wisdom

"I'm older and wiser. Just like fine wine, I get better with time."

"THE PHILOSOPHY OF FASTING - A MESSAGE FOR SUFFERERS AND SINNERS"

"The wisdom and hope that was inherent in McGovern’s call that year was not sufficient to defeat Richard Nixon. In a matter of months, however, polls would reveal that Americans regretted their decisio…"

"There are periods in the history of the world when the unseen Power that guides its destinies seems to be filled with a consuming passion for change and a strong impatience of the old. The Great Mothe…"

"I think people are absolutely dreaming if they think that when the United States pulls out of Europe that Europe will just stay this calm, placid place. I think that we will throw Europe back into the…"

"Insurrection ... never brings about the desired improvement. For insurrection lacks discernment; it generally harms the innocent more than the guilty. Hence, no insurrection is ever right, no matter h…"

"I think putting thieves to death is not lawful; and it is plain and obvious that it is absurd and of ill consequence to the commonwealth that a thief and a murderer should be equally punished; for if …"

"Helvidius has shown himself too ignorant, in saying that Mary had several sons, because mention is made in some passages of the brothers of Christ."

"Substitute wisely, grow steadily and be free."

"Wisdom precludes boldness."

"The matter to be lamented was, that, by the unwise and narrow policy of the volunteers, the legislative independence of Ireland was confined to Protestants only; that, in the whole course of imperial …"

"The relationship between Scotland and the UK and that between the ROC-Taiwan and are totally different. The ROC is an independent country, so the question of announcing independence via referendum is …"

"The hours of folly are measur'd by the clock, but of wisdom no clock can measure."

"Wisdom is not mathematical, nor astronomical, nor zoological; when it talks too much of any one thing it ceases to be itself. There are wise physicists, but wisdom is not physical; there are wise phys…"

"Philosophy is any culture’s pole of maximum abstraction, or intrinsically experimental intelligence, expressing the liberation of cognitive capabilities from immediate practical application, and their…"

"I am very glad that the criticism is what it is. It is all right that way. In complete opposition to our direction. Otherwise we would have nothing to do. I got another impression from your letter, bu…"

"The owl of wisdom flies, as is well known, after sunset. Thus the theory of a "socialist" system of money and prices was developed only after twilight of inflationist illusions."

"Our own culture, of Greek and Hebraic origin, is the one that interests us the most... We do not say that it is the best culture, but simply that it is ours. To claim that it of necessity superior wou…"

"To a wise man, the whole earth is open; for the native land of a good soul is the whole earth."

"I'd take the awe of understanding over the awe of ignorance any day."