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. 834
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. 759
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. 727
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. 650
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. 653
Novels are the Socratic dialogues of our time. Practical wisdom fled from school wisdom into this liberal form. 667
If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner. 696
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. 675
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.’ 655
The word philosophy sounds high-minded, but it simply means the love of wisdom. If you love something, you don’t just read about it; you hug it, you mess with it, you play with it, you argue with it. 728
