Wisdom

At DonorsChoose.org, we believe that classroom teachers often know their students better than anybody else in the system and that their front-line experience gives them a special kind of wisdom.

Man is wise and constantly in quest of more wisdom; but the ultimate wisdom, which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed. There it lies, the simplest fact of the universe and at the same time the one which calls forth faith rather than reason.

No one who cooks, cooks alone. Even at her most solitary, a cook in the kitchen is surrounded by generations of cooks past, the advice and menus of cooks present, and the wisdom of cookbook writers.

Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency.

We people, maybe because we have the greatest wisdom, we are also mad. We destroy the harmony of the world.

The word philosophy sounds high-minded, but it simply means the love of wisdom. If you love something, you don't just read about it; you hug it, you mess with it, you play with it, you argue with it.

I acknowledge the privilege of being alive in a human body at this moment, endowed with senses, memories, emotions, thoughts, and the space of mind in its wisdom aspect.

There was a period of 10 years where the conventional wisdom was Black shows don't sell overseas, therefore nobody is interested.

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

The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.

The conventional wisdom in an election year is that nothing will get done until after the election.

I haven't any wisdom - just a child like everybody else. I'm not as great as Frank Lloyd Wright.

You need to have extraordinary wisdom to be the forerunner.

I think we perhaps are, with sleep, where we were with smoking about 50 years ago, in that we had all of the science, and it was right there for the public discussion, but it's not yet adequately sort of percolated out into policy or even just public wisdom.

Alas, those six unfortunate souls who have made their way through my books know that every one of them is about Emerson and Thoreau and their dark counters, Melville and Emily Dickinson. Try as I might, I can't get their inspirations, their challenges and sentences and wisdom and questions out of my head.

Doubt the conventional wisdom unless you can verify it with reason and experiment.

It's always fun to pass the wisdom on to the next generation.

If your writing collides with the conventional wisdom, there's going to be some kind of friction.

The more you meditate on the laws of Moses, the more striking and brighter does their wisdom appear.

If we had our priorities straight as a country, we'd consider leaving fame behind a mark of wisdom and character.