The most important lesson of New Labour is this: Every time we made progress we did it by challenging the conventional wisdom.
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.
The wisdom acquired with the passage of time is a useless gift unless you share it.
A man begins cutting his wisdom teeth the first time he bites off more than he can chew.
Wisdom sails with wind and time.
The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.
Man works outwardly and inwardly - after rest, he has energy; after energy, he needs repose; so, when we have given instruction for a time, we need instruction and must receive it, or the spirit faints and wisdom herself grows bitter.
People spend too much time finding other people to blame, too much energy finding excuses for not being what they are capable of being, and not enough energy putting themselves on the line, growing out of the past, and getting on with their lives.
If they can prove that I am wrong by that time, I will give it up to their wisdom, but not after to any one's judgment, till I see the end of another year; for the Lord will begin with a new century; and I will see what he will do, before I will hear...
The opportunity for brotherhood presents itself every time you meet a human being.
Novels are the Socratic dialogues of our time. Practical wisdom fled from school wisdom into this liberal form.
That old law about 'an eye for an eye' leaves everybody blind. The time is always right to do the right thing.
If you set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.
The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work.
Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.
By the time you've reached your sixties, you do know that one day you will die, and knowing that is at least the beginning of wisdom.
Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time.
We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far.
Wisdom is found only in truth.
Li Mu Bai: Sharpness is a state of mind.
CASE: Cooper, this is no time for caution.
