Wisdom
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Being in humaneness is good. If we select other goodness and thus are far apart from humaneness, how can we be the wise?
It is time to remember that old wisdom our soldiers will never forget: that whether we are black or brown or white, we all bleed the same red blood of patriots, we all enjoy the same glorious freedoms, and we all salute the same great American Flag.
The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.
An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red stoplight... the truly wise person is colorblind.
Year's end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us.
The dead keep their secrets, and in a while we shall be as wise as they — and as taciturn.
The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.
The United Nations' founders understood that decisions affecting war and peace should happen only by consensus, and with America's consent, the veto by Security Council permanent members was enshrined in the United Nations Charter. The profound wisdom of this has underpinned the stability of international relations for decades.
