Make it your habit not to be critical about small things.

In societies where mature workers are respected and where their wisdom is respected, everybody benefits. Workers are more engaged and productive. Their health is better. They live longer.

I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.

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

My past is my wisdom to use today... my future is my wisdom yet to experience. Be in the present because that is where life resides.

The ultimate wisdom which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed. There it lies, the simplest fact of the universe and at the same time the one which calls faith rather than reason.

'Star Trek' was an attempt to say humanity will reach maturity and wisdom on the day that it begins not just to tolerate but take a special delight in differences in ideas and differences in lifeforms.

I quite like the idea - just as an abstract idea - of 12 people's collective life experience and wisdom being this formidable thing. People say juries can be led - I think 12 people from different backgrounds, different races, different genders, different ages, it's hard to hoodwink.

I do interviews because it's a chance to be myself. I sometimes wonder what I could have to say that would be of any interest. I don't have any great wisdom.

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

I can write 100 books on the wisdom and lessons from stories in the Bible.

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.

My abiding faith in the wisdom of our electorate is what gives me hope.

He dares to be a fool, and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.

One could surely argue that the Buddhist tradition, taken as a whole, represents the richest source of contemplative wisdom that any civilization has produced.

What I've been able to do with my character, Madea, and the other characters, with the jokes, is use it as an anesthetic to get to the heart and soul of real issues. And what I've found on stage over the years is that, while making people laugh, I can drop in pearls of wisdom.

Only people who lack wisdom would say that a project should be pursued even if it leads to wanton destruction of forests.

I covered my face because they had taken my wisdom teeth out.

There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart.

I was pretty sure I lacked the wisdom to be the commencement speaker, but after stewing over the idea for about 48 hours, I decided that if the senior class at the University of Wisconsin wants me to come speak, I'll do whatever they ask me. I love that school.