“It has become part of the accepted wisdom to say that the twentieth century was the century of physics and the twenty-first century will be the century of biology.”
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“Focus on the mind and the soul. Read. Study. Enrol in a course of lectures. Pray. Become a member of a religious congregation. Study the Bible or other ancient works of wisdom.”
“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.”
“The most excellent and divine counsel, the best and most profitable advertisement of all others, but the least practiced, is to study and learn how to know ourselves. This is the foundation of wisdom and the highway to whatever is good.”
“Spending two years on my uncle's ranch in Montana as a young man gave me the wisdom and the thrust to do westerns.”
“If an idea is indeed sensible, it will eventually become just part of the accepted wisdom.”
“Silence and reserve will give anyone a reputation for wisdom.”
“He was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the rich.”
“There is a trade off - as you grow older you gain wisdom but you lose spontaneity.”
“One part of wisdom is knowing what you don't need anymore and letting it go.”
“It may almost be a question whether such wisdom as many of us have in our mature years has not come from the dying out of the power of temptation, rather than as the results of thought and resolution.”
“The weak have remedies, the wise have joys superior wisdom is superior bliss.”
“The clouds may drop down titles and estates, and wealth may seek us, but wisdom must be sought.”
“We all admire the wisdom of people who come to us for advice.”
“The plan was criticized by some retired military officers embedded in TV studios. But with every advance by our coalition forces, the wisdom of that plan becomes more apparent.”
“Many people have their reputations as reporters and analysts because they are on television, batting around conventional wisdom. A lot of these people have never reported a story.”
“If to live is to progress, if you are lucky, from foolishness to wisdom, then to write novels is to broadcast the various stages of your foolishness.”
“It is astonishing what force, purity, and wisdom it requires for a human being to keep clear of falsehoods.”
“Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.”
“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.”
“Has fortune dealt you some bad cards. Then let wisdom make you a good gamester.”
“The greatest wisdom is to realize one's lack of it.”
“It's very hard to know what wisdom is.”
“I always prayed that God would give me the wisdom and the vision to do the things on this earth that I was supposed to do to express His life and love and His will.”