It is now conventional wisdom that Americans do not care why we went to war in Iraq, that it is enough that the world is better off without Saddam Hussein.
Category: wisdom
I left school at 16 but I wish I’d gone to university – I think I would have studied English literature. I had a knack for that. But I don’t think you have the kind of wisdom at 16 to make that decision.
Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech.
Knowledge is the consequence of time, and multitude of days are fittest to teach wisdom.
Be happy. It’s one way of being wise.
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.
The study of history is the beginning of political wisdom.
I actually think with age comes some level of wisdom.
The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance – it is the illusion of knowledge.
One of the most beautiful passages of Rousseau is that in the sixth book of Confessions, where he describes the awakening in him of the literary sense. Of such wisdom, the poetic passion, the desire of beauty, the love of art for its own sake, has most.