Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.
Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than 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.
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.
I'm someone who's done the opposite of whatever the received wisdom is, to keep your career going into your 50s.
I think there is a complicated side effect to overcoming evil in that we are forever changed by it. I think after we ingest some of the cruelty of the world, it takes years off of our lives, but it also gives us wisdom and a little grace, hopefully a sense of compassion.
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.
Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future.
Pain is the doorway to wisdom and to truth.
Vanity can easily overtake wisdom. It usually overtakes common sense.
All human wisdom works and has worries and grief as reward.
If the highest things are unknowable, then the highest capacity or virtue of man cannot be theoretical wisdom.
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.
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.
I quite like the idea - just as an abstract idea - of 12 people's collective life experience and wisdom being this formidable thing. People say juries can be led - I think 12 people from different backgrounds, different races, different genders, different ages, it's hard to hoodwink.
Wisdom is the quality that keeps you from getting into situations where you need it.
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.
Our wisdom comes from our experience, and our experience comes from our foolishness.
I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.
Just the simple act of sharing wisdom is something that many parents have left to society to do; however, that is not what God teaches in His word.
To think ill of mankind and not wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue.
Logic is the beginning of wisdom, not the end.
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.
Good economic policy requires not so much the bravado to implement drastic change as the strength and wisdom to make reasonable trade-offs over the many years it takes to transform a country's standard of living.
To keep your secret is wisdom; but to expect others to keep it is folly.
It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.
Wisdom we know is the knowledge of good and evil, not the strength to choose between the two.
Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.
Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom.
Irony is the gaiety of reflection and the joy of wisdom.
In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause.
All conventional wisdom has an element of truth to it, but good design requires more than an element of truth - it requires an ensemble of correct assumptions and valid calculations.
Back of every mistaken venture and defeat is the laughter of wisdom, if you listen.
Contemplation and wisdom are highest achievements and man is not totally at home with them.
In particular, for younger researchers on whom the future of mankind may depend. We believe that they are working with all the scientific wisdom at their disposal for the preservation of the inheritance of the earth and for the lasting survival of mankind.
Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
