Authority without wisdom is like a heavy ax without an edge fitter to bruise than polish.
A wholesome oblivion of one's neighbours is the beginning of wisdom.
We learned in World War II that no single nation holds a monopoly on wisdom morality or right to power but that we must fight for the weak and promote democracy.
As great as Ed is the wisdom out here is that he can't carry a movie. They'll pay him $3 million to be the second banana in Julia Roberts things. But they won't put up $3 million for an Ed Harris movie.
The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living which are to be desired when dying.
What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes?
Normally street children are shown in terms of the tragedy of their lives - which is true - but there's also another dimension: their wisdom dignity and enormous capacity for survival.
Wisdom not only gets but once got retains.
Old myths old gods old heroes have never died. They are only sleeping at the bottom of our mind waiting for our call. We have need for them. They represent the wisdom of our race.
Your art kind of changes as you get older by nature of the fact that you're hopefully gaining wisdom and you're starting to watch things with a better overview.
Surely God on high has not refused to give us enough wisdom to find ways to bring us an improvement in relations between the two great nations on earth.
Our experience is composed rather of illusions that of wisdom acquired.
However great an evil immorality may be we must not forget that it is not without its beneficial consequences. It is only through extremes that men can arrive at the middle path of wisdom and virtue.
Books are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom.
Unhappy is that Grandeur which makes us too great to be good and that Wit which sets us at a distance from true Wisdom.
The Relation we bear to the Wisdom of the Father the Son of His Love gives us indeed a dignity which otherwise we have no pretence to. It makes us something something considerable even in God's Eyes.
Although it has been said by men of more wit than wisdom and perhaps more malice than either that women are naturally incapable of acting prudently or that they are necessarily determined to folly I must by no means grant it.