wisdom

"3031. It is Wit to pick a Lock, and steal a Horse ; but it is Wisdom to let it alone."

"Being a philosopher is to think, seek wisdom and have principles that guide and influence what you do. It's to give meaning to things, find your way in the world, believe that in the end, in every ins…"

"I suppose the pursuit of fashion has always carried a price, monetary or otherwise."

"From a very early stage the ideological history of the bourgeoisie was nothing but a desperate resistance to every insight into the true nature of the society it had created."

"Few subsequent gurus seem to have matched the simplicity and directness of Jesus′s message; but it must be remembered that we have very little information. If the world had possessed a detailed biogra…"

"You need diplomacy and not slogans. This is the place for wisdom, the place for seeking windows that will take you to the objective."

"I find that to be a fool as to worldly wisdom, and to commit my cause to God, not fearing to offend men, who take offence at the simplicity of truth, is the only way to remain unmoved at the sentiment…"

"If you want to give a message again to the West, it must be a message of 'Love', it must be a message of 'Truth'. There must be a conquest — — please, please, please. That will interfere with my speec…"

"Legislation can neither be wise nor just which seeks the welfare of a single interest at the expense and to the injury of many and varied interests at least equally important and equally deserving the…"

"Even the managers. It was all a feudal style of management. If we had accepted that style, we would not have grown. It was simply not a scalable model. Of course, the easiest thing would have been to …"

"At one point we got some German sausages for dinner, and my girl Anna was working the communal tomato sauce pump and she whacked it and it all squirted over my pants, and suddenly there was silence, a…"

"It's harder to give away a dollar wisely than it is to earn it."

"Our age has robbed millions of the simplicity of ignorance, and has so far failed to lift them to the simplicity of wisdom."

"A discipline, a region of the world of thought, should seek to know itself. Like an individual human being, it has received from its origins a stamp of character, a native mode of response to the situ…"

"A green economy begins to replace some of the clunking and chugging of ugly machines with the wise effort of beautiful, skilled people. That means more jobs."

"Nonbeing must in some sense be, otherwise what is it that there is not? This tangled doctrine might be nicknamed Plato's beard; historically it has proved tough, frequently dulling the edge of Occam's…"

"Unpredictability is in general a fine protective feature, which should never be squandered but always spent wisely. There is much to be gained from communication if it is craftily doled out — enough t…"

"Be aware of the high notes, of the blissful faces and their soft messages, and listen for the silent message of a highly decorated gift."

"You need to understand that Islam is the problem. I am sick and tired of people here in the West asking me to soften my message. I am sick and tired of people asking me, "Are you trying to change 1.3 …"

"The question is, whether, like the Divine Child in the Temple, we are turning knowledge into wisdom, and whether, understanding more of the mysteries of life, we are feeling more of its sacred law; an…"