wisdom

"I ask that you immediately cease plans to improperly install Michael Ellis as the new NSA General Counsel"

"The Republican Party can never again be respected or strong with political “leaders” like Sen. Mitch McConnell at its helm. McConnell’s dedication to business as usual, status quo policies, together w…"

"Science offers no alternative framework. The best it can offer is wealth in a wide sense of the term, that is to say, the satisfaction of a wide variety of desires. It cannot conceive of any means of …"

"If mankind had always been logical and wise, history would not be a long chronicle of folly and crime."

"We should actively campaign for a public understanding of the benefits of the union, economic and strategic, for the people and its component nations,"

"No one is ignorant that there are two avenues by which opinions are received into the soul, which are its two principal powers: the understanding and the will."

"“Advice,” chuckled Doña Vorchenza. “The years play a sort of alchemical trick, transmuting one’s mutterings to a state of respectability. Give advice at forty and you’re a nag. Give it at seventy and …"

"Understanding is not such that we either enjoy it or lack it altogether. To be human and to be aware is to encounter only what is in some manner understood. Thus, it may be said that understanding is …"

"The pedant interprets the simplicity and the humility of the wise man as ignorance."

"The problem of distinguishing prime numbers from composite numbers and of resolving the latter into their prime factors is known to be one of the most important and useful in arithmetic. It has engage…"

"To seek wisdom rather than truth. It is more within our grasp."

"Doctrines, scriptures, sutras, essays, are not to be regarded as systems to be followed. They merely contribute to understanding. They should be for us a source of stimulation, and nothing more... Ado…"

"One must try to keep a sensible perspective and not take oneself too seriously."

"I don't have any illusions that I'm naively going to go down and Harry Reid and Mitch McConnell are going to say, "Angus, tell us how to do this." I mean, I know that's not going to work. But I think,…"

"Of course this result will not be reached by any hurried or forced processes. It will not arise out of any theory of the wisdom of such blending of the two races. If it comes at all, it will come with…"

"The peasantry are wiser in their ignorance than the savants of St Petersburg in their learning."

"All men have an equal disposition for understanding."

"I think that if God forgives us we must forgive ourselves. Otherwise it is almost like setting up ourselves as a higher tribunal than Him."

"What could be more beautiful than a dear old lady growing wise with age? Every age can be enchanting, provided you live within it."

"Great deeds and utterances are now so diluted with printer’s ink that we can no longer find a sage or saint. Our worthiest men are exhibited and bewritten until they are made as uninteresting as clown…"