Grief can be the garden of compassion. If you keep your heart open through everything, your pain can become your greatest ally in your life's search for love and wisdom.
Enraging liberals is simply one of the more enjoyable side effects of my wisdom.
I reject most conventional wisdom.
Surely wisdom will come as we listen to learn from children, parents, partners, neighbors, Church leaders, and the Lord.
Our bodies are at once the receiving and transmitting stations for life itself. It is the highest wisdom to recognize this fact and train our bodies to render them sensitive and responsive to nature. art and religion.
Whenever you argue with another wiser than yourself in order that others may admire your wisdom, they will discover your ignorance.
Our wisdom comes from our experience, and our experience comes from our foolishness.
The divine wisdom which requires a division of labor has sown different abilities and tendencies in human nature and has enabled human beings to carry out the duty of establishing sciences and developing technology. The fulfillment of this duty is obligatory upon humanity as a whole, though not on every individual.
Patience is the companion of wisdom.
Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.
A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.
Christian, learn from Christ how you ought to love Christ. Learn a love that is tender, wise, strong; love with tenderness, not passion, wisdom, not foolishness, and strength, lest you become weary and turn away from the love of the Lord.
All things must come to the soul from its roots, from where it is planted.
I always told, Sandra Bullock was my student when she was younger, I always told her it's important that we hold on to our insecurity, the wisdom of insecurity.
You always have two choices: your commitment versus your fear.
To keep your secret is wisdom; but to expect others to keep it is folly.
Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
Practical wisdom is only to be learned in the school of experience. Precepts and instruction are useful so far as they go, but, without the discipline of real life, they remain of the nature of theory only.
The experience gathered from books, though often valuable, is but the nature of learning; whereas the experience gained from actual life is one of the nature of wisdom.
Wisdom and understanding can only become the possession of individual men by travelling the old road of observation, attention, perseverance, and industry.
We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success. We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.
Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
Nothing can be better calculated to advance our interests and character than the establishment of a liberal and disinterested policy, enlightened by patriotism and guided by wisdom.
The perceived wisdom is that people do not go in large numbers to black-and-white movies anymore - which is a great shame, but I'd love to make a black-and-white movie one day.
Swim upstream. Go the other way. Ignore the conventional wisdom.
When I can look life in the eyes, grown calm and very coldly wise, life will have given me the truth, and taken in exchange - my youth.
Wisdom is not acquired save as the result of investigation.
There is a universal, intelligent, life force that exists within everyone and everything. It resides within each one of us as a deep wisdom, an inner knowing. We can access this wonderful source of knowledge and wisdom through our intuition, an inner sense that tells us what feels right and true for us at any given moment.
As we work to reweave the strands of connection, we can be supported by the wisdom and lovingkindness of others.
The more I draw and write, the more I realise that accidents are a necessary part of any creative act, much more so than logic or wisdom. Sometimes a mistake is the only way of arriving at an original concept, and the history of successful inventions is full of mishaps, serendipity and unintended results.
I have devoted my life to uncertainty. Certainty is the death of wisdom, thought, creativity.
The beauty of age is we grow, we learn. We have more wisdom. And as much as the youth-glorifying Hollywood would like us to believe, it's nothing. They're wrong.
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.
What is man's ultimate direction in life? It is to look for love, truth, virtue, and beauty.
After all my possessions had been burned, God gave me the wisdom to return to Jerusalem.
Wisdom is a kind of knowledge. It is knowledge of the nature, career, and consequences of human values.
Virtues are acquired through endeavor, which rests wholly upon yourself.
If you want to be found stand where the seeker seeks.
Be happy. It's one way of being wise.
Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.
True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.
True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.
The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.
Rich people without wisdom and learning are but sheep with golden fleeces.
The best wisdom is earned through experience, particularly mistakes.
Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way.