Wisdom Quotes

‘O, what a tangled web we weave when first we practise to deceive! – Walter Scott’ – Walter Scott

‘Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.’ – Napoleon Bonaparte

‘Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.’ – Archimedes

‘The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.’ – Socrates

‘The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.’ – Lao Tzu

‘He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose.’ – Jim Elliot

‘If you don’t know where you are going, any road will get you there.’ – Lewis Carroll

‘It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.’ – Henry David Thoreau

‘If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.’ – Nelson Mandela

‘Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.’ – Jim Rohn

‘People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way.’ – A. C. Benson

‘By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.’ – Confucius

‘The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.’ – William Arthur Ward

‘Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.’ – Ralph Waldo Emerson

‘It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.’ – Epictetus

‘In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.’ – John Muir

‘Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.’ – Carl Jung

‘Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.’ – Albert Einstein

‘For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.’ – Audrey Hepburn

‘Trouble shared is trouble halved.’ – Lee Iacocca

‘The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark.’ – Michelangelo

‘I’d rather regret the things I’ve done than regret the things I haven’t done.’ – Lucille Ball

‘We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far.’ – Swami Vivekananda

‘Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.’ – John Wooden

‘Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.’ – Will Rogers

‘Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.’ – George Bernard Shaw

‘The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.’ – Walt Disney

‘Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.’ – Henry Ford

‘A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them.’ – John C. Maxwell

‘If the world were perfect, it wouldn’t be.’ – Yogi Berra

‘You are a product of your environment. So choose the environment that will best develop you toward your objective. Analyze your life in terms of its environment. Are the things around you helping you toward success – or are they holding you back?’ – W. Clement Stone

‘Work like you don’t need the money. Love like you’ve never been hurt. Dance like nobody’s watching.’ – Satchel Paige

‘There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart.’ – Charles Dickens

‘Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.’ – Anton Chekhov

‘As you walk down the fairway of life you must smell the roses, for you only get to play one round.’ – Ben Hogan

‘Step with care and great tact, and remember that Life’s a Great Balancing Act.’ – Dr. Seuss

‘Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it.’ – Rabindranath Tagore

‘It’s better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your life.’ – Elizabeth Kenny

‘Set your course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.’ – Omar N. Bradley

‘Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.’ – Benjamin Franklin

‘Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn’t be done.’ – Amelia Earhart

‘The way you see people is the way you treat them, and the way you treat them is what they become.’ – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

‘Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.’ – Thomas A. Edison

‘Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.’ – Henry Van Dyke

‘Patience is the companion of wisdom.’ – Saint Augustine

‘I will not follow where the path may lead, but I will go where there is no path, and I will leave a trail.’ – Muriel Strode

‘If you set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.’ – Margaret Thatcher

‘Once you label me you negate me.’ – Soren Kierkegaard

‘Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.’ – George S. Patton

‘A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.’ – Saint Basil

‘The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.’ – John F. Kennedy

‘The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.’ – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

‘Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.’ – Sigmund Freud

‘He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe.’ – Marcus Aurelius

‘Turn your wounds into wisdom.’ – Oprah Winfrey

‘Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.’ – Judy Garland

‘Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.’ – Franz Kafka

‘Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life.’ – Lord Byron

‘Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.’ – Sydney J. Harris

‘It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it.’ – John Steinbeck

‘A day of worry is more exhausting than a week of work.’ – John Lubbock

‘Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.’ – Khalil Gibran

‘The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance – it is the illusion of knowledge.’ – Daniel J. Boorstin

‘Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking.’ – H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

‘There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.’ – Franklin D. Roosevelt

‘The truth is not for all men, but only for those who seek it.’ – Ayn Rand

‘That old law about ‘an eye for an eye’ leaves everybody blind. The time is always right to do the right thing.’ – Martin Luther King, Jr.

