“A wholesome oblivion of one's neighbours is the beginning of wisdom.”
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“Authority without wisdom is like a heavy ax without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish.”
“I've always shied away from conventional wisdom, though I know the power of it.”
“As I visited the various neighborhoods in the campaign, I learned fast that it's a mistake to think that all of the wisdom and possible solutions to our problems are available only in this building.”
“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.”
“True wisdom listens more, talks less and can get along with all types of people.”
“We all have within us a deep wisdom, but sometimes we don't know we have it.”
“We live in a culture that doesn't acknowledge or validate human intuition and doesn't encourage us to rely on our intuitive wisdom.”
“The thing that we possess, that machines don't, is the ability to exhibit wisdom.”
“And when the world is created, it is created in such a way that those eternal objects of God's loving wisdom become actualities - interacting with one another, relating to God in the finite realm.”
“Wisdom is not acquired save as the result of investigation.”
“Spend time reflecting on your emotional and physical existence and how that applies to the voice. You have to apply that wisdom and experience when you sing - it's what comes through.”
“This society in which we live is radically changing. What previous generations saw as evil is now embraced as being good. It is a dangerous and slippery slope upon which we stand when we reject what Solomon called the beginning of wisdom - the fear of God.”
“The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.”
“If God had sufficient wisdom and power to construct such a beautiful world as this, then we must admit that his wisdom and power are immeasurably greater than that of man, and hence he is qualified to reign as king.”
“This fear of the Lord is indeed the beginning of wisdom. This consciousness of sin is the straight pathway to heaven.”
“The first point of wisdom is to discern that which is false the second, to know that which is true.”
“The wisdom acquired with the passage of time is a useless gift unless you share it.”
“To light one candle to God and another to the Devil is the principle of wisdom.”
“Even wisdom has to yield to self-interest.”
“I feel increasingly like age is very irrelevant. Quite often, cynicism is confused with wisdom, and my scorn is confused with a knowing, which I don't have.”
“To suppose more than one supreme Source of infinite wisdom, power, and all perfections, is to assert that there is no supreme Being in existence.”
“Clinton is a big personality who has led a big life, and for some of the media conventional wisdom to boil it down to a view that 'all people are really interested in' are a few moments of madness in the Oval Office gets him, the importance of the presidency, and the significance of his life, all wrong.”
“I'm someone who's done the opposite of whatever the received wisdom is, to keep your career going into your 50s.”