“Wisdom is a sacred communion.”
Wisdom is not the same as intelligence — it is intelligence filtered through experience, humility, and time. These quotes offer the kind of perspective you usually have to live several decades to acquire, compressed into a sentence or two.
“Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.”
“Wisdom is a sacred communion.”
“The thing that we possess, that machines don't, is the ability to exhibit wisdom.”
“The final wisdom of life requires not the annulment of incongruity but the achievement of serenity within and above it.”
“Wisdom begins in wonder.”
“Men who know themselves are no longer fools. They stand on the threshold of the door of Wisdom.”
“Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.”
“A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool.”
“I learned some valuable lessons about the legislative process, the importance of bipartisan cooperation and the wisdom of taking small steps to get a big job done.”
“The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool the truest heroism is to resist the doubt and the profoundest wisdom, to know when it ought to be resisted, and when it be obeyed.”
“The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention.”
“Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.”
“Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity.”
“The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.”
“Saudi Arabia is a puritanical state that claims a monopoly of wisdom and virtue.”
“Wisdom is that apprehension of heavenly things to which the spirit rises through love.”