‘Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is God’s gift, that’s why we call it the present.’ – Joan Rivers

‘The higher we are placed, the more humbly we should walk.’ – Marcus Tullius Cicero

‘If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.’ – Abraham Maslow

‘To win without risk is to triumph without glory.’ – Pierre Corneille

‘A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow.’ – Charlotte Bronte

‘It is not who is right, but what is right, that is of importance.’ – Thomas Huxley

‘Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more.’ – William Cowper

‘Commitment is an act, not a word.’ – Jean-Paul Sartre

‘Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of facts within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.’ – Calvin Coolidge

‘The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.’ – Benjamin Disraeli

‘Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you’d have preferred to talk.’ – Doug Larson

‘If you’re trying to achieve, there will be roadblocks. I’ve had them; everybody has had them. But obstacles don’t have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don’t turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.’ – Michael Jordan

‘Spectacular achievement is always preceded by unspectacular preparation.’ – Robert H. Schuller

‘Experience is not what happens to you; it’s what you do with what happens to you.’ – Aldous Huxley

‘Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.’ – Pablo Picasso

‘We cannot become what we need to be by remaining what we are.’ – Max de Pree

‘Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again.’ – Joseph Campbell

‘It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.’ – Walter Lippmann

‘Today’s mighty oak is just yesterday’s nut, that held its ground.’ – David Icke

‘It is better to risk starving to death then surrender. If you give up on your dreams, what’s left?’ – Jim Carrey

‘No man was ever wise by chance.’ – Lucius Annaeus Seneca

‘Talent is God-given; be humble. Fame is man-given; be thankful. Conceit is self-given; be careful.’ – Harvey Mackay

‘A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool.’ – Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

‘With pride, there are many curses. With humility, there come many blessings.’ – Ezra Taft Benson

‘The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.’ – William James

‘Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours.’ – C. S. Lewis

‘The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention.’ – John Burroughs

‘What happens is not as important as how you react to what happens.’ – Ellen Glasgow

‘The opinion which other people have of you is their problem, not yours.’ – Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

‘Blessed are those who give without remembering and take without forgetting.’ – Elizabeth Bibesco

‘Appearances are often deceiving.’ – Aesop

‘My father said there were two kinds of people in the world: givers and takers. The takers may eat better, but the givers sleep better.’ – Marlo Thomas

‘Slow and steady wins the race.’ – Robert Lloyd

‘A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation.’ – Moliere

‘Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.’ – Phil Jackson

‘Beware, so long as you live, of judging men by their outward appearance.’ – Jean de La Fontaine

‘My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it’s on your plate.’ – Thornton Wilder

‘The superior man blames himself. The inferior man blames others.’ – Don Shula

‘A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right.’ – Thomas Paine

‘How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone.’ – Coco Chanel

‘Singleness of purpose is one of the chief essentials for success in life, no matter what may be one’s aim.’ – John D. Rockefeller

‘Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another.’ – Juvenal

‘The best way to predict the future is to invent it.’ – Alan Kay

‘Wisdom doesn’t necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.’ – Tom Wilson

‘It’s easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.’ – Leonardo da Vinci

‘I praise loudly. I blame softly.’ – Catherine the Great

‘Start wide, expand further, and never look back.’ – Arnold Schwarzenegger

‘Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.’ – Samuel Taylor Coleridge

‘The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one.’ – Honore de Balzac

‘Never cut what you can untie.’ – Joseph Joubert

‘We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.’ – Henry Ward Beecher

‘The day of fortune is like a harvest day, We must be busy when the corn is ripe.’ – Torquato Tasso

‘One’s philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes… and the choices we make are ultimately our responsibility.’ – Eleanor Roosevelt

‘Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. And don’t pray when it rains if you don’t pray when the sun shines.’ – Richard M. Nixon

‘The sweetest of all sounds is praise.’ – Xenophon

‘The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.’ – Friedrich Nietzsche

‘Perhaps too much of everything is as bad as too little.’ – Edna Ferber

‘If you want to go east, don’t go west.’ – Ramakrishna

‘When a thing is done, it’s done. Don’t look back. Look forward to your next objective.’ – George C. Marshall

‘Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use.’ – Thomas J. Watson

‘Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.’ – Alfred Lord Tennyson

‘A promise made is a debt unpaid.’ – Robert W. Service

‘Life is a travelling to the edge of knowledge, then a leap taken.’ – D. H. Lawrence

‘Wise sayings often fall on barren ground, but a kind word is never thrown away.’ – Arthur Helps

‘You always have two choices: your commitment versus your fear.’ – Sammy Davis, Jr.

