It is astonishing what force, purity, and wisdom it requires for a human being to keep clear of falsehoods.
It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.
You need to have extraordinary wisdom to be the forerunner.
Not a single illegal immigrant should or need enter the United States, not one. Contrary to the common wisdom, the borders are easy to seal, and controlling entry is hardly totalitarian.
Global security can be formed or threatened by heads of state whose wisdom, folly and obsessions shape global events. But often it is the security practitioners, those rarely in the headlines but whose craft and energy quietly break new ground, who k...
Our ascendancy of the past two centuries - first Europe and then the U.S. - has bred a western-centric mentality: the West is the fount of all wisdom. We think of ourselves as open-minded, but our sense of superiority has closed our minds. We never e...
If you're trying to achieve, there will be roadblocks. I've had them; everybody has had them. But obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.
Common wisdom dictates that the vice president should provide balance to the ticket by representing a different part of the country, another set of experiences, or a basketful of electoral votes.
The stupidity of people comes from having an answer for everything. The wisdom of the novel comes from having a question for everything.
He who devotes sixteen hours a day to hard study may become at sixty as wise as he thought himself at twenty.
It is not from reason that justice springs, but goodness is born of wisdom.
The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.
It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.
We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.
We cannot become what we need to be by remaining what we are.
Discipline is wisdom and vice versa.
Silence and reserve will give anyone a reputation for wisdom.
My father said there were two kinds of people in the world: givers and takers. The takers may eat better, but the givers sleep better.
Memory is not wisdom; idiots can by rote repeat volumes. Yet what is wisdom without memory?
When an opponent comes forward, move in and greet him; if he wants to pull back, send him on his way.
Lord, give us the wisdom to utter words that are gentle and tender, for tomorrow we may have to eat them.
