The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living which are to be desired when dying.

Normally street children are shown in terms of the tragedy of their lives - which is true - but there's also another dimension: their wisdom dignity and enormous capacity for survival.

Unhappy is that Grandeur which makes us too great to be good and that Wit which sets us at a distance from true Wisdom.

The Relation we bear to the Wisdom of the Father the Son of His Love gives us indeed a dignity which otherwise we have no pretence to. It makes us something something considerable even in God's Eyes.

Humility is the only true wisdom by which we prepare our minds for all the possible changes of life.

Economists often like startling theorems results which seem to run counter to conventional wisdom.

To build a great company which is a CEO's job sometimes you have to stand up against conventional wisdom.

There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives.

That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in another.

Doubt is the vestibule through which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom.

Every nation whose affairs betray a want of wisdom and stability may calculate on every loss which can be sustained from the more systematic policy of its wiser neighbors.

Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack. We give it orders which make no sense.

Wisdom is that apprehension of heavenly things to which the spirit rises through love.

The older I get the more wisdom I find in the ancient rule of taking first things first. A process which often reduces the most complex human problem to a manageable proportion.

Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom not a guide by which to live.

Excellence then is a state concerned with choice lying in a mean relative to us this being determined by reason and in the way in which the man of practical wisdom would determine it.

Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.

Few of the many wise apothegms which have been uttered have prevented a single foolish action.

Virtues are acquired through endeavor which rests wholly upon yourself.

Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it and I shall move the world.

Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?

I wear my wedding ring. We talk about when we're going to get married again which we hope is going to take place some time in this incredibly hectic calendar year.

I just wrapped this movie called The Wedding Crashers which was a pretty big break for me.

I am usually part of any disaster at a wedding if I'm a bridesmaid which I've been lucky enough to be several times.