‘The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.’ – Jean Paul

‘Don’t taunt the alligator until after you’ve crossed the creek.’ – Dan Rather

‘It is better to rust out than wear out.’ – Edwin Markham

‘The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself. It is not in your environment; it is not in luck or chance, or the help of others; it is in yourself alone.’ – Orison Swett Marden

‘A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune.’ – Horace

‘Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it.’ – Colin Powell

‘Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.’ – Elbert Hubbard

‘From the errors of others, a wise man corrects his own.’ – Publilius Syrus

‘Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time.’ – Theodore Roosevelt

‘The future has already arrived. It’s just not evenly distributed yet.’ – William Gibson

‘Wise kings generally have wise counselors; and he must be a wise man himself who is capable of distinguishing one.’ – Diogenes

‘The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.’ – William Blake

‘Wisdom begins at the end.’ – Daniel Webster

‘People spend too much time finding other people to blame, too much energy finding excuses for not being what they are capable of being, and not enough energy putting themselves on the line, growing out of the past, and getting on with their lives.’ – J. Michael Straczynski

‘A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants.’ – Joseph Addison

‘Be happy. It’s one way of being wise.’ – Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

‘Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.’ – George Eliot

‘But life is long. And it is the long run that balances the short flare of interest and passion.’ – Sylvia Plath

‘We never understand how little we need in this world until we know the loss of it.’ – James M. Barrie

‘It’s not the having, it’s the getting.’ – Elizabeth Taylor

‘Honesty is the best policy.’ – Benjamin Franklin

‘The fall of dropping water wears away the Stone.’ – Lucretius

‘Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.’ – Baruch Spinoza

‘All things must come to the soul from its roots, from where it is planted.’ – Saint Teresa of Avila

‘Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity.’ – Og Mandino

‘It is the neglect of timely repair that makes rebuilding necessary.’ – Richard Whately

‘Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.’ – Iris Murdoch

‘If fortune favors you do not be elated; if she frowns do not despond.’ – Ausonius

‘The soul’s joy lies in doing.’ – Percy Bysshe Shelley

‘Wisdom comes by disillusionment.’ – George Santayana

‘He who lives by the crystal ball soon learns to eat ground glass.’ – Edgar Fiedler

‘Never reach out your hand unless you’re willing to extend an arm.’ – Pope Paul VI

‘The wisdom of the wise is an uncommon degree of common sense.’ – William Inge

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

‘A closed mouth catches no flies.’ – Miguel de Cervantes

‘Applause is a receipt, not a bill.’ – Dale Carnegie

‘It is impossible to love and to be wise.’ – Francis Bacon

‘Some folks are wise and some are otherwise.’ – Tobias Smollett

‘Repeat anything often enough and it will start to become you.’ – Tom Hopkins

‘You have to find out what’s right for you, so it’s trial and error. You are going to be all right if you accept realistic goals for yourself.’ – Teri Garr

‘The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.’ – Khalil Gibran

‘Each of us has been put on earth with the ability to do something well. We cheat ourselves and the world if we don’t use that ability as best we can.’ – George Allen, Sr.

‘When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don’t adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.’ – Confucius

‘A charming woman… doesn’t follow the crowd. She is herself.’ – Loretta Young

‘The less you talk, the more you’re listened to.’ – Pauline Phillips

‘Deliberately seek opportunities for kindness, sympathy, and patience.’ – Evelyn Underhill

‘You must accept responsibility for your actions, but not the credit for your achievements.’ – Denis Waitley

‘Giving opens the way for receiving.’ – Florence Scovel Shinn

‘If you do not express your own original ideas, if you do not listen to your own being, you will have betrayed yourself.’ – Rollo May

‘It is always our own self that we find at the end of the journey. The sooner we face that self, the better.’ – Ella Maillart

‘A man begins cutting his wisdom teeth the first time he bites off more than he can chew.’ – Herb Caen

‘It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important.’ – Arthur Conan Doyle

‘The wheel that squeaks the loudest is the one that gets the grease.’ – Josh Billings

‘The opportunity for brotherhood presents itself every time you meet a human being.’ – Jane Wyman

‘Man’s wisdom is his best friend; folly his worst enemy.’ – William Temple

‘If I don’t have wisdom, I can teach you only ignorance.’ – Leo Buscaglia

‘Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago.’ – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

‘Let me warn you, if you start chasing after views, you’ll be left without bread and without views.’ – Nikolai Gogol

