It has become part of the accepted wisdom to say that the twentieth century was the century of physics and the twenty-first century will be the century of biology.

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.

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.

Now that I am sixty I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency.

Vanity can easily overtake wisdom. It usually overtakes common sense.

Purity engenders Wisdom Passion avarice and Ignorance folly infatuation and darkness.

Saudi Arabia is a puritanical state that claims a monopoly of wisdom and virtue.

I always see where I didn't do things the right way. I only see the heavy lifting. That's a bit of my wisdom if you want to call it that.

The left has come to regard common sense - the traditional wisdom and folkways of the community - as an obstacle to progress and enlightenment.

The Divine wisdom has given us prayer not as a means whereby to obtain the good things of earth but as a means whereby we learn to do without them not as a means whereby we escape evil but as a means whereby we become strong to meet it.

Wisdom is knowing when you can't be wise.

I'm not wise but the beginning of wisdom is there it's like relaxing into - and an acceptance of - things.

Sometimes one likes foolish people for their folly better than wise people for their wisdom.

Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences.

My mother is a great source of advice and wisdom and consolation for me.

No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool. Writers alas have to be fools in public while the rest of the human race can cover its tracks.

In my own personal life God plays a great role in the risk because I pray before I go into the operating room for every case and I ask him to give me wisdom to help me to know what to do - and not only for operating but for everything.