After all my possessions had been burned God gave me the wisdom to return to Jerusalem.
Any successful nominee should possess both the temperament to interpret the law and the wisdom to do so fairly. The next Supreme Court Justice should have a record of protecting individual rights and a strong willingness to put aside any political agenda.
The thing that we possess that machines don't is the ability to exhibit wisdom.
Wisdom and understanding can only become the possession of individual men by travelling the old road of observation attention perseverance and industry.
Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack. We give it orders which make no sense.
Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess and yet all the honesty in the world ain't lawful tender for a loaf of bread.
In a world of inhumanity war and terrorism American citizenship is a very precious possession.
Britain which in the years immediately before this war was rapidly losing such democratic virtues as it possessed is now being bombed and burned into democracy.
God help us from those who believe that they are the sole possessors of truth. How we manage at times to agree willingly to become prisoners within our own minds and souls of beliefs and ideas on which we can never be flexible.
Many speak the truth when they say that they despise riches but they mean the riches possessed by others.
Force is as pitiless to the man who possesses it or thinks he does as it is to its victims the second it crushes the first it intoxicates. The truth is nobody really possesses it.
When we believe ourselves in possession of the only truth we are likely to be indifferent to common everyday truths.
It is one thing to show a man that he is in an error and another to put him in possession of the truth.
For a creative writer possession of the 'truth' is less important than emotional sincerity.
We believe that what we possess we don't ultimately own. God is merely entrusting it to us. And one of the conditions of that trust is that we share what we have with those who have less. So if you don't give to people in need you can hardly call yourself a Jew. Even the most unbelieving Jew knows that.
The Constitution preserves the advantage of being armed which Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation where the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.
I fly economy. I do often fly first class but I don't travel with a posse or bodyguard or an assistant.