‘It’s the little details that are vital. Little things make big things happen.’ – John Wooden

‘I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.’ – Lao Tzu

‘It is wisdom in prosperity, when all is as thou wouldn’t have it, to fear and suspect the worst.’ – Desiderius Erasmus

‘Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.’ – Buddha

‘When in doubt, don’t.’ – Benjamin Franklin

‘What is man’s ultimate direction in life? It is to look for love, truth, virtue, and beauty.’ – Shinichi Suzuki

‘The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds.’ – John F. Kennedy

‘Every silver lining has a cloud.’ – Mary Kay Ash

‘First appearance deceives many.’ – Ovid

‘Quick decisions are unsafe decisions.’ – Sophocles

‘We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.’ – Ralph Waldo Emerson

‘Leave no stone unturned.’ – Euripides

‘None knows the weight of another’s burden.’ – George Herbert

‘It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.’ – Henry David Thoreau

‘If you call failures experiments, you can put them in your resume and claim them as achievements.’ – Mason Cooley

‘If you believe the doctors, nothing is wholesome; if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent; if you believe the military, nothing is safe.’ – Lord Salisbury

‘Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.’ – Alexander Pope

‘True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.’ – Socrates

‘If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.’ – Napoleon Bonaparte

‘Plodding wins the race.’ – Aesop

‘A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.’ – Nelson Mandela

‘Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.’ – David Starr Jordan

‘Imagination is more important than knowledge.’ – Albert Einstein

‘When you give yourself, you receive more than you give.’ – Antoine de Saint-Exupery

‘When you betray somebody else, you also betray yourself.’ – Isaac Bashevis Singer

‘Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself.’ – Khalil Gibran

‘Let deeds match words.’ – Plautus

‘Habit is the nursery of errors.’ – Victor Hugo

‘An ounce of cheerfulness is worth a pound of sadness to serve God with.’ – Thomas Fuller

‘People don’t notice whether it’s winter or summer when they’re happy.’ – Anton Chekhov

‘It takes a great man to give sound advice tactfully, but a greater to accept it graciously.’ – Logan Pearsall Smith

‘There are three faithful friends – an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.’ – Benjamin Franklin

‘The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.’ – H. L. Mencken

‘If you want to be found stand where the seeker seeks.’ – Sidney Lanier

‘I didn’t get where I am today by worryin’ about how I’d feel tomorrow.’ – Ron White

‘In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.’ – Arthur Schopenhauer

‘Memory is the mother of all wisdom.’ – Aeschylus

‘A mistake is simply another way of doing things.’ – Katharine Graham

‘It is like the seed put in the soil – the more one sows, the greater the harvest.’ – Orison Swett Marden

‘Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures.’ – H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

‘Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.’ – Hermann Hesse

‘It is much more difficult to measure nonperformance than performance.’ – Harold S. Geneen

‘Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.’ – Ralph Waldo Emerson

‘Wisdom sails with wind and time.’ – John Florio

‘This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.’ – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

‘It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.’ – Francois de La Rochefoucauld

‘You can’t sweep other people off their feet, if you can’t be swept off your own.’ – Clarence Day

‘The more one pleases everybody, the less one pleases profoundly.’ – Stendhal

‘Suffering is one of life’s great teachers.’ – Bryant H. McGill

‘Be as you wish to seem.’ – Socrates

‘Whatever you do in life, surround yourself with smart people who’ll argue with you.’ – John Wooden

‘Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment.’ – Lao Tzu

‘It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.’ – Epictetus

‘Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become.’ – Jim Rohn

‘We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.’ – George Bernard Shaw

‘Many of us spend half of our time wishing for things we could have if we didn’t spend half our time wishing.’ – Alexander Woollcott

‘You can observe a lot by watching.’ – Yogi Berra

‘When written in Chinese, the word ‘crisis’ is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity.’ – John F. Kennedy

‘A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.’ – Khalil Gibran

‘I believe that we are solely responsible for our choices, and we have to accept the consequences of every deed, word, and thought throughout our lifetime.’ – Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

‘Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.’ – Saint Augustine

‘The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.’ – Thomas A. Edison

‘Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.’ – George Santayana

‘To wear your heart on your sleeve isn’t a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it functions best.’ – Margaret Thatcher

