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.
Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures.
The weak have remedies, the wise have joys; superior wisdom is superior bliss.
The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.
Silence is true wisdom's best reply.
It's easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.
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.
If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.
Sciences may be learned by rote, but wisdom not.
Memory is not wisdom; idiots can by rote repeat volumes. Yet what is wisdom without memory?
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.
It is better to rust out than wear out.
Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again.
Wisdom sails with wind and time.
What I like about graduation speeches is that they're an opportunity for someone to make sense of their life and to impart that wisdom to someone else. It's like a sanctioned self-help moment.
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.
My own life is wonderful, but if I had to live the life of someone else, I'd gladly choose that of Julia Child or Dr. Seuss: two outrageously original people, each of whom fashioned an idiosyncratic wisdom, passion for life, and sense of humor into an art form that anyone and everyone could savor.
I believe that when an elder dies, a library is burned: vast sums of wisdom and knowledge are lost. Throughout the world libraries are ablaze with scant attention.
Science investigates; religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power; religion gives man wisdom which is control.
Wisdom alone is the science of other sciences.