Unhappy is that Grandeur which makes us too great to be good; and that Wit which sets us at a distance from true Wisdom.
I don't know that you're able to measure your aggregate wisdom as you go through life. I can't say that I ever feel that I'm sitting on top of a growing mound of wisdom.
As an instrument for practical action, law is responsive to the wisdom of its time, which may be wrong, but it carries forward, sometimes in opposition to this wisdom or passion, a memory of received values.
Lloyd: Women: can't live with them, can't live without them. Jack Torrance: Words of wisdom, Lloyd my man. Words of wisdom.
The hot sun melts away the snow; when anger comes, does wisdom go.
No one will say, "My father is incontinent." Everyone will say, "He is a man of advice and wisdom."
A spoon does not know the taste of soup, nor a learned fool the taste of wisdom.
I've agreed to do several Star Trek conventions this coming year.
I'm not a conventional leading man at all and have no wish to be.
I think I'm a difficult conventional writer.
As Bill Clinton said so eloquently at the convention, during Vietnam there was a chance to serve; there was a chance not to serve.
I used to have a great fear of constitutional conventions. I have a great fear now of not having one.
Brought up to respect the conventions, love had to end in marriage. I'm afraid it did.
Radical constructivism, thus, is radical because it breaks with convention and develops a theory of knowledge in which knowledge does not reflect an 'objective' ontological reality.
Fashion has always been in conflict with convention. Style involves some knowledge of both. But you can pretty much forget these seasonal injunctions.
The conventional definition of reality, and the idea of 'normal life', mean nothing.
Charlie's not your conventional mathematician... we sexed him up a little bit.
My religion centers in different areas than what's considered conventional religion.
I would never get married in a conventional way; I'd have the 'Curb' music as the union music.
Massachusetts women as a rule adhere too strongly to old-time conventions.
I don’t think it would have all got me quite so down if just once in a while—just once in a while—there was at least some polite little perfunctory implication that knowledge should lead to wisdom, and that if it doesn't, it's just a disgusting...
