Success is a wonderful thing, but it tends not to be the sort of experience that we learn from. We enjoy it; perhaps we even deserve it. But we don’t acquire wisdom from it.
Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.
No one has a monopoly on truth, and science continues to advance. Yesterday’s heresies may be tomorrow’s conventional wisdom.
Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that deceives them.
Much wisdom often goes with fewest words.
Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future.
Books are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom.
Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two. A constant coming and going: wisdom lies in the momentary.
Follow your instincts. That’s where true wisdom manifests itself.
A cardinal rule in budgeting and saving is to pay yourself first. Once your paycheck hits your account, wisdom has it that you should move some amount to savings even before you pay the bills.
In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.
If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise.
Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.
Doubt the conventional wisdom unless you can verify it with reason and experiment.
In your 20s you can be pretty, but you don’t accomplish real beauty until you find wisdom and depth.
Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.
Books should to one of these fours ends conduce, for wisdom, piety, delight, or use.
In world mythology, there are countless examples of tragic characters whose greatest strength is also the source of their undoing. But the ancient Greeks and Romans also held the view that acceptance is the beginning of wisdom.
I am a poor student sitting at the feet of giants, yearning for their wisdom and begging for lessons that might one day make me a complete artist, so that if all goes well, I may one day sit beside them.
I don’t want to put a pause on the rest of my life; I’m really enjoying getting older and the wisdom that comes from that.
Discipline is wisdom and vice versa.
The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation, the man of manly character and of wisdom.
Earthly wisdom is doing what comes naturally. Godly wisdom is doing what the Holy Spirit compels us to do.
Contemplation and wisdom are highest achievements and man is not totally at home with them.
Enraging liberals is simply one of the more enjoyable side effects of my wisdom.
