A few years ago you couldn't go from TV to film. It was like a 'no no' but I believe when you find a plan and purpose that God has for your life, there's not anything man can do to you. Especially when your faith is not really standing in the wisdom of man, you're really standing in the wisdom of God.

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

A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers.

A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.

A great memory is never made synonymous with wisdom, any more than a dictionary would be called a treatise.

A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune.

A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.

A loving heart is the truest wisdom.

A man begins cutting his wisdom teeth the first time he bites off more than he can chew.

A man may learn wisdom even from a foe.

A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them.

A man of strength and wisdom, John Paul became an inspiration to generations of both Catholics and non-Catholics throughout the world by encouraging freedom, promoting peace and respecting all faiths.

A mistake is simply another way of doing things.

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

A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.

A proverb is the wisdom of many and the wit of one.

A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.

A short saying often contains much wisdom.

A wholesome oblivion of one's neighbours is the beginning of wisdom.

A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation.

Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.

After 25-plus years as a lawyer, prosecutor, and defense attorney, I have developed a deep appreciation for both the wisdom of the law and the role that jurists play in framing the rights and responsibilities that define our society.

After a gig I always head back to the hotel, remembering granny's words of wisdom. I cancel the late-night pizza and watch the Jonathan Ross show instead.

After all my possessions had been burned, God gave me the wisdom to return to Jerusalem.

After the knowledge of, and obedience to, the will of God, the next aim must be to know something of His attributes of wisdom, power, and goodness as evidenced by His handiwork.

Age does not bring you wisdom, age brings you wrinkles.

Age is a terrible avenger. The lessons of life give you so much to work with, but by the time you've got all this great wisdom, you don't get to be young anymore.

All free governments are managed by the combined wisdom and folly of the people.

All human wisdom is summed up in two words wait and hope.

All human wisdom works and has worries and grief as reward.

All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man.

Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.

Along with success comes a reputation for wisdom.

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.

Always keep an open mind and a compassionate heart.

Always keep your mind as bright and clear as the vast sky, the great ocean, and the highest peak, empty of all thoughts. Always keep your body filled with light and heat. Fill yourself with the power of wisdom and enlightenment.

Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity.

Analysts may be correct that the presidential election won't primarily turn on entitlements reform, but by choosing Paul Ryan as his running mate, Mitt Romney can, contrary to conventional wisdom, make it a winning issue and lay the foundation for a reform mandate when he wins.

And I love that even in the toughest moments, when we're all sweating it - when we're worried that the bill won't pass, and it seems like all is lost - Barack never lets himself get distracted by the chatter and the noise. Just like his grandmother, he just keeps getting up and moving forward... with patience and wisdom, and courage and grace.

And I pray thee, loving Jesus, that as Thou hast graciously given me to drink in with delight the words of Thy knowledge, so Thou wouldst mercifully grant me to attain one day to Thee, the fountain of all wisdom and to appear forever before Thy face.

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.

And when the world is created, it is created in such a way that those eternal objects of God's loving wisdom become actualities - interacting with one another, relating to God in the finite realm.

And, if we have any evidence that the wisdom which formed the plan is in the man, we have the very same evidence, that the power which executed it is in him also.

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.

Any successful nominee should possess both the temperament to interpret the law and the wisdom to do so fairly. The next Supreme Court Justice should have a record of protecting individual rights and a strong willingness to put aside any political agenda.

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.

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.

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.

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.

As great as Ed is, the wisdom out here is that he can't carry a movie. They'll pay him $3 million to be the second banana in Julia Roberts things. But they won't put up $3 million for an Ed Harris movie.

As I visited the various neighborhoods in the campaign, I learned fast that it's a mistake to think that all of the wisdom and possible solutions to our problems are available only in this building.

As you walk down the fairway of life you must smell the roses, for you only get to play one round.

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.

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.

At sixty, I know little more about wisdom than I did at thirty, but I know a great deal more about folly.

Authority without wisdom is like a heavy ax without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish.

Back of every mistaken venture and defeat is the laughter of wisdom, if you listen.

Be happy. It's one way of being wise.

Be there a will, and wisdom finds a way.

Beauty, the eternal Spouse of the Wisdom of God and Angel of his Presence thru' all creation.

