Danh ngôn thuộc danh mục: wisdom

Life is a travelling to the edge of knowledge, then a leap taken.

He who lives by the crystal ball soon learns to eat ground glass.

Life is the only real counselor; wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue.

Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.

But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.

Perhaps too much of everything is as bad as too little.

Make it your habit not to be critical about small things.

A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool.

As an instrument for practical action, law is responsive to the wisdom of its time, which may be wrong, but it carries forward, sometimes in opposition to this wisdom or passion, a memory of received values.

The weak have remedies, the wise have joys; superior wisdom is superior bliss.

The clouds may drop down titles and estates, and wealth may seek us, but wisdom must be sought.

It is better to rust out than wear out.

The most important lesson of New Labour is this: Every time we made progress we did it by challenging the conventional wisdom.

Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.

I've led a school whose faculty and students examine and discuss and debate every aspect of our law and legal system. And what I've learned most is that no one has a monopoly on truth or wisdom. I've learned that we make progress by listening to each other, across every apparent political or ideological divide.

I believe that we are solely responsible for our choices, and we have to accept the consequences of every deed, word, and thought throughout our lifetime.

The opinion which other people have of you is their problem, not yours.

Ask Elizabeth is a community of voices, it's not me standing on a podium telling people how to run their lives, it's girls helping each other sharing their wisdom and advice and I create a space for them to do it.

Blessed are those who give without remembering and take without forgetting.

Sometimes one likes foolish people for their folly, better than wise people for their wisdom.

Writing is no dying art form in America because most published writers here accept the wisdom and the necessity of encouraging the talent that follows in their footsteps.

Books give not wisdom where none was before. But where some is, there reading makes it more.

We live in a society bloated with data yet starved for wisdom. We're connected 24/7, yet anxiety, fear, depression and loneliness is at an all-time high. We must course-correct.

I believe that when an elder dies, a library is burned: vast sums of wisdom and knowledge are lost. Throughout the world libraries are ablaze with scant attention.

It's better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your life.

It's not the having, it's the getting.

It is always our own self that we find at the end of the journey. The sooner we face that self, the better.

The truest greatness lies in being kind, the truest wisdom in a happy mind.

What happens is not as important as how you react to what happens.

The Divine of the Lord in heaven is love, for the reason that love is receptive of all things of heaven, such as peace, intelligence, wisdom and happiness.

Keep well; that is the half of wisdom and of happiness.

It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.

It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.

Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.

No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool. Writers, alas, have to be fools in public, while the rest of the human race can cover its tracks.

As a parent and a citizen, I'll take a Bill Gates (or Warren Buffett) over Steve Jobs every time. If we must have billionaires, better they should ignore Jobs's example and instead embrace the morality and wisdom of the great industrialist-philanthropist Andrew Carnegie.

Who in their infinite wisdom decreed that Little League uniforms be white? Certainly not a mother.

The wisdom acquired with the passage of time is a useless gift unless you share it.

You must learn day by day, year by year to broaden your horizon. The more things you love, the more you are interested in, the more you enjoy, the more you are indignant about, the more you have left when anything happens.

Cleverness is not wisdom.

Along with success comes a reputation for wisdom.

Some wisdom you must learn from one who's wise.

Leave no stone unturned.

Deliberately seek opportunities for kindness, sympathy, and patience.

He was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the rich.

A monarchy conducted with infinite wisdom and infinite benevolence is the most perfect of all possible governments.

In justice to human society it may perhaps be said of almost all the polities and civil institutions in the world, however imperfect, that they have been founded in and carried on with very considerable wisdom.

The constitutions of Maryland and New York are founded in higher wisdom.

With pride, there are many curses. With humility, there come many blessings.

In the beginning, Adam was instructed to earn the bread by the sweat of his brow - not Eve. Contrary to conventional wisdom, a mother's place is in the home!