After all my possessions had been burned, God gave me the wisdom to return to Jerusalem.
An ounce of cheerfulness is worth a pound of sadness to serve God with.
In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.
Man is only great when he acts from passion.
To build a great company, which is a CEO's job, sometimes you have to stand up against conventional wisdom.
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.
Through mutual understanding, sincerity and goodwill, and with great wisdom and broad views, the leaders on both sides should jointly initiate new opportunities for peace, stability, cooperation and mutual benefit.
As a parent and a citizen, I'll take a Bill Gates (or Warren Buffett) over Steve Jobs every time. If we must have billionaires, better they should ignore Jobs's example and instead embrace the morality and wisdom of the great industrialist-philanthro...
Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.
However glorious an action in itself, it ought not to pass for great if it be not the effect of wisdom and intention.
I did learn that some of the things that are great for locker rooms are inappropriate for political discourse. That's a wisdom I've garnered.
As great as Ed is, the wisdom out here is that he can't carry a movie. They'll pay him $3 million to be the second banana in Julia Roberts things. But they won't put up $3 million for an Ed Harris movie.
The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are.
The conventional wisdom is that people come to the United States, and immigration is so great, and they say, 'America, what a great country.' And a lot of that is true.
A great memory is never made synonymous with wisdom, any more than a dictionary would be called a treatise.
What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?
Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain.
My mother is a great source of advice and wisdom and consolation for me.
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.
It takes a great man to give sound advice tactfully, but a greater to accept it graciously.
At sixty, I know little more about wisdom than I did at thirty, but I know a great deal more about folly.