Because in the school of the Spirit man learns wisdom through humility, knowledge by forgetting, how to speak by silence, how to live by dying.

Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.

Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.

Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own.

Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone.

Beware of false knowledge it is more dangerous than ignorance.

Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought - asleep. When we are weary of the living, we may repair to the dead, who have nothing of peevishness, pride, or design in their conversation.

Books are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom.

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

Books should to one of these fours ends conduce, for wisdom, piety, delight, or use.

Both in thought and in feeling, even though time be real, to realise the unimportance of time is the gate of wisdom.

But I do think it's important to remember that writers do not have a monopoly of wisdom on their books. They can be wrong about their own books, they can often learn about their own books.

But in its final creation it was not the part of the Father's power to fail as though exhausted. It was not the part of His wisdom to waver in a needful matter through poverty of counsel.

But the law of God came from heaven indeed. God wrote it with his finger, it is the fountain of all wisdom, and therefore shall it continue for ever, and never have an end.

But the Wisdom of God, which is His only-begotten Son, being in all respects incapable of change or alteration, and every good quality in Him being essential, and such as cannot be changed and converted, His glory is therefore declared to be pure and sincere.

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.

By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest Second, by imitation, which is easiest and third by experience, which is the bitterest.

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.

Children also have artistic ability, and there is wisdom in there having it! The more helpless they are, the more instructive are the examples they furnish us and they must be preserved free of corruption from an early age.

Cleverness is not wisdom.

Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.

Clinton is a big personality who has led a big life, and for some of the media conventional wisdom to boil it down to a view that 'all people are really interested in' are a few moments of madness in the Oval Office gets him, the importance of the presidency, and the significance of his life, all wrong.

Come, come, leave business to idlers, and wisdom to fools: they have need of 'em: wit be my faculty, and pleasure my occupation, and let father Time shake his glass.

Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.

Community organizing is all about building grassroots support. It's about identifying the people around you with whom you can create a common, passionate cause. And it's about ignoring the conventional wisdom of company politics and instead playing the game by very different rules.

Contemplation and wisdom are highest achievements and man is not totally at home with them.

Conventional wisdom holds that setting a timetable for getting American troops out of Iraq would be a mistake.

Conventional wisdom notwithstanding, there is no reason either in football or in poetry why the two should not meet in a man's life if he has the weight and cares about the words.

Conventional wisdom on government's role in inequality often has it backwards. Tax reforms have resulted in a more progressive federal income tax government transfer payments have become less progressive.

Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom.

Courage is always the surest wisdom.

Cunning... is but the low mimic of wisdom.

Data is not information, information is not knowledge, knowledge is not understanding, understanding is not wisdom.

Deliberately seek opportunities for kindness, sympathy, and patience.

Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.

Discipline is wisdom and vice versa.

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?

Don't follow any advice, no matter how good, until you feel as deeply in your spirit as you think in your mind that the counsel is wise.

Don't taunt the alligator until after you've crossed the creek.

Doubt is the vestibule through which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom.

Doubt the conventional wisdom unless you can verify it with reason and experiment.

Dr. Johnson has said that the chief glory of a country arises from its authors. But then that is only as they are oracles of wisdom unless they teach virtue, they are more worthy of a halter than of the laurel.

During the long process of history, by relying on our own diligence, courage and wisdom, Chinese people have opened up a good and beautiful home where all ethnic groups live in harmony and fostered an excellent culture that never fades.

Earthly wisdom is doing what comes naturally. Godly wisdom is doing what the Holy Spirit compels us to do.

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

Education makes us more stupid than the brutes. A thousand voices call to us on every hand, but our ears are stopped with wisdom.

Enraging liberals is simply one of the more enjoyable side effects of my wisdom.

Even by common wisdom, there seem to be both people and objects in my dream that are outside myself, but clearly they were created in myself and are part of me, they are mental constructs in my own brain.

Even when you have doubts, take that step. Take chances. Mistakes are never a failure - they can be turned into wisdom.

Even wisdom has to yield to self-interest.

Every day, every birthday candle I blow out, every penny I throw over my shoulder in a wishing well, every time my daughter says, 'Let's make a wish on a star,' there's one thing I wish for: wisdom.

Every indication of wisdom, taken from the effect, is equally an indication of power to execute what wisdom planned.

