Wisdom and understanding can only become the possession of individual men by travelling the old road of observation, attention, perseverance, and industry.

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

Age is a terrible avenger. The lessons of life give you so much to work with, but by the time you've got all this great wisdom, you don't get to be young anymore.

What if Barack Obama established a Presidential Advisory Committee that would meet once every couple of months, bringing together the former presidents for a conference in order to seek their collective wisdom? There is a wealth of experience in former presidents that generally goes untapped.

This, and this alone, is Christianity, a universal holiness in every part of life, a heavenly wisdom in all our actions, not conforming to the spirit and temper of the world but turning all worldly enjoyments into means of piety and devotion to God.

It is almost everywhere the case that soon after it is begotten the greater part of human wisdom is laid to rest in repositories.

Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.

Wisdom consists not so much in knowing what to do in the ultimate as knowing what to do next.

All free governments are managed by the combined wisdom and folly of the people.

In my own personal life, God plays a great role in the risk, because I pray before I go into the operating room for every case, and I ask him to give me wisdom, to help me to know what to do - and not only for operating, but for everything.