wisdom.
But the Wisdom of God, which is His only-begotten Son, being in all respects incapable of change or alteration, and every good quality in Him being essential, and such as cannot be changed and converted, His glory is therefore declared to be pure and sincere.
Let me warn you, if you start chasing after views, you’ll be left without bread and without views.
It isn’t what you do, but how you do it.
The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.
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.
It’s not the having, it’s the getting.
Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it.
True wisdom listens more, talks less and can get along with all types of people.
Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.
Enraging liberals is simply one of the more enjoyable side effects of my wisdom.
Never cut what you can untie.
It’s a horrible idea that God, this paragon of wisdom and knowledge, power, couldn’t think of a better way to forgive us our sins than to come down to Earth in his alter ego as his son and have himself hideously tortured and executed so that he could forgive himself.
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.
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.
Be there a will, and wisdom finds a way.
If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.
It is better to rust out than wear out.
The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one.
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.
The enemy of the conventional wisdom is not ideas but the march of events.
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.
Nobility of spirit has more to do with simplicity than ostentation, wisdom rather than wealth, commitment rather than ambition.
People don’t notice whether it’s winter or summer when they’re happy.
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.
From the errors of others, a wise man corrects his own.
Don’t taunt the alligator until after you’ve crossed the creek.
Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.
Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought – asleep. When we are weary of the living, we may repair to the dead, who have nothing of peevishness, pride, or design in their conversation.
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.
This society in which we live is radically changing. What previous generations saw as evil is now embraced as being good. It is a dangerous and slippery slope upon which we stand when we reject what Solomon called the beginning of wisdom – the fear of God.
Wise men make more opportunities than they find.
Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.
Education makes us more stupid than the brutes. A thousand voices call to us on every hand, but our ears are stopped with wisdom.
Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.
Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust.
In the beginning, Adam was instructed to earn the bread by the sweat of his brow – not Eve. Contrary to conventional wisdom, a mother’s place is in the home!
I think that music opens portals and doorways into unknown sectors that it takes courage to leap into. I always think that there’s a potential that we all have, and we can emerge, rise up to this potential, when necessary. We have to be fearless, courageous, and draw upon wisdom that we think we don’t have.
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.
Much wisdom often goes with fewest words.
Only a well-rounded intellect, a spirit nourished in the eternal sources of intelligence and culture, of justice and wisdom, is a safeguard against both indifference and skepticism.
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.
I covered my face because they had taken my wisdom teeth out.