Every journey that is successful has culs-de-sac and speed bumps. I carry a wisdom gene through my life through the good, the bad, and the ugly.

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

Every nation whose affairs betray a want of wisdom and stability may calculate on every loss which can be sustained from the more systematic policy of its wiser neighbors.

Every silver lining has a cloud.

Every speaker has a mouth An arrangement rather neat. Sometimes it's filled with wisdom. Sometimes it's filled with feet.

Evil can be a teacher, if you look at the wisdom of its negative power.

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.

Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.

Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained.

Experience is not what happens to you it's what you do with what happens to you.

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

Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Few of the many wise apothegms which have been uttered have prevented a single foolish action.

Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that deceives them.

Focus on the mind and the soul. Read. Study. Enrol in a course of lectures. Pray. Become a member of a religious congregation. Study the Bible or other ancient works of wisdom.

Follow the wisdom of the great actor, James Cagney, you hit your mark, you look the other guy in the eye, and you tell the truth.

Follow your instincts. That's where true wisdom manifests itself.

For all my education, accomplishments, and so called 'wisdom'... I can't fathom my own heart.

For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.

For the subtlest folly proceeds from the subtlest wisdom.

From the errors of others, a wise man corrects his own.

Full of wisdom are the ordinations of fate.

Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun.

Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.

God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

God in His wisdom has decided that He will reward no works but His own.

God the Father, the supreme Architect, had already built this cosmic home we behold, the most sacred temple of His godhead, by the laws of His mysterious wisdom.

God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other.

Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it.

Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. People have the right to expect that these wants will be provided for by this wisdom.

Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.

Great wisdom is generous petty wisdom is contentious.

Great wisdom is generous petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech cantankerous.

Has fortune dealt you some bad cards. Then let wisdom make you a good gamester.

Hatred is corrosive of a person's wisdom and conscience the mentality of enmity can poison a nation's spirit, instigate brutal life and death struggles, destroy a society's tolerance and humanity, and block a nation's progress to freedom and democracy.

He dares to be a fool, and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.

He read his mind. He's a strange sort of man, isn't he? It's not just the advice and the wisdom that he has.

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

He who devotes sixteen hours a day to hard study may become at sixty as wise as he thought himself at twenty.

He who is taught to live upon little owes more to his father's wisdom than he who has a great deal left him does to his father's care.

He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.

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

He whose wisdom cannot help him, gets no good from being wise.

History is filled with tragic examples of wars that result from diplomatic impasse. Whether in our local communities or in international relations, the skillful use of our communicative capacities to negotiate and resolve differences is the first evidence of human wisdom.

Honesty is the best policy.

Honesty is the first chapter in the book 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.

However glorious an action in itself, it ought not to pass for great if it be not the effect of wisdom and intention.

However great an evil immorality may be, we must not forget that it is not without its beneficial consequences. It is only through extremes that men can arrive at the middle path of wisdom and virtue.

However, I must not indulge in homespun wisdom here before so distinguished an assembly, especially as I am to be followed by a representative of science.

Humility is the only true wisdom by which we prepare our minds for all the possible changes of life.

I acknowledge the privilege of being alive in a human body at this moment, endowed with senses, memories, emotions, thoughts, and the space of mind in its wisdom aspect.

I actually don't think that I'm that much smarter than anybody else. It's just that I frequently just seem to know what to do, and I think that's wisdom.

I actually think with age comes some level of wisdom.

I always prayed that God would give me the wisdom and the vision to do the things on this earth that I was supposed to do to express His life and love and His will.

I always see where I didn't do things the right way. I only see the heavy lifting. That's a bit of my wisdom, if you want to call it that.

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.

I am a poor student sitting at the feet of giants, yearning for their wisdom and begging for lessons that might one day make me a complete artist, so that if all goes well, I may one day sit beside them.

I am not one who was born in the custody of wisdom I am one who is fond of olden times and intense in quest of the sacred knowing of the ancients.

I am thinking of taking a fifth wife. Why not? Solomon had a thousand wives and he is a synonym for wisdom.

I believe we have become paralyzed, paralyzed by our desire to be loved. Now our founding fathers had the wisdom to know that social acceptance and popularity were fleeing, and that this country's principles needed to be rooted in strengths greater than the passions and the emotions of the times.

