What makes Superman a hero is not that he has power but that he has the wisdom and the maturity to use the power wisely. From an acting point of view that's how I approached the part.

The more tranquil a man becomes the greater is his success his influence his power for good. Calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom.

The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.

Community organizing is all about building grassroots support. It's about identifying the people around you with whom you can create a common passionate cause. And it's about ignoring the conventional wisdom of company politics and instead playing the game by very different rules.

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.

Teach you children poetry it opens the mind lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.

I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry but a kind of instinct or inspiration such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.

I have studied many philosophers and many cats. The wisdom of cats is infinitely superior.

I'm married. My wife Stella - a beautiful woman. She's brought a lot of peace to my life a lot of wisdom.

Patience is the companion of wisdom.

Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another.

It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

The all-seeing eye of God beheld our deplorable state infinite pity touched the heart of the Father of mercies and infinite wisdom laid the plan of our recovery.

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.

They see me as being this Super Mom on TV who also can more than handle a difficult husband and they assume I'm going to be just full of wisdom as a mother and wife myself.

My mom calls me an older soul because growing up she taught me stuff real early. Now I spend most of my time chasing wisdom chasing understanding.

Who in their infinite wisdom decreed that Little League uniforms be white? Certainly not a mother.

There are three classes of men lovers of wisdom lovers of honor and lovers of gain.

The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom to serve all but love only one.

Ignorance and bungling with love are better than wisdom and skill without.

A loving heart is the truest wisdom.

True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life ourselves and the world around us.

I've led a school whose faculty and students examine and discuss and debate every aspect of our law and legal system. And what I've learned most is that no one has a monopoly on truth or wisdom. I've learned that we make progress by listening to each other across every apparent political or ideological divide.