The more tranquil a man becomes, the greater is his success, his influence, his power for good. Calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom.
Wisdom is knowing when you can’t be wise.
In life, all good things come hard, but wisdom is the hardest to come by.
The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.
That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in another.
Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust.
Start with God – the first step in learning is bowing down to God; only fools thumb their noses at such wisdom and learning.
The all-seeing eye of God beheld our deplorable state; infinite pity touched the heart of the Father of mercies; and infinite wisdom laid the plan of our recovery.
Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance.
To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.
My past is my wisdom to use today… my future is my wisdom yet to experience. Be in the present because that is where life resides.
Losing faith in your own singularity is the start of wisdom, I suppose; also the first announcement of death.
The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work.
Wisdom comes from within. Knowledge is acquired and can sometimes put a screen on your wisdom.
Imagination allows us to escape the predictable. It enables us to reply to the common wisdom that we cannot soar by saying, ‘Just watch!’
Clearly older women and especially older women who have led an active life or elder women who successfully maneuver through their own family life have so much to teach us about sharing, patience, and wisdom.
We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.
I’m not wise, but the beginning of wisdom is there; it’s like relaxing into – and an acceptance of – things.
The wisdom and experience of older people is a resource of inestimable worth. Recognizing and treasuring the contributions of older people is essential to the long-term flourishing of any society.
Even when you have doubts, take that step. Take chances. Mistakes are never a failure – they can be turned into wisdom.
The Founding Fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents. So they provided jails called schools, equipped with tortures called an education.
Wisdom cannot come by railroad or automobile or aeroplane, or be hurried up by telegraph or telephone.
The final wisdom of life requires not the annulment of incongruity but the achievement of serenity within and above it.
America’s freedom of religion, and freedom from religion, offers every wisdom tradition an opportunity to address our soul-deep needs: Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, secular humanism, agnosticism and atheism among others.
The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom… in a clarification of life – not necessarily a great clarification, such as sects and cults are founded on, but in a momentary stay against confusion.
