“Mainstream media tend to just mouth the conventional wisdom, to see everything through the filter of right and left.”
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“Pain is the doorway to wisdom and to truth.”
“I'm not a money manager, but I can tell you what the conventional wisdom is. The younger you are, the more risk you can take on.”
“Dr. Johnson has said that the chief glory of a country arises from its authors. But then that is only as they are oracles of wisdom unless they teach virtue, they are more worthy of a halter than of the laurel.”
“I covered my face because they had taken my wisdom teeth out.”
“To keep your secret is wisdom to expect others to keep it is folly.”
“But in its final creation it was not the part of the Father's power to fail as though exhausted. It was not the part of His wisdom to waver in a needful matter through poverty of counsel.”
“Lord, give us the wisdom to utter words that are gentle and tender, for tomorrow we may have to eat them.”
“Nobility of spirit has more to do with simplicity than ostentation, wisdom rather than wealth, commitment rather than ambition.”
“This land, which we have watered with our tears and our blood, is now our mother country, and we are well satisfied to stay where wisdom abounds and gospel is free.”
“Every indication of wisdom, taken from the effect, is equally an indication of power to execute what wisdom planned.”
“Pessimism is only the name that men of weak nerves give to wisdom.”
“He whose wisdom cannot help him, gets no good from being wise.”
“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.”
“Words of wisdom are spoken by children at least as often as scientists.”
“Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.”
“What I lack in energy, I have in wisdom.”
“I have tried at every point to seek God's wisdom on the decisions I made, and I made it my business to speak up on behalf of the things God tells us are important to Him.”
“But the Wisdom of God, which is His only-begotten Son, being in all respects incapable of change or alteration, and every good quality in Him being essential, and such as cannot be changed and converted, His glory is therefore declared to be pure and sincere.”
“We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.”
“A monarchy conducted with infinite wisdom and infinite benevolence is the most perfect of all possible governments.”
“In justice to human society it may perhaps be said of almost all the polities and civil institutions in the world, however imperfect, that they have been founded in and carried on with very considerable wisdom.”
“The constitutions of Maryland and New York are founded in higher wisdom.”
“You know, it's sort of common wisdom among New York publishers that short story collections don't make money.”