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.

I continue to believe, contrary to the given wisdom, that it's more interesting to have an album - or, indeed, an individual song - which has variety rather than homogeneity.

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

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.

I didn't get where I am today by worryin' about how I'd feel tomorrow.

I do interviews because it's a chance to be myself. I sometimes wonder what I could have to say that would be of any interest. I don't have any great wisdom.

I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

I don't think I really have any wisdom. Stay out of trouble. Good luck. Stay away from women because they will burn you, haha.

I don't think you can come into your wisdom until you have made mistakes on your own skin and felt them in reality of your own life.

I don't turn to greeting cards for wisdom and advice, but they are a fine reflection of the general drift of the culture.

I don't want to put a pause on the rest of my life I'm really enjoying getting older and the wisdom that comes from that.

I feel increasingly like age is very irrelevant. Quite often, cynicism is confused with wisdom, and my scorn is confused with a knowing, which I don't have.

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.

I find the fact that billionaires are quoted as if the fact that they are billionaires gives them some kind of wisdom is outrageous.

I gave my beauty and my youth to men. I am going to give my wisdom and experience to animals.

I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.

I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge.

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

I have no wisdom to share on dating.

I have studied many philosophers and many cats. The wisdom of cats is infinitely superior.

I have sympathy for young people, for their growing pains, but I balk when these growing pains are pushed into the foreground, when you make these young people the only vehicles of life's wisdom.

I have the responsibility of over four million people, and I am in a position to do good, to be able to bring about a new life for my people, and I will continue to move in that direction. It's a burden, but it needs to be done, and you have to have the courage and wisdom to see it through.

I have tried at every point to seek God's wisdom on the decisions I made, and I made it my business to speak up on behalf of the things God tells us are important to Him.

I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.

I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship.

I learned some valuable lessons about the legislative process, the importance of bipartisan cooperation and the wisdom of taking small steps to get a big job done.

I left school at 16 but I wish I'd gone to university - I think I would have studied English literature. I had a knack for that. But I don't think you have the kind of wisdom at 16 to make that decision.

I look forward to a great future for America - a future in which our country will match its military strength with our moral restraint, its wealth with our wisdom, its power with our purpose.

I love being. There's so much wisdom in it. You wake up in the morning and you think, Hey, isn't it great just being?

I love the music of Lauryn Hill and Erykah Badu and more recently the music of Laura Marling. All these women share a strength and a wisdom in their voices and music that really makes me want to make music and sing.

I prefer the folly of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.

I probably wouldn't be a songwriter if I didn't grow up the way I did. It was difficult and it was at times very scary to grow up in a household so unsettled and at times very violent. But, it also, I guess it earned me a sort of wisdom at a young age that's served me well.

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.

I sought my father in the world of the black musician, because it contained wisdom, experience, sadness and loneliness. I was not ever interested in the music of boys. From my youngest years, I was interested in the music of men.

I think in conventional magazine wisdom, you need to have a redesign every decade or so.

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.

I'd rather regret the things I've done than regret the things I haven't done.

I'll come to you with gifts of knowledge, wisdom and truth.

I'm married. My wife, Stella - a beautiful woman. She's brought a lot of peace to my life, a lot of wisdom.

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.

I'm not wise, but the beginning of wisdom is there it's like relaxing into - and an acceptance of - things.

I'm someone who's done the opposite of whatever the received wisdom is, to keep your career going into your 50s.

I'm very accepting with my age. It's like notches on your belt: experience, wisdom, and a different kind of beauty. There comes a day when you've become comfortable in your skin.

I've always shied away from conventional wisdom, though I know the power of it.

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.

If an idea is indeed sensible, it will eventually become just part of the accepted wisdom.

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.

If I am fool, it is, at least, a doubting one and I envy no one the certainty of his self-approved wisdom.

If I don't have wisdom, I can teach you only ignorance.

If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise.

If the highest things are unknowable, then the highest capacity or virtue of man cannot be theoretical wisdom.

If they can prove that I am wrong by that time, I will give it up to their wisdom, but not after to any one's judgment, till I see the end of another year for the Lord will begin with a new century and I will see what he will do, before I will hearken to any man's judgment.

