If men possessed wisdom, which stands in the same relation to the form of man as the sight to the eye, they would not cause any injury to themselves or to others; for the knowledge of truth removes hatred and quarrels, and prevents mutual injuries.
We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.
What I lack in energy, I have in wisdom.
We respect our elders. There is wisdom that comes from experience, and I am not going to stop learning from wise counsel.
He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe.
The higher we are placed, the more humbly we should walk.
The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.
Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.
Rightly defined philosophy is simply the love of wisdom.
Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself.
Around '93, '94, the conventional wisdom about the Internet was that it was a toy for academics and researchers. So it was very, very underestimated for about two years.
It is astonishing what force, purity, and wisdom it requires for a human being to keep clear of falsehoods.
If you set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.
To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it functions best.
I'm not a money manager, but I can tell you what the conventional wisdom is. The younger you are, the more risk you can take on.
Many adult bullies hide behind the idea that bullying happens only among children. They conceive of themselves as adults who know better and are offering their hard-earned wisdom to others. The Internet makes that sort of certainty easier to attain: looking at their screens, adult bullies rarely see the impact of their words and actions.
Every one in the world ought to do the things for which he is specially adapted. It is the part of wisdom to recognize what each one of us is best fitted for, and it is the part of education to perfect and utilize such predispositions. Because education can direct and aid nature but can never transform her.
To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.
Know what's important and what isn't. Have the wisdom to know the right thing to do, the integrity to do it, the character to stand up to those who don't, and the courage to stop those who won't.
I had a bunch of people who kinda looked out for me. You know, gave me the words of wisdom.
My father said there were two kinds of people in the world: givers and takers. The takers may eat better, but the givers sleep better.
The closest thing I have to a manager is my parents, for all their words of wisdom and business experience.
Memory is not wisdom; idiots can by rote repeat volumes. Yet what is wisdom without memory?
Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.
Science investigates; religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power; religion gives man wisdom which is control.
That old law about 'an eye for an eye' leaves everybody blind. The time is always right to do the right thing.
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.
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.
Unhappy is that Grandeur which makes us too great to be good; and that Wit which sets us at a distance from true Wisdom.
Preconceived notions are the locks on the door to wisdom.
As far as feeling freedom in my career now versus five years ago... I think if I feel any more free it's simply because of the experiences that I've had, and the wisdom I've accumulated from that time.
I always want to be a messenger, a person that, you know, that's not afraid to pass on wisdom.
Every silver lining has a cloud.
Central banks don't have divine wisdom. They try to do the best analysis they can and must be prepared to stand or fall by the quality of that analysis.
He who devotes sixteen hours a day to hard study may become at sixty as wise as he thought himself at twenty.
People usually compare the computer to the head of the human being. I would say that hardware is the bone of the head, the skull. The semiconductor is the brain within the head. The software is the wisdom. And data is the knowledge.
Robots have already surpassed human beings in calculation and memory, but I have no doubt that the time will come when they will surpass in wisdom as well.
The wisdom of age: don't stop walking.
If you call failures experiments, you can put them in your resume and claim them as achievements.
At sixty, I know little more about wisdom than I did at thirty, but I know a great deal more about folly.
It is not from reason that justice springs, but goodness is born of wisdom.
We cannot become what we need to be by remaining what we are.
I love wisdom. And you can never be great at anything unless you love it. Not be in love with it, but love the thing, admire the thing. And it seems that if you love the thing, and you don't just want to possess it, it will find you.
You need to have extraordinary wisdom to be the forerunner.
It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.
For all my education, accomplishments, and so called 'wisdom'... I can't fathom my own heart.
Now it is time to turn to an older wisdom that, while respecting material comfort and security as a basic right of all, also recognises that many of the most valuable things in life cannot be measured.
Hurricane Katrina overwhelmed levees and exploded the conventional wisdom about a shared American prosperity, exposing a group of people so poor they didn't have $50 for a bus ticket out of town. If we want to learn something from this disaster, the lesson ought to be: America's poor deserve better than this.
Global security can be formed or threatened by heads of state whose wisdom, folly and obsessions shape global events. But often it is the security practitioners, those rarely in the headlines but whose craft and energy quietly break new ground, who keep us safe or put us in peril.
Bitcoin is a swarm of cyber hornets serving the goddess of wisdom, feeding on the fire of truth, exponentially growing ever smarter, faster, and stronger behind a wall of encrypted energy.