Wisdom comes alone through suffering.
I'm now the elder in the position of doling out wisdom and trying to mend fences.
We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it.
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 begins in wonder.
To keep your secret is wisdom; to expect others to keep it is folly.
With age comes wisdom and a high sex drive. And the wisdom to enjoy it.
Preconceived notions are the locks on the door to wisdom.
'Focusing' is no conventional repackaging of self-help wisdom. It is at once a manual and a philosophy. It talks about the body's wisdom, the steps of the focusing technique, how to discover the richness in others by learning to listen.
It's one thing to really dream and have a vision and want all these cool things, but it's a whole other thing when you actually have wisdom and understand things. Then you can truly make the best decisions.
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.
Spending two years on my uncle's ranch in Montana as a young man gave me the wisdom and the thrust to do westerns.
Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.
Lessons of wisdom have the most power over us when they capture the heart through the groundwork of a story, which engages the passions.
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.
Normally street children are shown in terms of the tragedy of their lives - which is true - but there's also another dimension: their wisdom, dignity and enormous capacity for survival.
Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men.
My government, you can be assured, will be less focused on personalities. It is about treating people with respect. I think complaining about the community not being able to see the wisdom of our ideas is the wrong approach.
Cunning... is but the low mimic of wisdom.
Wisdom is a kind of knowledge. It is knowledge of the nature, career, and consequences of human values.
It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.
Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.
You can only make sense of the online world by going offline and by getting the wisdom and emotional clarity to know how to make the best use of the Internet.
Knowledge is marvelous, but wisdom is even better.
After all my possessions had been burned, God gave me the wisdom to return to Jerusalem.
This fear of the Lord is indeed the beginning of wisdom. This consciousness of sin is the straight pathway to heaven.
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 humans have lost the wisdom of genuinely resting and relaxing. We worry too much. We don't allow our bodies to heal, and we don't allow our minds and hearts to heal.
To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.
There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.
The pine stays green in winter... wisdom in hardship.
I'll come to you with gifts of knowledge, wisdom and truth.
Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment.
Saudi Arabia is a puritanical state that claims a monopoly of wisdom and virtue.
If I am fool, it is, at least, a doubting one; and I envy no one the certainty of his self-approved wisdom.
Beauty, the eternal Spouse of the Wisdom of God and Angel of his Presence thru' all creation.
