wisdom

"People aren't very good listeners, by nature … Part of being a good communicator is recognizing and understanding that and trying to make the complex simple. I try to capture a concept, an idea or a m…"

"The Christian message is not an exhortation — "try hard to be good." Good advice, but there is no saving gospel in that."

"345. He that is not handsome at twenty, nor strong at thirty, nor rich at forty, nor wise at fifty, will never bee handsome, strong, rich, or wise."

"Our No. 1 enemy is ignorance. And I believe that is the No. 1 enemy for everyone — it's not understanding what actually is going on in the world."

"You all know about the leaks controversy on social media. My character is very close to every girl in that video. It also gives a message to every person who circulated, opened, saw and laughed at tho…"

"When I was about eight or nine, I knew I liked boys. But I soon came to the understanding that gay was not as good as straight. That it would be better to be straight and that people didn't like gays …"

"The community has no bribe that will tempt a wise man. You may raise money enough to tunnel a mountain, but you cannot raise money enough to hire a man who is minding his own business. An efficient an…"

"When the wise man opens his mouth, the beauties of his soul present themselves to the view, like the statues in a temple."

"Dikutip dalam Hilarin Felder, Christ and the Critics, vol. 2, h. 216-17"

"The poor must be wisely visited and liberally cared for, so that mendicity shall not be tempted into mendacity, nor want exasperated into crime."

"To the wise man every land is eligible as a place of residence; for the whole world is the country of the worthy soul."

"Nothing doth more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise."

"An extra-terrestrial philosopher, who had watched a single youth up to the age of twenty-one and had never come across any other human being, might conclude that it is the nature of human beings to gr…"

"I always believe that funny is serious and serious is funny. You don’t really need a distinction between them. If I’m doing something on stage and it evokes an emotion, then I might show that emotion,…"

"When you have an enemy it is wise to know his ways. The King knew as much about Grey as any man could know about another."

"Unless there is an obvious reason to do otherwise, most of use passively accept decision problems as they are framed and therefore rarely have an opportunity to discover the extent to which our prefer…"

"One can learn such a lot and enjoy such a lot in seventy years, and three generations is a long, long time to see human follies and acquire human wisdom. Anyone who is wise and has lived long enough t…"

"When governments and other vested interests attack me personally I usually regard it as a vindication, otherwise they would use facts. That's why I believe in the wonderful Claud Cockburn dictum, 'Nev…"

"Aphorisms respect the wisdom of silence by disturbing it, but briefly."

"he House of Lords...had inflicted a deadly mutilation on the Parish Councils Bill, they had placed themselves in sharp conflict with public opinion on great subjects. ... I was at Biarritz when this h…"