wisdom

"Now, the issue of the Civil War as Lincoln presented it, in both his inaugural address on March 4th, and in the message to Congress in Special Session on July 4th, four months later, was in essence th…"

"You have to have some psychological insight, you have to know the people and you must work in a way that’s acceptable to them. There you must smile — never laugh, because that’s considered making fun.…"

"This decision is absolutely contrary to my understanding of what the plan was to be in the event of an invasion."

"We have a side to our character that we are generally unaware of—our social personality, the different person we become when we operate in groups of people. In the group setting, we unconsciously imit…"

"To be overwise is to ossify; and the scruple-monger ends by standing stockstill."

"621. Speake fitly, or be silent wisely."

"You must not judge people by their country. In South America, it is always wise to judge people by their altitude."

"All the great evils which men cause to each other because of certain intentions, desires, opinions, or religious principles, are likewise due to non-existence, because they originate in ignorance, whi…"

"Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding"

"Indeed, if what you do offends me but does not harm me otherwise, there should be a very high bar for prohibiting your act. After all, any ban, and certainly any vigilante acts to enforce it, may offe…"

"Pierre Trudeau was too much of a professional politician to be described as a good man, nor, it can be argued despite much publicity to the contrary, was he a particularly clever or even wise one. But…"

"Since the time of Aristarchus, the great Alexandrian scholar, it has been the rule among philologists not to base the interpretation of Homeric words on references to classical Greek, and not to allow…"

"The way to find out about our place in the universe is by examining the universe and by examining ourselves—without preconceptions, with as unbiased a mind as we can muster. We cannot begin with an en…"

"It is by finding out what something is not that one comes closest to understanding what it is."

"As for principles of law, he should know those which are necessary in the case of buildings having party walls, with regard to water dripping from the eaves, and also the laws about drains, windows, a…"

"A wise psychoanalyst once told me, “Stop looking at what you’re saying, look at what you’re doing."

"His model of an electric eye which records with electric signals message received from outside world, his physical model of memory as a mechanism for storing information justified this being considere…"

"Did he say why most church officials were fighting against it? Yes, because it challenges the completeness of their religion. Apparently the... insights extend some of the church's traditional ideas i…"

"... the geometry over p-adic fields, and more generally over complete local rings, can provide us only with local data; and the main tasks of algebraic geometry have always been understood to be of a …"

"I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone suffers. To suffering must be added mourning, understanding, patience, love, openn…"