wisdom

"4-5-1? Never. It was always 4-3-3 for me as a player and as manager, just like Rijkaard at Barcelona. With 4-3-3, it's much easier to make combinations going forward. With only one forward, who is he …"

"The man who can keep a secret may be wise, but he is not half as wise as the man with no secrets to keep."

"... the noise of the cat stamping about in the passage outside caused him exquisite discomfort."

"Solomon made a great mistake when he asked for wisdom."

"Economists often like startling theorems, results which seem to run counter to conventional wisdom."

"Chant to him the holy song, the incantation sung in its chambers -- the incantation of Nudimmud: "On that day when there is no snake, when there is no scorpion, when there is no hyena, when there is n…"

"If Santa came to the Palace of Wisdom, we'd beat him up with candy canes."

"A chance remark by Ardini, an Italian master carver whom I met there , that 'marble changes colour under different people's hands' made me decide immediately that it was not dominance which one had to…"

"In my message last year I emphasized the necessity for further legislation with a view to expediting the consolidation of our rail ways into larger systems. The principle of Government control of rate…"

"Taking time to color in the people around your main characters truly does a lot of heavy lifting for you in terms of subtext and context because tiny misunderstandings and micro-aggressions or avoidan…"

"If the fool would persist in his folly he would become wise."

"We cannot afford to ignore HIV/AIDS. We can only ignore this battle at the cost of being regarded by future generations of Pacific Islanders as lacking the will, the foresight, the understanding to ta…"

"In fact if one person is unkind to an animal it is considered to be cruelty, but where a lot of people are unkind to a lot of animals, especially in the name of commerce, the cruelty is condoned and, …"

"If the politics of disease are to be understood, particularly in the dreadful countries where this understanding is most needed, then the politics of total collapse have to be understood first."

"All these things were slipping away from him, in a clear, cold wisdom that came from beyond the stars. He envisioned man as a bit of animate clay moving fro a little while upon a ball of mud and stone…"

"Verily God is able to convert light into fire whenever He pleaseth; surely He is potent over all things. And were He to declare a person whom ye regard alien to the truth as being akin thereto, err no…"

"It was part of her discernment to be aware that life is the only real counselor, that wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissues."

"If a Creator God exists, would He or She or It... prefer a kind of sodden blockhead who worships while understanding nothing? Or would He prefer His votaries to admire the real universe in all its int…"

"I have participated in two wars and know that war ends when it has rolled through cities and villages, everywhere sowing death and destruction. For such is the logic of war. If people do not display w…"

"Conventional wisdom, fooled by our misleading "physical intuition", is that the real world is continuous, and that discrete models are necessary evils for approximating the "real" world, due to the in…"