Now our founding fathers had the wisdom to know that social acceptance and popularity were fleeing, and that this country's principles needed to be rooted in strengths greater than the passions and the emotions of the times.
How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone.
Purity engenders Wisdom, Passion avarice, and Ignorance folly, infatuation and darkness.
There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our l...
There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart.
You can't sweep other people off their feet, if you can't be swept off your own.
Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
The left has come to regard common sense - the traditional wisdom and folkways of the community - as an obstacle to progress and enlightenment.
Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours.
But I do think it's important to remember that writers do not have a monopoly of wisdom on their books. They can be wrong about their own books, they can often learn about their own books.
Some coaches pray for wisdom. I pray for 260-pound tackles. They'll give me plenty of wisdom.
When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.
Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it.
There's the conventional wisdom, of which I have none, where you get a record deal, you get a publicist, you get a campaign, and you do the tour, but none of that adds up to things like nuance and subtlety and dynamic.
Never accept ultimatums, conventional wisdom, or absolutes.
Back of every mistaken venture and defeat is the laughter of wisdom, if you listen.
Earthly wisdom is doing what comes naturally. Godly wisdom is doing what the Holy Spirit compels us to do.
The greatest wisdom is to realize one's lack of it.
The plan was criticized by some retired military officers embedded in TV studios. But with every advance by our coalition forces, the wisdom of that plan becomes more apparent.
The older I get the more wisdom I find in the ancient rule of taking first things first. A process which often reduces the most complex human problem to a manageable proportion.
Has Werner Herzog ever said anything that wasn't true? What a brilliant fountain of wisdom. Everything he touches I'm just fascinated by.
