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. 720
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. 730
What if Barack Obama established a Presidential Advisory Committee that would meet once every couple of months, bringing together the former presidents for a conference in order to seek their collective wisdom? There is a wealth of experience in former presidents that generally goes untapped. 2.02K
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. 736
If you have the guts to keep making mistakes, your wisdom and intelligence leap forward with huge momentum. 674
You know, many people have said that I’m on the edge and I’m maverick for some of the big operations that I’ve done. I’m not at all. I pray; I ask God to give me wisdom, ‘Should I do it?’, guidance in terms of how to do it, who to consult with. All those kind of things are incredibly important. 2.45K
Wisdom and understanding can only become the possession of individual men by travelling the old road of observation, attention, perseverance, and industry. 625
I’m not wise, but the beginning of wisdom is there; it’s like relaxing into – and an acceptance of – things. 823
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. 663
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. 694
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. 609
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. 747
The left has come to regard common sense – the traditional wisdom and folkways of the community – as an obstacle to progress and enlightenment. 698