‘Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.’ – Sophocles

‘A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.’ – Francis Bacon

‘You’ve got to go out on a limb sometimes because that’s where the fruit is.’ – Will Rogers

‘No one wants advice – only corroboration.’ – John Steinbeck

‘He who devotes sixteen hours a day to hard study may become at sixty as wise as he thought himself at twenty.’ – Mary Wilson Little

‘Please all, and you will please none.’ – Aesop

‘Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.’ – John Muir

‘Always keep an open mind and a compassionate heart.’ – Phil Jackson

‘Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself.’ – Marcus Tullius Cicero

‘The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.’ – Colin Powell

‘Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men.’ – Confucius

‘Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.’ – Alan Kay

‘Look around for a place to sow a few seeds.’ – Henry Van Dyke

‘Who is wise in love, love most, say least.’ – Alfred Lord Tennyson

‘If you wish to reach the highest, begin at the lowest.’ – Publilius Syrus

‘Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.’ – Thornton Wilder

‘Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone.’ – Horace

‘It is while you are patiently toiling at the little tasks of life that the meaning and shape of the great whole of life dawn on you.’ – Phillips Brooks

‘When I can look life in the eyes, grown calm and very coldly wise, life will have given me the truth, and taken in exchange – my youth.’ – Sara Teasdale

‘Never find fault with the absent.’ – Alexander Pope

‘When you doubt, abstain.’ – Ambrose Bierce

‘Self-suggestion makes you master of yourself.’ – W. Clement Stone

‘Wisdom is found only in truth.’ – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

‘Wisdom begins in wonder.’ – Socrates

‘The truest wisdom is a resolute determination.’ – Napoleon Bonaparte

‘The doors of wisdom are never shut.’ – Benjamin Franklin

‘Man is only great when he acts from passion.’ – Benjamin Disraeli

‘Wisdom is the quality that keeps you from getting into situations where you need it.’ – Doug Larson

‘When an opponent comes forward, move in and greet him; if he wants to pull back, send him on his way.’ – Morihei Ueshiba

‘Let us act on what we have, since we have not what we wish.’ – John Henry Newman

‘Wise men make more opportunities than they find.’ – Francis Bacon

‘Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess, and yet all the honesty in the world ain’t lawful tender for a loaf of bread.’ – Josh Billings

‘To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.’ – Bertrand Russell

‘Few of the many wise apothegms which have been uttered have prevented a single foolish action.’ – Thomas Babington Macaulay

‘The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are.’ – John Burroughs

‘Cleverness is not wisdom.’ – Euripides

‘It isn’t what you do, but how you do it.’ – John Wooden

‘In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don’t try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present.’ – Lao Tzu

‘A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.’ – Robert Frost

‘All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man.’ – Henry David Thoreau

‘We are wiser than we know.’ – Ralph Waldo Emerson

‘Of prosperity mortals can never have enough.’ – Aeschylus

‘To be satisfied with a little, is the greatest wisdom; and he that increaseth his riches, increaseth his cares; but a contented mind is a hidden treasure, and trouble findeth it not.’ – Akhenaton

‘Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?’ – Friedrich Nietzsche

‘All of us, at certain moments of our lives, need to take advice and to receive help from other people.’ – Alexis Carrel

‘Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own.’ – Aesop

‘Strong characters are brought out by change of situation, and gentle ones by permanence.’ – Jean Paul

‘Rarely promise, but, if lawful, constantly perform.’ – William Penn

‘Wisdom outweighs any wealth.’ – Sophocles

‘The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.’ – Benjamin Franklin

‘Make it your habit not to be critical about small things.’ – Edward Everett Hale

‘Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe.’ – Josh Billings

‘Look twice before you leap.’ – Charlotte Bronte

‘Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents.’ – Khalil Gibran

‘A mouse does not rely on just one hole.’ – Plautus

‘Combine the extremes, and you will have the true center.’ – Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

‘To advise is not to compel.’ – Anton Chekhov

‘Wisdom we know is the knowledge of good and evil, not the strength to choose between the two.’ – John Cheever

‘Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone.’ – Baltasar Gracian

‘Everything in the world may be endured except continual prosperity.’ – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

‘Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom.’ – Walter Benjamin

‘Virtues are acquired through endeavor, which rests wholly upon yourself.’ – Sidney Lanier

