The reason gas prices are so high is because the oil is in Texas and Oklahoma and all the dipsticks are in Washington.
Knowledge in youth is wisdom in age.
Kisses are a better fate than wisdom.
It is now conventional wisdom that Americans do not care why we went to war in Iraq, that it is enough that the world is better off without Saddam Hussein.
The war... was an unnecessary condition of affairs, and might have been avoided if forebearance and wisdom had been practiced on both sides.
War involves in its progress such a train of unforeseen circumstances that no human wisdom can calculate the end; it has but one thing certain, and that is to increase taxes.
Public opinion is no more than this: what people think that other people think.
Authority without wisdom is like a heavy ax without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish.
Above all, you must fight conceit, envy, and every kind of ill-feeling in your heart.
All of us, at certain moments of our lives, need to take advice and to receive help from other people.
People don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're happy.
To advise is not to compel.
It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important.
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn't be done.
Irony is the gaiety of reflection and the joy of wisdom.
I prefer the folly of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.
I acknowledge the privilege of being alive in a human body at this moment, endowed with senses, memories, emotions, thoughts, and the space of mind in its wisdom aspect.
Spiritual teachers and artists that have opened the eye of wisdom for the world, and visionary community builders, have influenced my work.
The biggest handicap in research is an ability to think outside the box. The handicap is being encumbered by all the conventional wisdom in a given field.
Mainstream media tend to just mouth the conventional wisdom, to see everything through the filter of right and left.