If to live is to progress, if you are lucky, from foolishness to wisdom, then to write novels is to broadcast the various stages of your foolishness.

If we can return to a government that the Founders, in their wisdom, envisioned for us, we can return to a government that will allow our economy to thrive again, and our people to live in liberty.

If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner.

If we have built on the fragile cornerstones of human wisdom, pride, and conditional love, things may look good for a while, but a weak foundation causes collapse when storms hit.

If you believe the doctors, nothing is wholesome if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent if you believe the military, nothing is safe.

If you call failures experiments, you can put them in your resume and claim them as achievements.

If you have a vaccine or an antidote that people can benefit from, you're not going to want to keep it to yourself. You're going to want to spread that wisdom or whatever to as many people as you can, so everybody can benefit from it.

If you have the guts to keep making mistakes, your wisdom and intelligence leap forward with huge momentum.

If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.

If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.

If you want to be found stand where the seeker seeks.

If you were to offer a thirsty man all wisdom, you would not please him more than if you gave him a drink.

Ignorance and bungling with love are better than wisdom and skill without.

Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago.

Imagination allows us to escape the predictable. It enables us to reply to the common wisdom that we cannot soar by saying, 'Just watch!'

In complete darkness we are all the same, it is only our knowledge and wisdom that separates us, don't let your eyes deceive you.

In complete darkness, it is only knowledge and wisdom that separates us.

In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.

In garden arrangement, as in all other kinds of decorative work, one has not only to acquire a knowledge of what to do, but also to gain some wisdom in perceiving what it is well to let alone.

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.

In life, all good things come hard, but wisdom is the hardest to come by.

In my definition of consciousness, consciousness is the same thing as life. What wisdom traditions also call spirit.

In my own personal life, God plays a great role in the risk, because I pray before I go into the operating room for every case, and I ask him to give me wisdom, to help me to know what to do - and not only for operating, but for everything.

In order to have wisdom we must have ignorance.

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.

In regard of the rich grace and wisdom of his love toward his people for who sees not, but that it is a curse to be unready as these foolish virgins, who were therefore shut out.

In science, as in art, and, as I believe, in every other sphere of human activity, there may be wisdom in a multitude of counsellors, but it is only in one or two of them.

In seeking wisdom thou art wise in imagining that thou hast attained it - thou art a fool.

In societies where mature workers are respected and where their wisdom is respected, everybody benefits. Workers are more engaged and productive. Their health is better. They live longer.

In the frank expression of conflicting opinions lies the greatest promise of wisdom in governmental action.

In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom and unwisdom we have to say, Like People like Government.

In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause.

In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.

In youth and beauty, wisdom is but rare!

India is known for its sobriety and wisdom, balanced and sensible thinking. We need strong institutions and we need good governance in the country.

Instead of looking at life as a narrowing funnel, we can see it ever widening to choose the things we want to do, to take the wisdom we've learned and create something.

Irony is the gaiety of reflection and the joy of wisdom.

It has become part of the accepted wisdom to say that the twentieth century was the century of physics and the twenty-first century will be the century of biology.

It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important.

It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.

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.

It is almost everywhere the case that soon after it is begotten the greater part of human wisdom is laid to rest in repositories.

It is astonishing what force, purity, and wisdom it requires for a human being to keep clear of falsehoods.

It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own.

It is better to risk starving to death then surrender. If you give up on your dreams, what's left?

It is costly wisdom that is bought by experience.

It is essential to employ, trust, and reward those whose perspective, ability, and judgment are radically different from yours. It is also rare, for it requires uncommon humility, tolerance, and wisdom.

It is good even for old men to learn wisdom.

It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.

It is impossible to love and to be wise.

It is much more difficult to measure nonperformance than performance.

It is not from reason that justice springs, but goodness is born of wisdom.

It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.

It is not wisdom but Authority that makes a law.

It is now conventional wisdom that Americans do not care why we went to war in Iraq, that it is enough that the world is better off without Saddam Hussein.

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

It is the neglect of timely repair that makes rebuilding necessary.

It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.

It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.

It is wisdom in prosperity, when all is as thou wouldn't have it, to fear and suspect the worst.

