Pastoral Resources

Your aim will be knowledge and wisdom, not the reflected glamour of fame.

The more I work with the body, keeping my assumptions in a temporary state of reservation, the more I appreciate and sympathize with a given disease. The body no longer appears as a sick or irrational demon, but as a process with its own inner logic and wisdom.

Conventional wisdom notwithstanding, there is no reason either in football or in poetry why the two should not meet in a man's life if he has the weight and cares about the words.

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.

It is not from reason that justice springs, but goodness is born of wisdom.

Contemplation and wisdom are highest achievements and man is not totally at home with them.

Wisdom is knowledge which has become a part of one's being.

To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.

It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.

The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.

Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience.

Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

The perceived wisdom is that people do not go in large numbers to black-and-white movies anymore - which is a great shame, but I'd love to make a black-and-white movie one day.

Follow the wisdom of the great actor, James Cagney, you hit your mark, you look the other guy in the eye, and you tell the truth.

The most important lesson of New Labour is this: Every time we made progress we did it by challenging the conventional wisdom.

Pain is the doorway to wisdom and to truth.

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

But in its final creation it was not the part of the Father's power to fail as though exhausted. It was not the part of His wisdom to waver in a needful matter through poverty of counsel.

God the Father, the supreme Architect, had already built this cosmic home we behold, the most sacred temple of His godhead, by the laws of His mysterious wisdom.

To profit from good advice requires more wisdom than to give it.