However, I must not indulge in homespun wisdom here before so distinguished an assembly, especially as I am to be followed by a representative of science.
Category: wisdom
Surely, God on high has not refused to give us enough wisdom to find ways to bring us an improvement in relations between the two great nations on earth.
It is almost everywhere the case that soon after it is begotten the greater part of human wisdom is laid to rest in repositories.
Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.
It may almost be a question whether such wisdom as many of us have in our mature years has not come from the dying out of the power of temptation, rather than as the results of thought and resolution.
Losing faith in your own singularity is the start of wisdom, I suppose also the first announcement of death.
I don’t think you can come into your wisdom until you have made mistakes on your own skin and felt them in reality of your own life.
Any successful nominee should possess both the temperament to interpret the law and the wisdom to do so fairly. The next Supreme Court Justice should have a record of protecting individual rights and a strong willingness to put aside any political agenda.
He was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the rich.
What could be more lonely than to be enveloped in silence, to be the last of your people to speak your native tongue, to have no way to pass on the wisdom of the elders, to anticipate the promise of the children. This tragic fate is indeed the plight of someone somewhere roughly every two … Read more