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" He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose. "

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" The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while. "

Albert Einstein

" Community organizing is all about building grassroots support. It's about identifying the people around you with whom you can create a common, passionate cause. And it's about ignoring the conventional wisdom of company politics and instead playing the game by very different rules. "

" After all my possessions had been burned, God gave me the wisdom to return to Jerusalem. "

Shmuel Yosef Agnon

" There is a trade off - as you grow older you gain wisdom but you lose spontaneity. "

" When I can look life in the eyes, grown calm and very coldly wise, life will have given me the truth, and taken in exchange - my youth. "

" Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences. "

" Men who know themselves are no longer fools. They stand on the threshold of the door of Wisdom. "

" A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool. "

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

" If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner. "

Omar N. Bradley

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

" We do not sit as a superlegislature to weigh the wisdom of legislation. "

William O. Douglas

" The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark. "

" A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them. "

John C. Maxwell

" The philosophy of life is this: Life is not a struggle, not a tension... Life is bliss. It is eternal wisdom, eternal existence. "

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

" Kabbalah is all about change. It isn't about being proud of our good qualities: the wisdom is about transforming our darkness into light. "

" My own life is wonderful, but if I had to live the life of someone else, I'd gladly choose that of Julia Child or Dr. Seuss: two outrageously original people, each of whom fashioned an idiosyncratic wisdom, passion for life, and sense of humor into an art form that anyone and everyone could savor. "

" Spending two years on my uncle's ranch in Montana as a young man gave me the wisdom and the thrust to do westerns. "

" Wisdom sails with wind and time. "

" Perhaps too much of everything is as bad as too little. "

" Through the years, I, like you, have experienced pressures and disappointments that would have crushed me had I not been able to draw upon a source of wisdom and strength far greater than my own. He has never forgotten or forsaken me, and I have come to know for myself that Jesus is the Christ and that this is His Church. "

" The fall of dropping water wears away the Stone. "

" He dares to be a fool, and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom. "

" The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom... in a clarification of life - not necessarily a great clarification, such as sects and cults are founded on, but in a momentary stay against confusion. "

" Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use. "

Thomas J. Watson

" Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information? "

" People usually compare the computer to the head of the human being. I would say that hardware is the bone of the head, the skull. The semiconductor is the brain within the head. The software is the wisdom. And data is the knowledge. "

" Wisdom is oftentimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar. "

William Wordsworth

" A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom. "

" Contrary to popular wisdom, the mark of a great meeting is not how short it is or whether it ends on time. The key is whether it ends with clarity and commitment from participants. "

Patrick Lencioni

" Enraging liberals is simply one of the more enjoyable side effects of my wisdom. "