‘Everything important always begins from something trivial.’ – Donald Hall

‘Public opinion is no more than this: what people think that other people think.’ – Alfred Austin

‘This is what I learned: that everybody is talented, original and has something important to say.’ – Brenda Ueland

‘He dares to be a fool, and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.’ – James Huneker

‘It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own.’ – William Inge

‘When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.’ – Quintilian

‘Above all, you must fight conceit, envy, and every kind of ill-feeling in your heart.’ – Abraham Cahan

‘Wisdom is a sacred communion.’ – Victor Hugo

‘All human wisdom works and has worries and grief as reward.’ – Johann Georg Hamann

‘It is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.’ – Michel de Montaigne

‘Eventually, we reach the point where we start to realize that we are not going to find peace, contentment, happiness, strength, fearlessness – all of the things that in our heart of hearts we wish we had – outside of us.’ – Guy Finley

‘The difference between chirping out of turn and a faux pas depends on what kind of a bar you’re in.’ – Wilson Mizner

‘The best way to obtain truth and wisdom is not to ask from books, but to go to God in prayer, and obtain divine teaching.’ – Joseph Smith, Jr.

‘Don’t follow any advice, no matter how good, until you feel as deeply in your spirit as you think in your mind that the counsel is wise.’ – Joan Rivers

‘Meditation is the soul’s perspective glass.’ – Owen Feltham

‘You must learn day by day, year by year to broaden your horizon. The more things you love, the more you are interested in, the more you enjoy, the more you are indignant about, the more you have left when anything happens.’ – Ethel Barrymore

‘In seeking wisdom thou art wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it – thou art a fool.’ – Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

‘Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it.’ – Henry Ward Beecher

‘He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.’ – Aeschylus

‘Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.’ – Francis Bacon

‘God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.’ – Reinhold Niebuhr

‘Grief can be the garden of compassion. If you keep your heart open through everything, your pain can become your greatest ally in your life’s search for love and wisdom.’ – Rumi

‘To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.’ – Marilyn vos Savant

‘Don’t gain the world and lose your soul; wisdom is better than silver or gold.’ – Bob Marley

‘Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.’ – Thomas Jefferson

‘Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.’ – Charles Spurgeon

‘Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is knowing not to put it in a fruit salad.’ – Brian O’Driscoll

‘It is not wisdom but Authority that makes a law.’ – Thomas Hobbes

‘We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom. The world henceforth will be run by synthesizers, people able to put together the right information at the right time, think critically about it, and make important choices wisely.’ – E. O. Wilson

‘The best wisdom comes from the hardest struggle.’ – Xavier Rudd

‘Data is not information, information is not knowledge, knowledge is not understanding, understanding is not wisdom.’ – Clifford Stoll

‘Our wisdom comes from our experience, and our experience comes from our foolishness.’ – Sacha Guitry

‘Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.’ – Immanuel Kant

‘To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one’s family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one’s own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.’ – Buddha

‘Bitcoin is a swarm of cyber hornets serving the goddess of wisdom, feeding on the fire of truth, exponentially growing ever smarter, faster, and stronger behind a wall of encrypted energy.’ – Michael J. Saylor

‘Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?’ – T. S. Eliot

‘Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom.’ – Theodore Isaac Rubin

‘To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.’ – Plutarch

‘All human wisdom is summed up in two words; wait and hope.’ – Alexandre Dumas

‘Doubt the conventional wisdom unless you can verify it with reason and experiment.’ – Steve Albini

‘The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom… in a clarification of life – not necessarily a great clarification, such as sects and cults are founded on, but in a momentary stay against confusion.’ – Robert Frost

‘Let no one be slow to seek wisdom when he is young nor weary in the search of it when he has grown old. For no age is too early or too late for the health of the soul.’ – Epicurus

‘We don’t receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.’ – Marcel Proust

‘What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?’ – Jean-Jacques Rousseau

‘Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.’ – Ludwig van Beethoven

‘Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.’ – Jimi Hendrix

‘Wisdom alone is the science of other sciences.’ – Plato

‘In complete darkness we are all the same, it is only our knowledge and wisdom that separates us, don’t let your eyes deceive you.’ – Janet Jackson

‘We must expect reverses, even defeats. They are sent to teach us wisdom and prudence, to call forth greater energies, and to prevent our falling into greater disasters.’ – Robert E. Lee

