From the errors of others, a wise man corrects his own.
Hatred is corrosive of a person's wisdom and conscience; the mentality of enmity can poison a nation's spirit, instigate brutal life and death struggles, destroy a society's tolerance and humanity, and block a nation's progress to freedom and democracy.
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.
Life is the only real counselor; wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue.
Wise kings generally have wise counselors; and he must be a wise man himself who is capable of distinguishing one.
Set your course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.
The more I draw and write, the more I realise that accidents are a necessary part of any creative act, much more so than logic or wisdom. Sometimes a mistake is the only way of arriving at an original concept, and the history of successful inventions is full of mishaps, serendipity and unintended results.
We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom. The world henceforth will be run by synthesizers, people able to put together the right information at the right time, think critically about it, and make important choices wisely.
Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that deceives them.
Linux is a complex example of the wisdom of crowds. It's a good example in the sense that it shows you can set people to work in a decentralized way - that is, without anyone really directing their efforts in a particular direction - and still trust that they're going to come up with good answers.
Through the years, I, like you, have experienced pressures and disappointments that would have crushed me had I not been able to draw upon a source of wisdom and strength far greater than my own. He has never forgotten or forsaken me, and I have come to know for myself that Jesus is the Christ and that this is His Church.
He who lives by the crystal ball soon learns to eat ground glass.
Knowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom.
Cunning... is but the low mimic of wisdom.
Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.
Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency.
I am not one who was born in the custody of wisdom; I am one who is fond of olden times and intense in quest of the sacred knowing of the ancients.
Information is not knowledge, and knowledge is not wisdom. Reading - even browsing - an old book can yield sustenance denied by a database search. Patience is a virtue, gluttony a sin.
O, what a tangled web we weave when first we practise to deceive!
First appearance deceives many.
