For all my education, accomplishments, and so called 'wisdom'... I can't fathom my own heart.
A wholesome oblivion of one's neighbours is the beginning of wisdom.
Books give not wisdom where none was before. But where some is, there reading makes it more.
The conventional wisdom is that if you are gay, you cannot play the romantic straight lead in a movie.
Wisdom and goodness are twin-born, one heart must hold both sisters, never seen apart.
Rediscovering the wisdom of love and compassion may help us survive at a time when an increasingly balkanized world so badly needs it.
It's very hard to know what wisdom is.
I'm not a money manager, but I can tell you what the conventional wisdom is. The younger you are, the more risk you can take on.
Remembering is painful, it's difficult, but it can be inspiring and it can give wisdom.
Wisdom begins at the end.
And I love that even in the toughest moments, when we're all sweating it - when we're worried that the bill won't pass, and it seems like all is lost - Barack never lets himself get distracted by the chatter and the noise. Just like his grandmother, he just keeps getting up and moving forward... with patience and wisdom, and courage and grace.
Since human wisdom cannot secure us from accidents, it is the greatest effort of reason to bear them well.
Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?
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.
We respect our elders. There is wisdom that comes from experience, and I am not going to stop learning from wise counsel.
The hours of folly are measured by the clock; but of wisdom, no clock can measure.
A man of strength and wisdom, John Paul became an inspiration to generations of both Catholics and non-Catholics throughout the world by encouraging freedom, promoting peace and respecting all faiths.
Knowledge is the consequence of time, and multitude of days are fittest to teach wisdom.
Just look at what is right in front of you. People don't do that. They see what they expect to see, what they want to see, what conventional wisdom tells them to see. They only hear the music and not the lyrics of human events.
The ultimate wisdom which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed. There it lies, the simplest fact of the universe and at the same time the one which calls faith rather than reason.
Men who know themselves are no longer fools. They stand on the threshold of the door of Wisdom.
There are three methods to gaining wisdom. The first is reflection, which is the highest. The second is limitation, which is the easiest. The third is experience, which is the bitterest.
Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.
Every nation whose affairs betray a want of wisdom and stability may calculate on every loss which can be sustained from the more systematic policy of its wiser neighbors.
My mother is a great source of advice and wisdom and consolation for me.
Ending poverty calls for humility, honesty, freedom from ideology and refusal to accept cruel simplicities about anyone's human potential. It requires listening to the wisdom and cutting the nonsense from both the Right and the Left.
The extreme limit of wisdom, that's what the public calls madness.
A lot of people tell me a lot of things about my conduct, my game, my future... but I try to stay away from their words of wisdom. I don't let it distract me. On the field, you will be facing the ball alone. If you fail, you will the only one to blame. So, you should be the one deciding for yourself.
The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation, the man of manly character and of wisdom.
Radical common sense is the wisdom gleaned from the past that recognizes the perishable opportunities of the moment. It is the willingness to admit error and the refusal to be deterred by failure.
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.
While people are quick to praise the wisdom of the crowd, being an old-school journalist, I look at the wisdom of the crowd and know it can quickly turn into a mob mentality.
But the law of God came from heaven indeed. God wrote it with his finger, it is the fountain of all wisdom, and therefore shall it continue for ever, and never have an end.
Even when you have doubts, take that step. Take chances. Mistakes are never a failure - they can be turned into wisdom.
At sixty, I know little more about wisdom than I did at thirty, but I know a great deal more about folly.
People always blame the girl; she should have said no. A monosyllable, but conventional wisdom has always been that boys can't manage it.
