The conventional wisdom is that authors get only one chance in this world. If your first novel doesn’t sell, publishers and bookstores lose interest, and your career stalls, barring an act of God or Oprah.
In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause.
Wisdom may best arise from a humbling reality.
I’m not a money manager, but I can tell you what the conventional wisdom is. The younger you are, the more risk you can take on.
True wisdom listens more, talks less and can get along with all types of people.
I consider wisdom supernatural because it isn’t taught by men – it’s a gift from God.
Learning how to center and control anger, fear, sadness, weakness and learning how to channel that into something smart, cerebralizing it, meditating on it and then moving into it with wisdom – that’s important.
Wisdom has never made a bigot, but learning has.
My dad was a man of great wisdom in his short time here.
The most excellent and divine counsel, the best and most profitable advertisement of all others, but the least practiced, is to study and learn how to know ourselves. This is the foundation of wisdom and the highway to whatever is good.
I don’t think you can come into your wisdom until you have made mistakes on your own skin and felt them in reality of your own life.
The gods do not need sacrifices, so what might one do to please them? Acquire wisdom, it seems to me, and do all the good in one’s power to those humans who deserve it.
I’m at the transition place myself, still playing high school girls but moving to a stage when I’m playing older roles and going to the places of stillness and wisdom and knowledge and weight. It’s exciting and scary.
Follow the wisdom of the great actor, James Cagney, you hit your mark, you look the other guy in the eye, and you tell the truth.
Wisdom is a kind of knowledge. It is knowledge of the nature, career, and consequences of human values.
They would need to be already wise, in order to love wisdom.
Wisdom is important in every man’s life.
Now all the knowledge and wisdom that is in creatures, whether angels or men, is nothing else but a participation of that one eternal, immutable and increased wisdom of God.
Keep well; that is the half of wisdom and of happiness.
All the great evils which men cause to each other because of certain intentions, desires, opinions, or religious principles, are likewise due to non-existence, because they originate in ignorance, which is absence of wisdom.
If my wisdom could get support from officials, I think society would move forward 20 years.
I am thinking of taking a fifth wife. Why not? Solomon had a thousand wives and he is a synonym for wisdom.
People used to grow up in small communities where folk wisdom was passed down. But we don’t live there anymore. We can’t go next door to your aunt and ask her for the answers.
The philosophy I love is very selective. It is really just the bit that is involved in a search for wisdom, and this means a short roll call of names; Socrates, Marcus Aurelius, Seneca, Epicurus, Montaigne, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche.
Writing is no dying art form in America because most published writers here accept the wisdom and the necessity of encouraging the talent that follows in their footsteps.