It may almost be a question whether such wisdom as many of us have in our mature years has not come from the dying out of the power of temptation, rather than as the results of thought and resolution.

It may be assumed as an axiom that Providence has never gifted any political party with all of political wisdom or blinded it with all of political folly.

It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.

It seems to me that, in every culture, I come across a chapter headed 'Wisdom.' And then I know exactly what is going to follow: 'Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.'

It takes a great man to give sound advice tactfully, but a greater to accept it graciously.

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

It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.

It's received wisdom that the English are uniquely child-unfriendly.

It's very hard to know what wisdom is.

Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.

Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.

Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.

Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom.

Kindness is wisdom.

Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment.

Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.

Knowledge is a process of piling up facts wisdom lies in their simplification.

Knowledge is going to make you stronger. Knowledge is going to let you control your life. Knowledge is going to give you the wisdom to teach their children. Knowledge is the thing that makes you smile in the face of disaster.

Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.

Knowledge is proud that it knows so much wisdom is humble that it knows no more.

Knowledge is the consequence of time, and multitude of days are fittest to teach wisdom.

Knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows.

Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.

Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.

Knowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom.

Learning how to get in tune with your field of energy and understand how to create your energy, expand that energy, and move that energy through your body. Coming back to your center, and approaching life from that center-to-line place... That to me gave me strength and understanding and hopefully wisdom to solve life's problems and challenges.

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

Lessons of wisdom have the most power over us when they capture the heart through the groundwork of a story, which engages the passions.

Let us be about setting high standards for life, love, creativity, and wisdom. If our expectations in these areas are low, we are not likely to experience wellness. Setting high standards makes every day and every decade worth looking forward to.

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

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

Logic is the beginning of wisdom, not the end.

Lord, bless me with the ability to achieve all that I can, and the wisdom to realize it doesn't all have to be by tomorrow!

Lord, give us the wisdom to utter words that are gentle and tender, for tomorrow we may have to eat them.

Losing faith in your own singularity is the start of wisdom, I suppose also the first announcement of death.

Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.

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

Mainstream media tend to just mouth the conventional wisdom, to see everything through the filter of right and left.

Man is only great when he acts from passion.

Man is wise and constantly in quest of more wisdom but the ultimate wisdom, which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed. There it lies, the simplest fact of the universe and at the same time the one which calls forth faith rather than reason.

Man's wisdom is his best friend folly his worst enemy.

Many people have their reputations as reporters and analysts because they are on television, batting around conventional wisdom. A lot of these people have never reported a story.

Many spiritual teachers - in Buddhism, in Islam - have talked about first-hand experience of the world as an important part of the path to wisdom, to enlightenment.

Memory is not wisdom idiots can by rote repeat volumes. Yet what is wisdom without memory?

Memory is the mother of all wisdom.

Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache.

Men who know themselves are no longer fools. They stand on the threshold of the door of Wisdom.

Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.

Mixing one's wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.

Moderation is the inseparable companion of wisdom, but with it genius has not even a nodding acquaintance.

Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.

More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.

Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them in their mediocrity.

Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.

Much of the wisdom of one age, is the folly of the next.

Much wisdom often goes with fewest words.

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn. They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art.

My aim, then, was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us. Fear is the beginning of wisdom.

My government, you can be assured, will be less focused on personalities. It is about treating people with respect. I think complaining about the community not being able to see the wisdom of our ideas is the wrong approach.

My mom calls me an older soul because, growing up, she taught me stuff real early. Now I spend most of my time chasing wisdom, chasing understanding.

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

My past is my wisdom to use today... my future is my wisdom yet to experience. Be in the present because that is where life resides.

Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.

Never accept ultimatums, conventional wisdom, or absolutes.

Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another.

Never let a fool kiss you, or a kiss fool you.

Never say never, but the thought of electively cutting oneself is beyond my grasp, and I also object to it politically. Denying the lines on our faces makes a comment about age and wisdom I don't care to make.

Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.

Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time.

No man is the wiser for his learning it may administer matter to work in, or objects to work upon but wit and wisdom are born with a man.

No man was ever wise by chance.

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.

No party has a monopoly on wisdom. No democracy works without compromise. But when Governor Romney and his allies in Congress tell us we can somehow lower our deficit by spending trillions more on new tax breaks for the wealthy - well, you do the math. I refuse to go along with that. And as long as I'm President, I never will.

