There is no knowledge, no light, no wisdom that you are in possession of, but what you have received it from some source.
Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself; the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache.
War involves in its progress such a train of unforeseen circumstances that no human wisdom can calculate the end; it has but one thing certain, and that is to increase taxes.
Ignorance and bungling with love are better than wisdom and skill without.
Much of the wisdom of one age, is the folly of the next.
If I can turn the most powerful part of the world into a land of wisdom and compassion, it’s going to change the rest of the world.
I find the fact that billionaires are quoted as if the fact that they are billionaires gives them some kind of wisdom is outrageous.
However glorious an action in itself, it ought not to pass for great if it be not the effect of wisdom and intention.
Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.
It’s very hard to know what wisdom is.
The time of wisdom cannot be measured, and for me, wisdom is the garden. There is no time in the garden.
Although it has been said by men of more wit than wisdom, and perhaps more malice than either, that women are naturally incapable of acting prudently, or that they are necessarily determined to folly, I must by no means grant it.
Wisdom finds its literary expression in wisdom literature.
Research the leaders in fields related to yours, synthesize their findings, and see how you can apply their hard-won wisdom to your work. Stand on their shoulders, and then make a leap into new territory that is distinctly yours.
We just don’t subscribe to the conventional wisdom that you can’t have an action series led by a female character. It’s kinda nonsense to us.
Conventional wisdom tells us we’ll only be happier after a divorce if the marriage itself was a war zone.
With age comes wisdom and a high sex drive. And the wisdom to enjoy it.
The plan was criticized by some retired military officers embedded in TV studios. But with every advance by our coalition forces, the wisdom of that plan becomes more apparent.
There is often, in the affairs of government, more efficiency and wisdom in non-action than in action.
Dr. Johnson has said that the chief glory of a country arises from its authors. But then that is only as they are oracles of wisdom; unless they teach virtue, they are more worthy of a halter than of the laurel.
It is now conventional wisdom that Americans do not care why we went to war in Iraq, that it is enough that the world is better off without Saddam Hussein.
In societies where mature workers are respected and where their wisdom is respected, everybody benefits. Workers are more engaged and productive. Their health is better. They live longer.
No man is the wiser for his learning; it may administer matter to work in, or objects to work upon; but wit and wisdom are born with a man.
The biggest handicap in research is an ability to think outside the box. The handicap is being encumbered by all the conventional wisdom in a given field.
Sciences may be learned by rote, but wisdom not.
