Quotes About Wisdom

If history teaches us anything, it teaches that simple-minded appeasement or wishful thinking about our adversaries is folly.

I see myself as an old man and an unqualified teacher to the nation. I think being a teacher is probably the most important thing you can be in politics.

If you're not very clever you should be conciliatory.

Unlike Churchill, I have no plans to shape history. . . . Socrates gave advice

Good politicians need not be intellectuals, but they should have intellectual lives.

It is beter to live 50 years as a tiger rather than live 100 years as a chicken

In politics, as in fishing, you don't have to be a genius. You just have to be smarter than the fish.

The ancients tell us what is best; but we must learn of the moderns what is fittest.

When you hate someone intensely, 80% of what you think is delusion.

I don't know anything about politics. Like, zero. Nothing.

My politics are short and sweet, like the old woman's dance.

I'm not going to talk too much politics because I'm not smart enough to do that.

It's generally not wise to pick a fight with law enforcement in politics, especially when you're in the middle of a pretty significant scandal already.

It's been a hard lesson for me , but contrary quite frankly to what is a common practice in politics, I can tell from my own experience, it is better to stay away from personalities.

Oh! the wisdom, the foresight and the hindsight and the rightsight and the leftsight, the northsight and the southsight, and the eastsight and the westsight that appeared in that august assembly.

The experience of being disastrously wrong is salutary, no economist should be denied it, and not many are.

Economists are economical, among other things, of ideas; most make those of their graduate days do for a lifetime.

During times like these, the wise are influential.

Mr. Craig was not above talking politics occasionally, though he piqued himself rather on a wise insight than on specific information.

For forms of Government let fools contest. Whate'er is best administered is best.

The evolution revolution is here. Global sense makes common sense.

Things to know from books to read

Sometimes in international politics, the better part of wisdom is to defer dangers rather than try to eliminate them altogether instantly.

When I first started, my songs were the politics of anger. As I got older and hopefully wiser, I wanted to be part of the politics of answers.