Nobility of spirit has more to do with simplicity than ostentation, wisdom rather than wealth, commitment rather than ambition.

Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself.

Normally street children are shown in terms of the tragedy of their lives - which is true - but there's also another dimension: their wisdom, dignity and enormous capacity for survival.

Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

Not engaging in ignorance is wisdom.

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

Now all the knowledge and wisdom that is in creatures, whether angels or men, is nothing else but a participation of that one eternal, immutable and increased wisdom of God.

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.

Now our founding fathers had the wisdom to know that social acceptance and popularity were fleeing, and that this country's principles needed to be rooted in strengths greater than the passions and the emotions of the times.

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

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.

Of all our possessions, wisdom alone is imortal.

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

Of prosperity mortals can never have enough.

Old myths, old gods, old heroes have never died. They are only sleeping at the bottom of our mind, waiting for our call. We have need for them. They represent the wisdom of our race.

One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know.

One of the most beautiful passages of Rousseau is that in the sixth book of Confessions, where he describes the awakening in him of the literary sense. Of such wisdom, the poetic passion, the desire of beauty, the love of art for its own sake, has most.

One part of wisdom is knowing what you don't need anymore and letting it go.

One reason the human race has such a low opinion of itself is that it gets so much of its wisdom from writers.

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.

Our experience is composed rather of illusions that of wisdom acquired.

Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way.

Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack. We give it orders which make no sense.

Our wisdom comes from our experience, and our experience comes from our foolishness.

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

Pain is the doorway to wisdom and to truth.

Pain makes man think. Thought makes man wise. Wisdom makes life endurable.

Patience is the companion of wisdom.

Peace is a fragile thing. It takes courage to secure it. It takes wisdom to maintain it.

People always blame the girl she should have said no. A monosyllable, but conventional wisdom has always been that boys can't manage it.

People don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're happy.

Perhaps religious conscience upsets the designs of those who feel that the highest wisdom and authority comes from government. But from the beginning, this nation trusted in God, not man. Religious liberty is the first freedom in our Constitution.

Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.

Pessimism is only the name that men of weak nerves give to wisdom.

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.

Preconceived notions are the locks on the door to wisdom.

Public opinion is no more than this: what people think that other people think.

Purity engenders Wisdom, Passion avarice, and Ignorance folly, infatuation and darkness.

Putting is like wisdom - partly a natural gift and partly the accumulation of experience.

Raising children is an incredibly hard and risky business in which no cumulative wisdom is gained: each generation repeats the mistakes the previous one made.

Rarely promise, but, if lawful, constantly perform.

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.

Remembering is painful, it's difficult, but it can be inspiring and it can give wisdom.

Repeat anything often enough and it will start to become you.

Rich people without wisdom and learning are but sheep with golden fleeces.

Rightly defined philosophy is simply the love of wisdom.

Saudi Arabia is a puritanical state that claims a monopoly of wisdom and virtue.

Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.

Science investigates religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power religion gives man wisdom which is control.

Science is always discovering odd scraps of magical wisdom and making a tremendous fuss about its cleverness.

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Sciences may be learned by rote, but wisdom not.

Second, this epic tale allows the audience to actually listen to the Native Americans and receive their wisdom. Spielberg conveys the respect for Native Americans that is normally lacking in Western films.

Self-suggestion makes you master of yourself.

Silence and reserve will give anyone a reputation for wisdom.

Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech.

Silence is a source of great strength.

Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

Silence is true wisdom's best reply.

Singleness of purpose is one of the chief essentials for success in life, no matter what may be one's aim.

So confident am I in the intentions, as well as wisdom, of the government, that I shall always be satisfied that what is not done, either cannot, or ought not to be done.

Some folks are wise and some are otherwise.

Some of the best lessons we ever learn are learned from past mistakes. The error of the past is the wisdom and success of the future.

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

Someday in the distant cyborg future, when our internal and external memories fully merge, we may come to possess infinite knowledge. But that's not the same thing as wisdom.

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

Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life.

Spectacular achievement is always preceded by unspectacular preparation.

Spend time reflecting on your emotional and physical existence and how that applies to the voice. You have to apply that wisdom and experience when you sing - it's what comes through.

