3 December 2020 Wilson Mizner The difference between chirping out of turn and a faux pas depends on what kind of a bar you’re in.
3 December 2020 Aristotle Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in the way in which the man of practical wisdom would determine it.
3 December 2020 Deepak Chopra In my definition of consciousness, consciousness is the same thing as life. What wisdom traditions also call spirit.
3 December 2020 James Buchanan To avoid entangling alliances has been a maxim of our policy ever since the days of Washington, and its wisdom no one will attempt to dispute.
3 December 2020 Lord Salisbury If you believe the doctors, nothing is wholesome if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent if you believe the military, nothing is safe.
3 December 2020 Thomas B. Macaulay Few of the many wise apothegms which have been uttered have prevented a single foolish action.
3 December 2020 Esther Williams The wisdom acquired with the passage of time is a useless gift unless you share it.
3 December 2020 John Keats I will give you a definition of a proud man: he is a man who has neither vanity nor wisdom one filled with hatreds cannot be vain, neither can he be wise.
3 December 2020 Evelyn Waugh He was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the rich.
3 December 2020 Confucius When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don’t adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.
3 December 2020 Mikhail Gorbachev Surely, God on high has not refused to give us enough wisdom to find ways to bring us an improvement in relations between the two great nations on earth.
3 December 2020 Arthur Cohn I chose Sony Classics, not just because of their practical experience, not just because of their wisdom in marketing, but mainly because of their integrity.
3 December 2020 Marcus Tullius Cicero Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.
3 December 2020 Thandie Newton I see a wiser person than when I was younger: having babies, and passing 30, were the turning points. What women in their 40s – I am 39 – lack in gorgeousness, they make up for in wisdom. I love ageing, despite the drawbacks – thinner, drier skin.
3 December 2020 Wilfrid Sheed One reason the human race has such a low opinion of itself is that it gets so much of its wisdom from writers.
3 December 2020 Katherine Heigl My mother is a great source of advice and wisdom and consolation for me.
3 December 2020 William Ralph Inge It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own.
3 December 2020 Orson Pratt If God had sufficient wisdom and power to construct such a beautiful world as this, then we must admit that his wisdom and power are immeasurably greater than that of man, and hence he is qualified to reign as king.
3 December 2020 Henry Ward Beecher We should not judge people by their peak of excellence but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.
3 December 2020 Richard V. Allen This land, which we have watered with our tears and our blood, is now our mother country, and we are well satisfied to stay where wisdom abounds and gospel is free.
3 December 2020 Paul Greengrass Remembering is painful, it’s difficult, but it can be inspiring and it can give wisdom.
