Danh ngôn thuộc danh mục: wisdom

It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it.

Because of my upbringing, I believe in things like limited government, fiscal responsibility and personal accountability. I believe in the wisdom of our founders and the sanctity of our Constitution.

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

The Founding Fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents. So they provided jails called schools, equipped with tortures called an education.

For the subtlest folly proceeds from the subtlest wisdom.

It isn't what you do, but how you do it.

It's the little details that are vital. Little things make big things happen.

Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.

Whatever you do in life, surround yourself with smart people who'll argue with you.

I find that to be a fool as to worldly wisdom, and to commit my cause to God, not fearing to offend men, who take offence at the simplicity of truth, is the only way to remain unmoved at the sentiments of others.

It is plain to me that our prelates, in granting indulgences, do commonly blaspheme the wisdom of God.

It's now our responsibility to prove to ourselves, to other nations, and especially to our children and our grandchildren, that politics is full of fun; politics has some wisdom. Politics is freedom.

Look at anyone's bookcase at home, no matter how modest, and you're going to find a book that contains wisdom or ideas or a language that's at least a thousand years old. And the idea that humans have created a mechanism to time travel, to hurl ideas into the future, it sort of bookends. Books are a time machine.

A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants.

Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men; but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass.

This fear of the Lord is indeed the beginning of wisdom. This consciousness of sin is the straight pathway to heaven.

Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again.

Never cut what you can untie.

As you walk in God's divine wisdom, you will surely begin to see a greater measure of victory and good success in your life.

Our experience is composed rather of illusions lost than of wisdom acquired.

The best way to obtain truth and wisdom is not to ask from books, but to go to God in prayer, and obtain divine teaching.

Economists often like startling theorems, results which seem to run counter to conventional wisdom.

And it is no less true, that personal security and private property rest entirely upon the wisdom, the stability, and the integrity of the courts of justice.

To light one candle to God and another to the Devil is the principle of wisdom.

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.

Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe.

The wheel that squeaks the loudest is the one that gets the grease.

Wisdom has never made a bigot, but learning has.

I covered my face because they had taken my wisdom teeth out.

Many sophisticated, intelligent people lack wisdom and common sense.

Money can be taken away from you, by the IRS or by pistol. That's why I always measure riches in terms of wisdom. No one can ever take from you what you know.

Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.

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

My own life is wonderful, but if I had to live the life of someone else, I'd gladly choose that of Julia Child or Dr. Seuss: two outrageously original people, each of whom fashioned an idiosyncratic wisdom, passion for life, and sense of humor into an art form that anyone and everyone could savor.

I have no agenda except to be funny. Neither I or the writers profess to offer any worldly wisdom.

Theology in general seems to me a substitution of human ingenuity for divine wisdom.

Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another.

People spend too much time finding other people to blame, too much energy finding excuses for not being what they are capable of being, and not enough energy putting themselves on the line, growing out of the past, and getting on with their lives.

Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust.

Novels are the Socratic dialogues of our time. Practical wisdom fled from school wisdom into this liberal form.

Combine the extremes, and you will have the true center.

A mistake is simply another way of doing things.

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

Knowledge is marvelous, but wisdom is even better.

Pain is the doorway to wisdom and to truth.

In particular, for younger researchers on whom the future of mankind may depend. We believe that they are working with all the scientific wisdom at their disposal for the preservation of the inheritance of the earth and for the lasting survival of mankind.

There is a trade off - as you grow older you gain wisdom but you lose spontaneity.

Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain.

Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents.

The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.