Unhappy is that Grandeur which makes us too great to be good; and that Wit which sets us at a distance from true Wisdom.
The first point of wisdom is to discern that which is false; the second, to know that which is true.
Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom.
More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.
The more you meditate on the laws of Moses, the more striking and brighter does their wisdom appear.
Wisdom comes out of dialogue so you have to develop the capacity to expose your own ignorance in order that they may discover their own wisdom.
Never accept ultimatums, conventional wisdom, or absolutes.
It is not from reason that justice springs, but goodness is born of wisdom.
Even by common wisdom, there seem to be both people and objects in my dream that are outside myself, but clearly they were created in myself and are part of me, they are mental constructs in my own brain.
Let my skin and sinews and bones dry up, together with all the flesh and blood of my body! I welcome it! But I will not move from this spot until I have attained the supreme and final wisdom.
I’m married. My wife, Stella – a beautiful woman. She’s brought a lot of peace to my life, a lot of wisdom.
Thinking is not enough. There is no final enough of wisdom, experience – any… thing.
It has become part of the accepted wisdom to say that the twentieth century was the century of physics and the twenty-first century will be the century of biology.
One could surely argue that the Buddhist tradition, taken as a whole, represents the richest source of contemplative wisdom that any civilization has produced.
Science investigates; religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power; religion gives man wisdom which is control.
It is plain to me that our prelates, in granting indulgences, do commonly blaspheme the wisdom of God.
Rightly defined philosophy is simply the love of wisdom.
Wisdom is not acquired save as the result of investigation.
I reject most conventional wisdom.
I love Winston Churchill. I love the wisdom he had, the sagacity. I like people who are independent-minded. People who aren’t part of clans or systems, who are talented and free, and able to do things without being corrupted by the system.
The wisdom of age: don’t stop walking.
Where can we find greater structural clarity than in the wooden buildings of old? Where else can we find such unity of material, construction and form? here, the wisdom of whole generations is stored.
What I want is to have people’s notion of adulthood no longer be so defined by being a parent. There is some kind of conventional wisdom that you’re not really a mature person until you become a parent.
Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience.
I always told, Sandra Bullock was my student when she was younger, I always told her it’s important that we hold on to our insecurity, the wisdom of insecurity.
