wisdom

"Nothing irritates us so much as to be taken for pillars of order. Nothing so exasperates us as the people who come to us through fear of Communism. Those good people will have to realize, and we shall…"

"Woman's nakedness is wiser than the teachings of the philosophers."

"In making the present attempt to improve on the performance of predecessors, and to produce something which might be accepted as echoing however faintly the sublime rhetoric of the Arabic Koran, I hav…"

"Wisdom is the strength of the weak."

"The very natural tendency to use terms derived from traditional grammar like verb, noun, adjective, passive voice, in describing languages outside of Indo-European is fraught with grave possibilities …"

"In the perspective of previous bear markets, notably those of the 1930s and the 1970s, the prospects look even worse. Economic conditions now are as bad as or worse than what existed then."

"Let no act be done at haphazard, nor otherwise than according to the finished rules that govern its kind."

"The European Union as a whole, but also Germany, needs to recognize that this is our alliance, our common alliance, our transatlantic alliance, that we have to step up our engagement. Because, in the …"

"Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before."

"your wisdom and strength. We are with you and with Iran forever. As long as we remain united we will be able to defeat imperialism, but if we are divided they will push us aside."

"How came the king by a power which the people are afraid to trust, and always obliged to check? Such a power could not be the gift of a wise people, neither can any power, which needs checking, be fro…"

"I have consistently opposed a flag-burning amendment, and voted against its passage. Flag desecration is hateful and worthy of condemnation, and I would support any statory means possible to curtail d…"

"The director, whose name is Pitof, was probably issued with two names at birth and would be wise to use the other one on his next project."

"Those who still eat flesh when they could do otherwise have no claim to be serious moralists."

"I’m basically interested in intervention. The key question for me is: how can you intervene more systemically? Systems approaches make the assumption that things are interconnected. That’s the fundame…"

"I'm glad you finally signed up, Hank. A man's got to keep playing, if he's fit. Keep looking out for yourself. Keep your wind. That's everything. You'll like the National League, Hank. Especially the …"

"Self-pity, a destroyer of perspective."

"President Ho Chi Minh, understanding the extraordinary historical importance and the consequences of the glorious October Revolution, and assimilating Lenin's luminous thought, saw clearly that in Mar…"

"The message of Scripture is that God wants us to connect both with Him and also with each other."

"He's the real thing. Gifted, phenomenally intelligent, and wise. -- Stephen Fry"