Everything in the world may be endured except continual prosperity.

Wisdom is found only in truth.

I don't think I really have any wisdom. Stay out of trouble. Good luck. Stay away from women because they will burn you, haha.

Rightly defined philosophy is simply the love of wisdom.

Vanity can easily overtake wisdom. It usually overtakes common sense.

When I can look life in the eyes, grown calm and very coldly wise, life will have given me the truth, and taken in exchange - my youth.

I'd love to spend more time on the Isle of Man. I love the anonymity of putting on a boiler suit and going down to buy parts for the compressor. And Norman Wisdom's a neighbour; I salute him occasionally.

What could be more lonely than to be enveloped in silence, to be the last of your people to speak your native tongue, to have no way to pass on the wisdom of the elders, to anticipate the promise of the children. This tragic fate is indeed the plight of someone somewhere roughly every two weeks.

To light one candle to God and another to the Devil is the principle of wisdom.

Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.

If I am fool, it is, at least, a doubting one; and I envy no one the certainty of his self-approved wisdom.

Applause is a receipt, not a bill.

For most of us, wisdom is acquired in the thicket of experience and usually meets us somewhere along the way if we live long enough. But sooner is better than later.

I consider wisdom supernatural because it isn't taught by men - it's a gift from God.

Knowing that you are going to die is, I suspect, the beginning of wisdom.

Pure, holy simplicity confounds all the wisdom of this world and the wisdom of the flesh.

What I've been able to do with my character, Madea, and the other characters, with the jokes, is use it as an anesthetic to get to the heart and soul of real issues. And what I've found on stage over the years is that, while making people laugh, I can drop in pearls of wisdom.

The stupidity of people comes from having an answer for everything. The wisdom of the novel comes from having a question for everything.

God the Father, the supreme Architect, had already built this cosmic home we behold, the most sacred temple of His godhead, by the laws of His mysterious wisdom.

Of prosperity mortals can never have enough.

It is good even for old men to learn wisdom.

I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

There is a trade off - as you grow older you gain wisdom but you lose spontaneity.

Authority is supposedly grounded in wisdom, but I could see from a very early age that authority was only a system of control. And it didn't have any inherent wisdom. I quickly realized that you either became a power or you were crushed.

You need to have extraordinary wisdom to be the forerunner.

Repeat anything often enough and it will start to become you.

If you have a vaccine or an antidote that people can benefit from, you're not going to want to keep it to yourself. You're going to want to spread that wisdom or whatever to as many people as you can, so everybody can benefit from it.

Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone.

In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.

I'm married. My wife, Stella - a beautiful woman. She's brought a lot of peace to my life, a lot of wisdom.

Plodding wins the race.

If you wish to reach the highest, begin at the lowest.

To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it functions best.

Holy wisdom confounds Satan and all his wickednesses.

Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.

We are all responsible to Jesus first, and then, under him, to various other persons and offices. Discerning the path of love and obedience when two or more of these submissive relationships collide is a call to humble, Bible-saturated, spiritual wisdom.

In my definition of consciousness, consciousness is the same thing as life. What wisdom traditions also call spirit.

Every nation whose affairs betray a want of wisdom and stability may calculate on every loss which can be sustained from the more systematic policy of its wiser neighbors.

Wisdom comes by disillusionment.

Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.

Strong characters are brought out by change of situation, and gentle ones by permanence.

To win without risk is to triumph without glory.

Rich people without wisdom and learning are but sheep with golden fleeces.

'Swan,' by Mary Oliver. Poems and prose. Reading from this book is as if visiting a very wise friend. There is wisdom and welcoming kindness on every page.

This, and this alone, is Christianity, a universal holiness in every part of life, a heavenly wisdom in all our actions, not conforming to the spirit and temper of the world but turning all worldly enjoyments into means of piety and devotion to God.

Spiritual teachers and artists that have opened the eye of wisdom for the world, and visionary community builders, have influenced my work.

We all admire the wisdom of people who come to us for advice.

It is plain to me that our prelates, in granting indulgences, do commonly blaspheme the wisdom of God.

Wisdom is a sacred communion.

Whatever one thinks of the wisdom of building a mosque near Ground Zero, this controversy now affords us an immense opportunity to examine who we are as a people. It provides us with the opportunity to get back to our foundational ideals, which have always stood as a beacon for the rest of the world.