723 quotes found
“I look forward to a great future for America - a future in which our country will match its military strength with our moral restraint, its wealth with our wisdom, its power with our purpose.”
“We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.”
“Wisdom is the knowledge of good and evil, not the strength to choose between the two.”
“I don't have the strength or wisdom to get through a single day without guidance and grace from God.”
“It isn't right to judge strength as better than good wisdom.”
“For me, the perfect romantic suspense hero has got to be tough on the outside but tender at his core. A take-charge kind of guy who has his own inner strength and a strong sense of right and wrong ...”
“Strength and wisdom are not opposing values.”
“In world mythology, there are countless examples of tragic characters whose greatest strength is also the source of their undoing. But the ancient Greeks and Romans also held the view that acceptan...”
“Better than the strength of men and horses is our wisdom.”
“Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.”
“Patience is the companion of wisdom.”
“I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.”
“Information is not knowledge, and knowledge is not wisdom. Reading - even browsing - an old book can yield sustenance denied by a database search. Patience is a virtue, gluttony a sin.”
“The wisdom of man never yet contrived a system of taxation that would operate with perfect equality.”
“Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.”
“Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn. They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary li...”
“I think it's nice to age gracefully. OK, you lose the youth, a certain stamina and dewy glow, but what you gain on the inside as a human being is wonderful: the wisdom, the acceptance and the peace...”
“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 co...”
“I'm very accepting with my age. It's like notches on your belt: experience, wisdom, and a different kind of beauty. There comes a day when you've become comfortable in your skin.”
“Let no one be slow to seek wisdom when he is young nor weary in the search of it when he has grown old. For no age is too early or too late for the health of the soul.”
