Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life - in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk and to make our words and actions all of a color. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
No party has a monopoly on wisdom. No democracy works without compromise. But when Governor Romney and his allies in Congress tell us we can somehow lower our deficit by spending trillions more on new tax breaks for the wealthy - well, you do the math. I refuse to go along with that. And as long as I'm President, I never will. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them in their mediocrity. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in the way in which the man of practical wisdom would determine it. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>