Wise men make more opportunities than they find.

The experience gathered from books, though often valuable, is but the nature of learning; whereas the experience gained from actual life is one of the nature of wisdom.

Year's end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us.

The problem with Google is you have 360 degrees of omnidirectional information on a linear basis, but the algorithms for irony and ambiguity are not there. And those are the algorithms of wisdom.

I covered my face because they had taken my wisdom teeth out.

Let me warn you, if you start chasing after views, you'll be left without bread and without views.

Conventional wisdom suggests the primary motivator for entrepreneurs is money or wealth creation and, in fact, much of the political debate tends to center around what kind of tax or regulatory policy changes will turn corporate suits into small business adventurers overnight.

Kindness is wisdom.

In the end, the real wisdom of menopause may be in questioning how fun or even sane this chore wheel called modern life actually is.

You know, many people have said that I'm on the edge and I'm maverick for some of the big operations that I've done. I'm not at all. I pray; I ask God to give me wisdom, 'Should I do it?', guidance in terms of how to do it, who to consult with. All those kind of things are incredibly important.

Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.

Where can we find greater structural clarity than in the wooden buildings of old? Where else can we find such unity of material, construction and form? here, the wisdom of whole generations is stored.

None knows the weight of another's burden.

Never accept ultimatums, conventional wisdom, or absolutes.

Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

No one has a monopoly on truth, and science continues to advance. Yesterday's heresies may be tomorrow's conventional wisdom.

We need to hear stories from older women. There's a wealth of wisdom and real resilience there, but they're silenced.

A man begins cutting his wisdom teeth the first time he bites off more than he can chew.

The weak have remedies, the wise have joys; superior wisdom is superior bliss.

We all have within us a deep wisdom, but sometimes we don't know we have it.

Because of my upbringing, I believe in things like limited government, fiscal responsibility and personal accountability. I believe in the wisdom of our founders and the sanctity of our Constitution.

Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.

Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.

It used to be, it is accepted scientific wisdom the Earth is flat, and this heretic named Galileo was branded a denier.

You should never ask a horse or an actor to do something they cannot do. Wisdom will teach you to find out what they can do and then make it easy for them.

The truest greatness lies in being kind, the truest wisdom in a happy mind.

It is while you are patiently toiling at the little tasks of life that the meaning and shape of the great whole of life dawn on you.

What a company's been earning doesn't mean anything. What you have to look at is what people think it's going to earn. If you can see something in two years is going to be entirely different than the conventional wisdom, that's how you make money.

For all my education, accomplishments, and so called 'wisdom'... I can't fathom my own heart.

Combine the extremes, and you will have the true center.

I have sympathy for young people, for their growing pains, but I balk when these growing pains are pushed into the foreground, when you make these young people the only vehicles of life's wisdom.

The gods do not need sacrifices, so what might one do to please them? Acquire wisdom, it seems to me, and do all the good in one's power to those humans who deserve it.

There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.

The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.

The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.

Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?

If I don't have wisdom, I can teach you only ignorance.

Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.

Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in the way in which the man of practical wisdom would determine it.

All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man.

To profit from good advice requires more wisdom than to give it.

Wisdom is oftentimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar.

Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects. The best public measures are therefore seldom adopted from previous wisdom, but forced by the occasion.

We are wiser than we know.

The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work.

Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom.

Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.

The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.

Ignorance and bungling with love are better than wisdom and skill without.

It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.