One could surely argue that the Buddhist tradition, taken as a whole, represents the richest source of contemplative wisdom that any civilization has produced.
I've always enjoyed doing challenging things and also challenging common wisdom.
To keep your secret is wisdom; but to expect others to keep it is folly.
I always told, Sandra Bullock was my student when she was younger, I always told her it's important that we hold on to our insecurity, the wisdom of insecurity.
My own feelings of where I am in this world and the questions that I am asking myself, I started to explore them through the story 'Four Feathers' and through this actor called Heath Ledger. I knew that I had to find a 21-year-old who could play wisd...
Virtues are acquired through endeavor, which rests wholly upon yourself.
If you want to be found stand where the seeker seeks.
I do think that the standard media is controlled by the conventional wisdom about global warming. We've come to believe - from reading a lot of articles and talking to a lot of scientists - that there's another side to be heard.
This ceremony and the intellectual aura associated with the Nobel Prizes have grown from the wisdom of a practical chemist who wrote a remarkable will.
I don't turn to greeting cards for wisdom and advice, but they are a fine reflection of the general drift of the culture.
Quick decisions are unsafe decisions.
Much wisdom often goes with fewest words.
If you were to offer a thirsty man all wisdom, you would not please him more than if you gave him a drink.
A short saying often contains much wisdom.
Sometimes it might seem like I'm using my songs to give other people pointers. But mainly, they're for me, just little notes to myself that I collected, and the wisdom that I've read. I give myself a lot of advice.
As we work to reweave the strands of connection, we can be supported by the wisdom and lovingkindness of others.
Wisdom is not acquired save as the result of investigation.
The more one pleases everybody, the less one pleases profoundly.
Swim upstream. Go the other way. Ignore the conventional wisdom.
I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
In order to have wisdom we must have ignorance.
