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.
You can only learn so much from books. You can only learn so much from education. Ultimately, it is the wisdom of God that will carry you through in the toughest situations of life.
‘Star Trek’ was an attempt to say humanity will reach maturity and wisdom on the day that it begins not just to tolerate but take a special delight in differences in ideas and differences in lifeforms.
The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.
Along with success comes a reputation for wisdom.
For all my education, accomplishments, and so called ‘wisdom’… I can’t fathom my own heart.
Has fortune dealt you some bad cards. Then let wisdom make you a good gamester.
Sometimes you surprise yourself with what you can handle, and if you come out the other end with some wisdom, then it’s not such a bad thing.
The world is a diverse place. Nobody has a monopoly on virtue or wisdom.
Wisdom is a gift but has nothing to do with age. That was probably the case with me.
Authority is supposedly grounded in wisdom, but I could see from a very early age that authority was only a system of control. And it didn’t have any inherent wisdom. I quickly realized that you either became a power or you were crushed.
Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues.
If you have the guts to keep making mistakes, your wisdom and intelligence leap forward with huge momentum.
In complete darkness, it is only knowledge and wisdom that separates us.
No one who cooks, cooks alone. Even at her most solitary, a cook in the kitchen is surrounded by generations of cooks past, the advice and menus of cooks present, and the wisdom of cookbook writers.
The ‘Reader’s Digest’ used to run a feature called ‘It Pays to Increase Your Word Power.’ The new wisdom – post-Trump and Brexit – is that it doesn’t.
The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.
Wisdom, prudence, forethought, these are essential. But not second to these that noble courage which adventures the right, and leaves the consequences to God.
What makes Superman a hero is not that he has power, but that he has the wisdom and the maturity to use the power wisely. From an acting point of view, that’s how I approached the part.
There is as much wisdom in listening as there is in speaking – and that goes for all relationships, not just romantic ones.
To keep your secret is wisdom; but to expect others to keep it is folly.
Our wisdom comes from our experience, and our experience comes from our foolishness.
Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech.
Passion without purpose is kind of pointless. I think God gives us the vision and wisdom to help enforce what he sees for us. You don’t just sit at home and end up on ‘Empire.’
But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.
