In particular, for younger researchers on whom the future of mankind may depend. We believe that they are working with all the scientific wisdom at their disposal for the preservation of the inheritance of the earth and for the lasting survival of mankind.

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

Never say never, but the thought of electively cutting oneself is beyond my grasp, and I also object to it politically. Denying the lines on our faces makes a comment about age and wisdom I don't care to make.

If to live is to progress, if you are lucky, from foolishness to wisdom, then to write novels is to broadcast the various stages of your foolishness.

Practical wisdom is only to be learned in the school of experience. Precepts and instruction are useful so far as they go, but, without the discipline of real life, they remain of the nature of theory only.

The experience gathered from books, though often valuable, is but the nature of learning whereas the experience gained from actual life is one of the nature of wisdom.

It is astonishing what force, purity, and wisdom it requires for a human being to keep clear of falsehoods.

Evil can be a teacher, if you look at the wisdom of its negative power.

Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.

God in His wisdom has decided that He will reward no works but His own.