I believe the continually advancing Information Revolution will lend us the wisdom and strength to address humanity’s previously unsolvable problems and help us make a positive impact on all of society.
We learned in World War II that no single nation holds a monopoly on wisdom, morality or right to power, but that we must fight for the weak and promote democracy.
If you are bitter, you are like a dry leaf that you can just squash, and you can get blown away by the wind. There is much more wisdom in forgiveness.
Women are stronger than men – they do not die of wisdom.
The conventional wisdom is that if you are gay, you cannot play the romantic straight lead in a movie.
In order to have wisdom we must have ignorance.
Experience – the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.
Because in the school of the Spirit man learns wisdom through humility, knowledge by forgetting, how to speak by silence, how to live by dying.
The weak have remedies, the wise have joys; superior wisdom is superior bliss.
The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.
Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.
Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.
It seems to me that, in every culture, I come across a chapter headed ‘Wisdom.’ And then I know exactly what is going to follow: ‘Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.’
Our experience is composed rather of illusions lost than of wisdom acquired.
One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know.
The thing that we possess, that machines don’t, is the ability to exhibit wisdom.
Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.
Both in thought and in feeling, even though time be real, to realise the unimportance of time is the gate of wisdom.
If you have a vaccine or an antidote that people can benefit from, you’re not going to want to keep it to yourself. You’re going to want to spread that wisdom or whatever to as many people as you can, so everybody can benefit from it.
All free governments are managed by the combined wisdom and folly of the people.
Mixing one’s wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.
I love wisdom. And you can never be great at anything unless you love it. Not be in love with it, but love the thing, admire the thing. And it seems that if you love the thing, and you don’t just want to possess it, it will find you.
Cunning… is but the low mimic of wisdom.
Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.
I’m no expert. I have no psychic powers, and I sure don’t possess any secret wisdom. I’m just Janet. I have strengths, weaknesses, fears, happiness, sadness. I experience joy and I experience pain. I’m highly emotional. I’m very vulnerable.
