Quotes about Wisdom

The wisdom of the precaution is evident from the cry which has been raised against it; as that very cry betrays a disposition to question the great and essential truth which it is manifestly the object of that provision to declare.

All extremes are pernicious in various ways.

His answer trickled through my head like water through a sieve.

Now, if you notice how the swan, putting its neck down into the deep water, brings up food for itself from below, then you will discover the wisdom of the Creator, in that He gave it a neck longer than its feet for this reason, that it might, as if lowering a sort of fishing line, procure the food hidden in the deep water.

Me is a common sense man. That mean when me explain things, me explain it in a very simple way; that mean if I explain it to a baby, the baby will understand too, you know.

Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.

If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way.

A man only learns in two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people.

Spiritual people don't float around all day on clouds of glory; they live in the real world and deal with real issues in real ways.

Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

We also can't try to take over and rebuild every country that falls into crisis. That's not leadership; that's a recipe for quagmire, spilling American blood and treasure that ultimately weakens us. It's the lesson of Vietnam, of Iraq - and we should have learned it by now.

Who ever converses among old books will be hard to please among the new.