Be there a will, and wisdom finds a way.
Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought - asleep. When we are weary of the living, we may repair to the dead, who have nothing of peevishness, pride, or design in their conversation.
Losing faith in your own singularity is the start of wisdom, I suppose; also the first announcement of death.
Perhaps religious conscience upsets the designs of those who feel that the highest wisdom and authority comes from government. But from the beginning, this nation trusted in God, not man. Religious liberty is the first freedom in our Constitution.
Someday in the distant cyborg future, when our internal and external memories fully merge, we may come to possess infinite knowledge. But that's not the same thing as wisdom.
Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them in their mediocrity.
The long-standing wisdom that everyone wins in a single world market has been undermined. Global trade, capital flows, and immigration are declining.
It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.
There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.
Along with success comes a reputation for wisdom.
He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.
The wisdom of age: don't stop walking.
Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.
Through consciousness, our minds have the power to change our planet and ourselves. It is time we heed the wisdom of the ancient indigenous people and channel our consciousness and spirit to tend the garden and not destroy it.
Conventional wisdom holds that setting a timetable for getting American troops out of Iraq would be a mistake.
We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already.
He who is taught to live upon little owes more to his father's wisdom than he who has a great deal left him does to his father's care.
In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.
I do think that the standard media is controlled by the conventional wisdom about global warming. We've come to believe - from reading a lot of articles and talking to a lot of scientists - that there's another side to be heard.
Those who improve with age embrace the power of personal growth and personal achievement and begin to replace youth with wisdom, innocence with understanding, and lack of purpose with self-actualization.
I look forward to a great future for America - a future in which our country will match its military strength with our moral restraint, its wealth with our wisdom, its power with our purpose.
The perceived wisdom is that people do not go in large numbers to black-and-white movies anymore - which is a great shame, but I'd love to make a black-and-white movie one day.
Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in the way in which the man of practical wisdom would determine it.
Unhappy is that Grandeur which makes us too great to be good; and that Wit which sets us at a distance from true Wisdom.
They would need to be already wise, in order to love wisdom.
Critical in this process of wisdom being passed down is that you also need to take it in; you need to listen to it.
We do not sit as a superlegislature to weigh the wisdom of legislation.
I don't turn to greeting cards for wisdom and advice, but they are a fine reflection of the general drift of the culture.
Many spiritual teachers - in Buddhism, in Islam - have talked about first-hand experience of the world as an important part of the path to wisdom, to enlightenment.
God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other.
And I pray thee, loving Jesus, that as Thou hast graciously given me to drink in with delight the words of Thy knowledge, so Thou wouldst mercifully grant me to attain one day to Thee, the fountain of all wisdom and to appear forever before Thy face.
To suppose more than one supreme Source of infinite wisdom, power, and all perfections, is to assert that there is no supreme Being in existence.
Man's wisdom is his best friend; folly his worst enemy.
And it is no less true, that personal security and private property rest entirely upon the wisdom, the stability, and the integrity of the courts of justice.
Moderation is the inseparable companion of wisdom, but with it genius has not even a nodding acquaintance.
We have heeded no wisdom offering guidance.
