Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it.
Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom.
If religion comes into the public square, it is as vulnerable as any other human institution to be pelted with produce. Ignorance does not become wisdom just because you gussy it up with the Gospels.
A grandparent can be simply affirming. A grandparent has been there, done that child-raising stuff, and has the wisdom of experience. And so in some ways, they're free to love without the anxiety of being the actual parents. They're free to give.
God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.
Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.
The wheel that squeaks the loudest is the one that gets the grease.
Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.
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.
Our great power does not mean we can do whatever we want whenever we want, nor should we assume we have all the wisdom and knowledge necessary to succeed.
My mother is a great source of advice and wisdom and consolation for me.
Suffering is one of life's great teachers.
Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool; the truest heroism is to resist the doubt; and the profoundest wisdom, to know when it ought to be resisted, and when it be obeyed.
The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge.
When an opponent comes forward, move in and greet him; if he wants to pull back, send him on his way.
I don't turn to greeting cards for wisdom and advice, but they are a fine reflection of the general drift of the culture.
Lessons of wisdom have the most power over us when they capture the heart through the groundwork of a story, which engages the passions.
Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live.
Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.
