wisdom

"In some places colored laborers were compelled to vote according to the wishes of their employers, under threats of discharge if they acted otherwise; and there are too many instances in which, when t…"

"The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool; the truest heroism is to resist the doubt; and the profoundest wisdom to know when it ought …"

"Yo, I heard it's said the revolution won't be televised But in the land of milk and honey there's a date you gotta sell it by Otherwise it just expires and spoils and these folks jump out the pot when…"

"You win some, you lose some. And when you lose, you have to pull yourself together and go back for more. Otherwise, the other side wins by default."

"Above all things, good policy is to be used, that the treasure and moneys, in a state, be not gathered into few hands. For otherwise a state may have a great stock, and yet starve. And money is like m…"

"I remember I felt an extraordinary persuasion that I was being played with, that presently, when I was upon the very verge of safety, this mysterious death--as swift as the passage of light--would lea…"

"The 1930s — a Golden Age for American humor, mainly because everything else was going so badly. The wisecrack was the basic American sentence because there were so many things that could not be said a…"

"Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency."

"A Prince who will not undergo the Difficulty of Understanding, must undergo the Danger of Trusting."

"Experience taught me that it is wise to be patient and forbearing with opponents and to use the divine cure of repeling with what is best as though he was a close friend.) Quran 41:34"

"I am surprised that the trouble has been contained to the degree it has. Until two years ago, New York City used wiser methods than any other city to deal with racial problems. Now it is a case of out…"

"A wise skepticism is the first attribute of a good critic."

"Being smarter may help the understanding not only of one’s self-interest, but also how the lives of others can be strongly affected by one’s own actions."

"That unwise body, the United Irishmen, have had the folly to represent those Evils as owing to this Country, when in truth its chief guilt is in its total neglect, its utter oblivion, its shameful ind…"

"What is perceived is dictated by the instrument. If you had other eyes, or another mind, you would see all things otherwise."

"What I would like to see is a greater degree of interaction that will lead to a much better cross-cultural understanding than what we have in Fiji today."

"How the hell do I know what I find incredible? Credibility is an expanding field... Sheer disbelief hardly registers on the face before the head is nodding with all the wisdom of instant hindsight."

"When you know that the snake is in you – that's wisdom."

"Members of Congress routinely vote on tax bills that they have never read, much less understood even on a superficial level. Sanford J. Schlesinger... says that "there hasn't been a member of Congress…"

"For to err in opinion, though it be not the part of wise men, is at least human."