The enemy of the conventional wisdom is not ideas but the march of events.
In the frank expression of conflicting opinions lies the greatest promise of wisdom in governmental action.
Surely, God on high has not refused to give us enough wisdom to find ways to bring us an improvement in relations between the two great nations on earth.
The truest greatness lies in being kind, the truest wisdom in a happy mind.
A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.
It is astonishing what force, purity, and wisdom it requires for a human being to keep clear of falsehoods.
The Relation we bear to the Wisdom of the Father, the Son of His Love, gives us indeed a dignity which otherwise we have no pretence to. It makes us something, something considerable even in God's Eyes.
Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.
He whose wisdom cannot help him, gets no good from being wise.
But in its final creation it was not the part of the Father's power to fail as though exhausted. It was not the part of His wisdom to waver in a needful matter through poverty of counsel.
This age thinks better of a gilded fool Than of a threadbare saint in wisdom's school.
There is a trade off - as you grow older you gain wisdom but you lose spontaneity.
Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.
War involves in its progress such a train of unforeseen circumstances that no human wisdom can calculate the end; it has but one thing certain, and that is to increase taxes.
Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time.
Practical wisdom is only to be learned in the school of experience. Precepts and instruction are useful so far as they go, but, without the discipline of real life, they remain of the nature of theory only.
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.
In order to have wisdom we must have ignorance.
Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.
Science is always discovering odd scraps of magical wisdom and making a tremendous fuss about its cleverness.
I have devoted my life to uncertainty. Certainty is the death of wisdom, thought, creativity.
God in His wisdom has decided that He will reward no works but His own.
In garden arrangement, as in all other kinds of decorative work, one has not only to acquire a knowledge of what to do, but also to gain some wisdom in perceiving what it is well to let alone.
My company survives because I've learned to respect the ideas of people younger than me and recognize when my wisdom is obsolete.
Your art kind of changes as you get older, by nature of the fact that you're hopefully gaining wisdom and you're starting to watch things with a better overview.
What I've been able to do with my character, Madea, and the other characters, with the jokes, is use it as an anesthetic to get to the heart and soul of real issues. And what I've found on stage over the years is that, while making people laugh, I can drop in pearls of wisdom.
Some wisdom you must learn from one who's wise.
Lord, bless me with the ability to achieve all that I can, and the wisdom to realize it doesn't all have to be by tomorrow!
The thing that we possess, that machines don't, is the ability to exhibit wisdom.
Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects. The best public measures are therefore seldom adopted from previous wisdom, but forced by the occasion.
When I go out to direct a film, every day we prepare too much, we think too much. Knowledge becomes a weight upon wisdom. You know, simple words lost in the quicksand of experience.
There is no knowledge, no light, no wisdom that you are in possession of, but what you have received it from some source.
By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.
That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in another.
The constitutions of Maryland and New York are founded in higher wisdom.
The so-called oligarchs have always had less influence than conventional wisdom attributed to them.
