Those who improve with age embrace the power of personal growth and personal achievement and begin to replace youth with wisdom, innocence with understanding, and lack of purpose with self-actualization. 660
However glorious an action in itself, it ought not to pass for great if it be not the effect of wisdom and intention. 715
I am thinking of taking a fifth wife. Why not? Solomon had a thousand wives and he is a synonym for wisdom. 1K
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. 771
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. 688
Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life – in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color. 710
Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young. 993
We must expect reverses, even defeats. They are sent to teach us wisdom and prudence, to call forth greater energies, and to prevent our falling into greater disasters. 608
Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever; no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself; no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself. 687
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. 1.09K
The wisdom of man never yet contrived a system of taxation that would operate with perfect equality. 692
Earthly wisdom is doing what comes naturally. Godly wisdom is doing what the Holy Spirit compels us to do. 650
To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future. 2.29K
We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom. The world henceforth will be run by synthesizers, people able to put together the right information at the right time, think critically about it, and make important choices wisely. 678
We don’t receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us. 675
