Purity engenders Wisdom Passion avarice and Ignorance folly infatuation and darkness.

Saudi Arabia is a puritanical state that claims a monopoly of wisdom and virtue.

I always see where I didn't do things the right way. I only see the heavy lifting. That's a bit of my wisdom if you want to call it that.

The left has come to regard common sense - the traditional wisdom and folkways of the community - as an obstacle to progress and enlightenment.

The Divine wisdom has given us prayer not as a means whereby to obtain the good things of earth but as a means whereby we learn to do without them not as a means whereby we escape evil but as a means whereby we become strong to meet it.

Wisdom is knowing when you can't be wise.

I'm not wise but the beginning of wisdom is there it's like relaxing into - and an acceptance of - things.

Sometimes one likes foolish people for their folly better than wise people for their wisdom.

Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences.

My mother is a great source of advice and wisdom and consolation for me.

No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool. Writers alas have to be fools in public while the rest of the human race can cover its tracks.

In my own personal life God plays a great role in the risk because I pray before I go into the operating room for every case and I ask him to give me wisdom to help me to know what to do - and not only for operating but for everything.

All free governments are managed by the combined wisdom and folly of the people.

Wisdom consists not so much in knowing what to do in the ultimate as knowing what to do next.

Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.

It is almost everywhere the case that soon after it is begotten the greater part of human wisdom is laid to rest in repositories.

To build a great company which is a CEO's job sometimes you have to stand up against conventional wisdom.

Wisdom and understanding can only become the possession of individual men by travelling the old road of observation attention perseverance and industry.

You know many people have said that I'm on the edge and I'm maverick for some of the big operations that I've done. I'm not at all. I pray I ask God to give me wisdom 'Should I do it?' guidance in terms of how to do it who to consult with. All those kind of things are incredibly important.

Sciences may be learned by rote but wisdom not.

Around '93 '94 the conventional wisdom about the Internet was that it was a toy for academics and researchers. So it was very very underestimated for about two years.

Wisdom is not attained by years but by ability.

The more I work with the body keeping my assumptions in a temporary state of reservation the more I appreciate and sympathize with a given disease. The body no longer appears as a sick or irrational demon but as a process with its own inner logic and wisdom.

Whenever you argue with another wiser than yourself in order that others may admire your wisdom they will discover your ignorance.