Spending two years on my uncle's ranch in Montana as a young man gave me the wisdom and the thrust to do westerns.

Start wide, expand further, and never look back.

Start with God - the first step in learning is bowing down to God only fools thumb their noses at such wisdom and learning.

Strength and wisdom are not opposing values.

Strong characters are brought out by change of situation, and gentle ones by permanence.

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.

Teach you children poetry it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.

That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in another.

The 'wisdom of the crowds' is the most ridiculous statement I've heard in my life. Crowds are dumb.

The all-seeing eye of God beheld our deplorable state infinite pity touched the heart of the Father of mercies and infinite wisdom laid the plan of our recovery.

The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.

The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out.

The arts, quite simply, nourish the soul. They sustain, comfort, inspire. There is nothing like that exquisite moment when you first discover the beauty of connecting with others in celebration of larger ideals and shared wisdom.

The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.

The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.

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.

The best way to predict the future is to invent it.

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

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

The current wisdom now is that if the three networks are covering the news the same way the difference is the anchor people. I think that won't be true in the future.

The day of fortune is like a harvest day, We must be busy when the corn is ripe.

The difference between chirping out of turn and a faux pas depends on what kind of a bar you're in.

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.

The Divine wisdom has given us prayer, not as a means whereby to obtain the good things of earth, but as a means whereby we learn to do without them not as a means whereby we escape evil, but as a means whereby we become strong to meet it.

The doors of wisdom are never shut.

The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.

The enemy of the conventional wisdom is not ideas but the march of events.

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.

The extreme limit of wisdom, that's what the public calls madness.

The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom... in a clarification of life - not necessarily a great clarification, such as sects and cults are founded on, but in a momentary stay against confusion.

The final wisdom of life requires not the annulment of incongruity but the achievement of serenity within and above it.

The first point of wisdom is to discern that which is false the second, to know that which is true.

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.

The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.

The future has already arrived. It's just not evenly distributed yet.

The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds.

The greater the step forward in knowledge, the greater is the one taken backward in search of wisdom.

The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool the truest heroism is to resist the doubt and the profoundest wisdom, to know when it ought to be resisted, and when it be obeyed.

The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge.

The greatest wisdom is to realize one's lack of it.

The hours of folly are measured by the clock but of wisdom, no clock can measure.

The hunger for facile wisdom is the root of all false philosophy.

The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.

The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions.

The key to wisdom is this - constant and frequent questioning, for by doubting we are led to question and by questioning we arrive at the truth.

The left has come to regard common sense - the traditional wisdom and folkways of the community - as an obstacle to progress and enlightenment.

The less you talk, the more you're listened to.

The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.

The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation, the man of manly character and of wisdom.

The marvel of the Bhagavad-Gita is its truly beautiful revelation of life's wisdom which enables philosophy to blossom into religion.

The more I work with the body, keeping my assumptions in a temporary state of reservation, the more I appreciate and sympathize with a given disease. The body no longer appears as a sick or irrational demon, but as a process with its own inner logic and wisdom.

The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.

The more tranquil a man becomes, the greater is his success, his influence, his power for good. Calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom.

The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.

The most excellent and divine counsel, the best and most profitable advertisement of all others, but the least practiced, is to study and learn how to know ourselves. This is the foundation of wisdom and the highway to whatever is good.

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

The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom to serve all, but love only one.

The novelist teaches the reader to comprehend the world as a question. There is wisdom and tolerance in that attitude. In a world built on sacrosanct certainties the novel is dead.

The older I get the more wisdom I find in the ancient rule of taking first things first. A process which often reduces the most complex human problem to a manageable proportion.

The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.

The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all other woes of mankind, is wisdom. Teach a man to read and write, and you have put into his hands the great keys of the wisdom box. But it is quite another thing to open the box.

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

The opportunity for brotherhood presents itself every time you meet a human being.

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.

The pessimist complains about the wind the optimist expects it to change the realist adjusts the sails.

The philosophies of one age have become the absurdities of the next, and the foolishness of yesterday has become the wisdom of tomorrow.

The pine stays green in winter... wisdom in hardship.

The plan was criticized by some retired military officers embedded in TV studios. But with every advance by our coalition forces, the wisdom of that plan becomes more apparent.

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.