It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.
My aim, then, was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us. Fear is the beginning of wisdom.
Whatever religion or wisdom, spirituality and values are important to me and to the business.
Evil can be a teacher, if you look at the wisdom of its negative power.
No, I never - no one ever - I never learned anything when I was a kid. Honestly, my parents had nothing to tell me - like, no wisdom, nothing.
It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.
This, and this alone, is Christianity, a universal holiness in every part of life, a heavenly wisdom in all our actions, not conforming to the spirit and temper of the world but turning all worldly enjoyments into means of piety and devotion to God.
Whether the aim is in heaven or on earth, wisdom or wealth, the essential condition of its pursuit and attainment is always security and order.
Now all the knowledge and wisdom that is in creatures, whether angels or men, is nothing else but a participation of that one eternal, immutable and increased wisdom of God.
Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.
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.
Not engaging in ignorance is wisdom.
Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that deceives them.
Wisdom is knowledge which has become a part of one's being.
All free governments are managed by the combined wisdom and folly of the people.
Teach your children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.
The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
Our shared values define us more than our differences. And acknowledging those shared values can see us through our challenges today if we have the wisdom to trust in them again.
Always keep your mind as bright and clear as the vast sky, the great ocean, and the highest peak, empty of all thoughts. Always keep your body filled with light and heat. Fill yourself with the power of wisdom and enlightenment.
Age does not bring you wisdom, age brings you wrinkles.
The doors of wisdom are never shut.
The result showed the wisdom of your orders.
My father lived life to the fullest, even though it was cut short at a young age in 1962. He was known for his intelligence, wit, wisdom, a wonderful sense of humour, a great personality, and a genuine goodwill towards all.
I have no agenda except to be funny. Neither I or the writers profess to offer any worldly wisdom.
This ceremony and the intellectual aura associated with the Nobel Prizes have grown from the wisdom of a practical chemist who wrote a remarkable will.
Wisdom comes by disillusionment.
Wisdom is humble that he knows no more.
Books are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom.
I think that we have a great opportunity to impart our wisdom and our knowledge and our experience to this younger generation. It may be different times, but experience transcends time, and wisdom transcends time.
The problem with Google is you have 360 degrees of omnidirectional information on a linear basis, but the algorithms for irony and ambiguity are not there. And those are the algorithms of wisdom.
Mainstream media tend to just mouth the conventional wisdom, to see everything through the filter of right and left.
They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.
Don't gain the world and lose your soul; wisdom is better than silver or gold.
He was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the rich.
I do interviews because it's a chance to be myself. I sometimes wonder what I could have to say that would be of any interest. I don't have any great wisdom.
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.
