We learned in World War II that no single nation holds a monopoly on wisdom morality or right to power but that we must fight for the weak and promote democracy.
When you're used to being prepared to reject conventional wisdom it leaves you open to learn more.
The most excellent and divine counsel the best and most profitable advertisement of all others but the least practiced is to study and learn how to know ourselves. This is the foundation of wisdom and the highway to whatever is good.
The Divine wisdom has given us prayer not as a means whereby to obtain the good things of earth but as a means whereby we learn to do without them not as a means whereby we escape evil but as a means whereby we become strong to meet it.
Sciences may be learned by rote but wisdom not.
A man may learn wisdom even from a foe.
It is good even for old men to learn wisdom.
Some wisdom you must learn from one who's wise.
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.
You must learn day by day year by year to broaden your horizon. The more things you love the more you are interested in the more you enjoy the more you are indignant about the more you have left when anything happens.
He who lives by the crystal ball soon learns to eat ground glass.
When you get billions in aid and your weapons resupplied and your ammunition stock resupplied you don't learn the lesson that war is bad and nobody wins.
I saw clearly that war was upon us when I learned that my young men had been secretly buying ammunition.
But when will our leaders learn - war is not the answer.
In order to create lasting security you must learn to stand in your truth.
Do the things you know and you shall learn the truth you need to know.
In order that all men may be taught to speak the truth it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it.
The first thing I've learned is to trust nobody.
I grew up in a neighborhood in Baltimore that was like a war zone so I never learned to trust that there were people who could help me.
I focus on the writing and let the rest of the process take care of itself. I've learned to trust my own instincts and I've also learned to take risks.
What I've learned in these 11 years is you just got to stay focused and believe in yourself and trust your own ability and judgment.
The biggest lesson I learned from Vietnam is not to trust our own government statements. I had no idea until then that you could not rely on them.
Central authority is bad. The bias should be for freedom. And without a central authority there are lots of little authorities and we learn which ones to trust.
One of the things I had to learn as a writer was to trust the act of writing. To put myself in the position of writing to find out what I was writing.