Self-suggestion makes you master of yourself.

When you doubt, abstain.

Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.

It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.

We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it.

However glorious an action in itself, it ought not to pass for great if it be not the effect of wisdom and intention.

I'm a member of the 1960s generation. We didn't have any wisdom.

Community organizing is all about building grassroots support. It's about identifying the people around you with whom you can create a common, passionate cause. And it's about ignoring the conventional wisdom of company politics and instead playing the game by very different rules.

I think I got a lot of life skills; I got a lot of wisdom; I've seen a lot of bad things happen to a lot of good people.

Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two. A constant coming and going: wisdom lies in the momentary.

Wisdom begins at the end.

In the frank expression of conflicting opinions lies the greatest promise of wisdom in governmental action.

Nothing can be better calculated to advance our interests and character than the establishment of a liberal and disinterested policy, enlightened by patriotism and guided by wisdom.

Cleverness is not wisdom.

Along with success comes a reputation for wisdom.

The more you meditate on the laws of Moses, the more striking and brighter does their wisdom appear.

Knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows.

Wit and playfulness represent a desperately serious transcendence of evil. Humor is both a form of wisdom and a means of survival.

I didn't get where I am today by worryin' about how I'd feel tomorrow.

I always want to be a messenger, a person that, you know, that's not afraid to pass on wisdom.

One part of wisdom is knowing what you don't need anymore and letting it go.

Whenever you argue with another wiser than yourself in order that others may admire your wisdom, they will discover your ignorance.

Kabbalah is all about change. It isn't about being proud of our good qualities: the wisdom is about transforming our darkness into light.

If you want to go east, don't go west.

A mouse does not rely on just one hole.

The extreme limit of wisdom, that's what the public calls madness.

Rediscovering the wisdom of love and compassion may help us survive at a time when an increasingly balkanized world so badly needs it.

I always felt called to serve, to empower and ennoble as many people as I could, teaching, truth-telling, exposing lies, bearing witness, and being willing to live and die for something bigger than yourself. I had a passion and love of learning and wisdom that was inseparable from a love of music and the arts.

We are shallow because we are 'mayabang,' ego driven, and do not have the humility to understand that we are only human, much too human to mistake knowledge for wisdom.

Every speaker has a mouth; An arrangement rather neat. Sometimes it's filled with wisdom. Sometimes it's filled with feet.

At sixty, I know little more about wisdom than I did at thirty, but I know a great deal more about folly.

We do not sit as a superlegislature to weigh the wisdom of legislation.

In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom and unwisdom; we have to say, Like People like Government.

I think we are evolving rapidly into one world culture. It's certainly one world economy. With billions of people online, I think we'll appreciate the wisdom in many different traditions as we learn more about them. People were very isolated and didn't know anything about other religions 100 years ago.

Practical wisdom is only to be learned in the school of experience. Precepts and instruction are useful so far as they go, but, without the discipline of real life, they remain of the nature of theory only.

Rarely promise, but, if lawful, constantly perform.

He who is taught to live upon little owes more to his father's wisdom than he who has a great deal left him does to his father's care.

Around '93, '94, the conventional wisdom about the Internet was that it was a toy for academics and researchers. So it was very, very underestimated for about two years.

This is perhaps the most profound meaning of the book of Job, the best example of wisdom.

Wisdom finds its literary expression in wisdom literature.

Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another.

The philosophy I love is very selective. It is really just the bit that is involved in a search for wisdom, and this means a short roll call of names; Socrates, Marcus Aurelius, Seneca, Epicurus, Montaigne, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche.

Mothers are supposed to listen and, afterward, to respond with some wisdom and perspective, but these things were not my mother's strong suit.

We should draw deep into Madiba's wisdom. We should draw deep into Madiba's style of doing things in an orderly manner, in a purposeful manner, in a way where we focus.

I had read Harold Bloom's 'Where Shall Wisdom Be Found?' Late in his life, having read everything, Bloom asked which books had given him wisdom. I had just read a bunch of contemporary novels that had no wisdom for me.

There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives.

Come, come, leave business to idlers, and wisdom to fools: they have need of 'em: wit be my faculty, and pleasure my occupation, and let father Time shake his glass.

It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.

I associate wisdom and grace with age.

I have seen life from the top down and the bottom up. I know how it looks both ways. And I know there is wisdom and that there is hope.