I will give you a definition of a proud man: he is a man who has neither vanity nor wisdom one filled with hatreds cannot be vain, neither can he be wise.
A proverb is the wisdom of many and the wit of one.
A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.
I'm no expert. I have no psychic powers, and I sure don't possess any secret wisdom. I'm just Janet. I have strengths, weaknesses, fears, happiness, sadness. I experience joy and I experience pain. I'm highly emotional. I'm very vulnerable.
Saudi Arabia is a puritanical state that claims a monopoly of wisdom and virtue.
In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.
Quick decisions are unsafe decisions.
When I go out to direct a film, every day we prepare too much, we think too much. Knowledge becomes a weight upon wisdom. You know, simple words lost in the quicksand of experience.
The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation.
I find the fact that billionaires are quoted as if the fact that they are billionaires gives them some kind of wisdom is outrageous.
It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.
In your 20s you can be pretty, but you don't accomplish real beauty until you find wisdom and depth.
I'm always feeling like I'm lacking wisdom. This reassurance that one can ask God for that and it will happen is certainly reassuring to me.
The Divine of the Lord in heaven is love, for the reason that love is receptive of all things of heaven, such as peace, intelligence, wisdom and happiness.
Now it is time to turn to an older wisdom that, while respecting material comfort and security as a basic right of all, also recognises that many of the most valuable things in life cannot be measured.
We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.
You know how people always talk about how vision is the key to entrepreneurship and perseverance and really seeing what other people don't see? We can actually redeem a fair amount of that folk wisdom.
I think in conventional magazine wisdom, you need to have a redesign every decade or so.
I'd rather regret the things I've done than regret the things I haven't done.
I'm not wise, but the beginning of wisdom is there; it's like relaxing into - and an acceptance of - things.
