Wisdom Quotes
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Conventional wisdom is you don't need too many bond funds.
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A boy is supremely confident of his own power, and dislikes being treated as a child.
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When you want wisdom and insight as badly as you want to breathe, it is then you shall have it.
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When I can look life in the eyes, grown calm and very coldly wise, life will have given me the truth, and taken in exchange - my youth.
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All human wisdom works and has worries and grief as reward.
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Then I turned to him commanding That he go the way he came, whence he came. But he answered me in sorrow, "May the Past not seek to borrow From the Present without blame - Just one memory from its store, Ere it goes to come no more, Back the pathway that it came, whence it came?"
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As a citizen and someone who was a judge on the constitutional law court for 18 years, I feel whenever I can raise my voice with the hope of being heard I need to do it, but I wouldn't assign a special wisdom and responsibility to writers.
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True wisdom consists in not departing from nature and in molding our conduct according to her laws and model.
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Prudence is the footprint of Wisdom.
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What we call wisdom is the result of all the wisdom of past ages. Our best institutions are like young trees growing upon the roots of the old trunks that have crumbled away.
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Those wretches who never have experienced the sweets of wisdom and virtue, but spend all their time in revels and debauches, sink downward day after day, and make their whole life one continued series of errors.
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You cried when He took away your drop of water, not knowing He'd saved for you, the sea.
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Every trial a man goes through, if he is faithful in that trial and does honor to God and his religion he has espoused, at the end of that trial or affliction that individual is nearer to God, nearer in regard to the increase of faith, wisdom, knowledge and power, and hence is more confident in calling upon the Lord for those things he desires.
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He who learns the rules of wisdom, without conforming to them in his life, is like a man who labored in his fields, but did not sow
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Phronimos, possessing practical wisdom . But the only virtue special to a ruler is practical wisdom; all the others must be possessed, so it seems, both by rulers and ruled. The virtue of a person being ruled is not practical wisdom but correct opinion; he is rather like a person who makes the pipes, while the ruler is the one who can play them.
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The nine Wise Words are full of wisdom, besides being decidedly funny.
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We shall yet acknowledge His wisdom and our own error therein.
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Hardships make us strong. Problems give birth to wisdom. Sorrows cultivate compassion. Those who have suffered the most will become the happiest.
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Instead of looking at life as a narrowing funnel, we can see it ever widening to choose the things we want to do, to take the wisdom we've learned and create something.
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Wisdom is that apprehension of heavenly things to which the spirit rises through love.
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To light one candle to God and another to the Devil is the principle of wisdom.
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First a piece of Irish wisdom: you should always listen to a bookie. For they have a saying, 'Money tells a good story,' and somewhere in their odds is a kind of science-fiction existentialism that decrees that we, the people, know everything. In other words, betting patterns often make for good, unconscious soothsaying.
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Since human wisdom cannot secure us from accidents, it is the greatest effort of reason to bear them well.
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If you have love, you can correct people without saying anything to them because love is a supreme intelligence.
