wisdom

"A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself."

"The issue before us is whether the 21st century belongs to China. And I would say that China will be preoccupied with enormous problems internally, domestically with its immediate environment, and tha…"

"If you are wise, Matson said to himself grimly, you never take one-way trips. Anywhere. Even to Boise, Idaho...even across the street. Be certain, when you start, that you can scramble back."

"The truly good and wise man will bear all kinds of fortune in a seemly way, and will always act in the noblest manner that the circumstances allow."

"First, technical perfection as something natural. Second, an insight into the development of the piano sound, as perfected by the pianist-composers of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, composers…"

"Usage ain't always a matter of ought."

"How lasting the impact of social media will have is yet to be determined, but one thing for sure, it has turned the chain of influence upside down. Today the reader, the lowly reader, that presumably …"

"The inscrutable wisdom through which we exist is not less worthy of veneration in respect to what it denies us than in respect to what it has granted."

"now, in the solemn silence before God with the lilies and the birds, where accordingly there is nobody at all present, where accordingly there is no other intercourse for thee but with God-there indee…"

"In the tradition of Abudhar, who is my mentor, whose thought, whose understanding of Islam and Shi'ism, and whose ideals, wants, and rage I emulate, I begin my talk with the name of the God of the opp…"

"A fence to wisdom is silence."

"Well, that's more-or-less what I was saying, though obviously addition is a little more cosmic than the bitwise operators."

"The power of discretionary disqualification by one law of Parliament, and the necessity of paying every debt of the Civil List by another law of Parliament, if suffered to pass unnoticed, must establi…"

"One tool that is used most and has the greatest misuse of power is looks, and another tool that is used least and has the least desire for power is wisdom."

"Euripides was wont to say, "Silence is an answer to a wise man."

"We do not discover mathematical truths; we remember them from our passages through this world outside our own."

"he instrumental conceptions derived from the use of a common globe are sufficient, in almost every case, for the understanding of the instruments in an Observatory..."

"No person's gain in wisdom is diminished by anyone else's gain."

"The essential functions of the mind consist in understanding and in inventing, in other words, in building up structures by structuring reality."

"My skepticism concerning all notions of reconquista is skepticism toward the view that history is restorative. I get older but I do not grow wiser. It is only by shedding skin, by turning pages, by or…"