Children also have artistic ability, and there is wisdom in there having it! The more helpless they are, the more instructive are the examples they furnish us and they must be preserved free of corruption from an early age.
Category: wisdom
This society in which we live is radically changing. What previous generations saw as evil is now embraced as being good. It is a dangerous and slippery slope upon which we stand when we reject what Solomon called the beginning of wisdom – the fear of God.
As great as Ed is, the wisdom out here is that he can’t carry a movie. They’ll pay him $3 million to be the second banana in Julia Roberts things. But they won’t put up $3 million for an Ed Harris movie.
Rightly defined philosophy is simply the love of wisdom.
Never let a fool kiss you, or a kiss fool you.
Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust.
What is man’s ultimate direction in life? It is to look for love, truth, virtue, and beauty.
The experience gathered from books, though often valuable, is but the nature of learning whereas the experience gained from actual life is one of the nature of wisdom.
Great wisdom is generous petty wisdom is contentious.
It’s better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your life.