There is no wisdom of man that can change men or change nations; it is the power and wisdom of God that can.
My company survives because I’ve learned to respect the ideas of people younger than me and recognize when my wisdom is obsolete.
Democracy, loudly upheld as a cure for much of the ailing world, has proved no guarantor of political wisdom, even if it remains the least bad form of government.
I’d love to spend more time on the Isle of Man. I love the anonymity of putting on a boiler suit and going down to buy parts for the compressor. And Norman Wisdom’s a neighbour; I salute him occasionally.
Knowing that you are going to die is, I suspect, the beginning of wisdom.
Pessimism is only the name that men of weak nerves give to wisdom.
To keep your secret is wisdom; to expect others to keep it is folly.
What we need and have not got at Westminster are real experience and wisdom, possessed by people who do not view politics as a career.
When spirituality is the basis of your life, it gives you the strength, wisdom and courage to surmount the many storms of life that could destroy a weaker person who doesn’t have this foundation.
The democratic system is premised on trust in the masses’ wisdom. We believe that the collective is wiser than its parts and that, at the end of the day, it shall make the right choices and take the right decisions.
It is good even for old men to learn wisdom.
We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it.
Surely, God on high has not refused to give us enough wisdom to find ways to bring us an improvement in relations between the two great nations on earth.
For the subtlest folly proceeds from the subtlest wisdom.
You need to have extraordinary wisdom to be the forerunner.
Nothing can be better calculated to advance our interests and character than the establishment of a liberal and disinterested policy, enlightened by patriotism and guided by wisdom.
The result showed the wisdom of your orders.
To Steve and Jane Beshear, I am grateful for your wisdom and passion for helping the people of our great state. You have been wonderful parents.
He whose wisdom cannot help him, gets no good from being wise.
My government, you can be assured, will be less focused on personalities. It is about treating people with respect. I think complaining about the community not being able to see the wisdom of our ideas is the wrong approach.
‘Focusing’ is no conventional repackaging of self-help wisdom. It is at once a manual and a philosophy. It talks about the body’s wisdom, the steps of the focusing technique, how to discover the richness in others by learning to listen.
Knowledge is the consequence of time, and multitude of days are fittest to teach wisdom.
Someday in the distant cyborg future, when our internal and external memories fully merge, we may come to possess infinite knowledge. But that’s not the same thing as wisdom.
The blowback against a bailout of Lehman would have been fierce. It is often forgotten, but the prevailing wisdom the day after Lehman fell was that its collapse was a good thing.
All conventional wisdom has an element of truth to it, but good design requires more than an element of truth – it requires an ensemble of correct assumptions and valid calculations.
