“Has fortune dealt you some bad cards. Then let wisdom make you a good gamester.”
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.
“My mother is a great source of advice and wisdom and consolation for me.”
“Has fortune dealt you some bad cards. Then let wisdom make you a good gamester.”
“Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.”
“If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise.”
“Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun.”
“Many people have their reputations as reporters and analysts because they are on television, batting around conventional wisdom. A lot of these people have never reported a story.”
“Doubt is the vestibule through which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom.”
“The clouds may drop down titles and estates, and wealth may seek us, but wisdom must be sought.”
“I didn't get where I am today by worryin' about how I'd feel tomorrow.”
“Clinton is a big personality who has led a big life, and for some of the media conventional wisdom to boil it down to a view that 'all people are really interested in' are a few moments of madness in the Oval Office gets him, the importance of the presidency, and the significance of his life, all wrong.”
“In my definition of consciousness, consciousness is the same thing as life. What wisdom traditions also call spirit.”
“If we have built on the fragile cornerstones of human wisdom, pride, and conditional love, things may look good for a while, but a weak foundation causes collapse when storms hit.”
“Now our founding fathers had the wisdom to know that social acceptance and popularity were fleeing, and that this country's principles needed to be rooted in strengths greater than the passions and the emotions of the times.”
“In the frank expression of conflicting opinions lies the greatest promise of wisdom in governmental action.”
“Every speaker has a mouth An arrangement rather neat. Sometimes it's filled with wisdom. Sometimes it's filled with feet.”
“It is astonishing what force, purity, and wisdom it requires for a human being to keep clear of falsehoods.”