In complete darkness we are all the same, it is only our knowledge and wisdom that separates us, don't let your eyes deceive you.

The wisdom and experience of older people is a resource of inestimable worth. Recognizing and treasuring the contributions of older people is essential to the long-term flourishing of any society.

We learn from each other. We learn from others' mistakes, from their experience, their wisdom. It makes it easier for us to come to better decisions in our own lives.

It is better to risk starving to death then surrender. If you give up on your dreams, what's left?

As a society, we come up lacking in many of the marks of compassion and wisdom by which we measure ourselves as civilized.

As a husband, father and public servant, I'm thankful for the counsel and wisdom of my older brothers - Bill, who was a priest, and Kevin, who is a priest.

When an opponent comes forward, move in and greet him; if he wants to pull back, send him on his way.

To profit from good advice requires more wisdom than to give it.

A cardinal rule in budgeting and saving is to pay yourself first. Once your paycheck hits your account, wisdom has it that you should move some amount to savings even before you pay the bills.

It's one thing to really dream and have a vision and want all these cool things, but it's a whole other thing when you actually have wisdom and understand things. Then you can truly make the best decisions.

Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.

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.

America's freedom of religion, and freedom from religion, offers every wisdom tradition an opportunity to address our soul-deep needs: Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, secular humanism, agnosticism and atheism among others.

But I do think it's important to remember that writers do not have a monopoly of wisdom on their books. They can be wrong about their own books, they can often learn about their own books.

A man begins cutting his wisdom teeth the first time he bites off more than he can chew.

I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

Doubt the conventional wisdom unless you can verify it with reason and experiment.

After all my possessions had been burned, God gave me the wisdom to return to Jerusalem.

The opportunity for brotherhood presents itself every time you meet a human being.

We are to seek wisdom and understanding only in the length of days.