‘Start with God – the first step in learning is bowing down to God; only fools thumb their noses at such wisdom and learning.’ – King Solomon

‘True wisdom is less presuming than folly. The wise man doubteth often, and changeth his mind; the fool is obstinate, and doubteth not; he knoweth all things but his own ignorance.’ – Akhenaton

‘Know what’s important and what isn’t. Have the wisdom to know the right thing to do, the integrity to do it, the character to stand up to those who don’t, and the courage to stop those who won’t.’ – Mark Goulston

‘Let us be about setting high standards for life, love, creativity, and wisdom. If our expectations in these areas are low, we are not likely to experience wellness. Setting high standards makes every day and every decade worth looking forward to.’ – Greg Anderson

‘In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.’ – Ansel Adams

‘Cynicism masquerades as wisdom, but it is the furthest thing from it. Because cynics don’t learn anything. Because cynicism is a self-imposed blindness: a rejection of the world because we are afraid it will hurt us or disappoint us. Cynics always say ‘no.’ But saying ‘yes’ begins things. Saying ‘yes’ is how things grow.’ – Stephen Colbert

‘The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.’ – Aristotle

‘Swim upstream. Go the other way. Ignore the conventional wisdom.’ – Sam Walton

‘The way a woman carries herself and the way she dresses ought to promote the following types of words: modesty, discretion, wisdom, beauty, elegance and refinement, but not sensuality, luxury, extravagance.’ – Paul Washer

‘Because you are women, people will force their thinking on you, their boundaries on you. They will tell you how to dress, how to behave, who you can meet and where you can go. Don’t live in the shadows of people’s judgement. Make your own choices in the light of your own wisdom.’ – Amitabh Bachchan

‘Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.’ – H. L. Mencken

‘Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.’ – Samuel Johnson

‘Pain makes man think. Thought makes man wise. Wisdom makes life endurable.’ – John Patrick

‘A monarchy conducted with infinite wisdom and infinite benevolence is the most perfect of all possible governments.’ – Ezra Stiles

‘Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live.’ – Robert Kennedy

‘The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.’ – Isaac Asimov

‘We respect our elders. There is wisdom that comes from experience, and I am not going to stop learning from wise counsel.’ – Marcia Fudge

‘Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.’ – Bertrand Russell

‘Always keep your mind as bright and clear as the vast sky, the great ocean, and the highest peak, empty of all thoughts. Always keep your body filled with light and heat. Fill yourself with the power of wisdom and enlightenment.’ – Morihei Ueshiba

‘We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success. We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.’ – Samuel Smiles

‘My aim, then, was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us. Fear is the beginning of wisdom.’ – William Tecumseh Sherman

‘Logic is the beginning of wisdom, not the end.’ – Leonard Nimoy

‘Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences.’ – Norman Cousins

‘Wisdom is nothing but a preparation of the soul, a capacity, a secret art of thinking, feeling and breathing thoughts of unity at every moment of life.’ – Hermann Hesse

‘In youth and beauty, wisdom is but rare!’ – Homer

‘I prefer the folly of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.’ – Anatole France

‘Don’t ask for a million dollars. Ask for the stuff that’ll get you a million dollars – your health, your brain, your sanity, wisdom. Prepare me for when I do get that million. Make sure I don’t go crazy, make sure I help my family.’ – Future

‘We humans have lost the wisdom of genuinely resting and relaxing. We worry too much. We don’t allow our bodies to heal, and we don’t allow our minds and hearts to heal.’ – Thich Nhat Hanh

‘Whenever you argue with another wiser than yourself in order that others may admire your wisdom, they will discover your ignorance.’ – Saadi

‘This age thinks better of a gilded fool Than of a threadbare saint in wisdom’s school.’ – Thomas Dekker

‘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.’ – Edmund Burke

‘The best wisdom is earned through experience, particularly mistakes.’ – Sophia Amoruso

‘To profit from good advice requires more wisdom than to give it.’ – Wilson Mizner

‘Earthly wisdom is doing what comes naturally. Godly wisdom is doing what the Holy Spirit compels us to do.’ – Charles Stanley

‘Silence is true wisdom’s best reply.’ – Euripides

‘Wisdom is the knowledge of good and evil, not the strength to choose between the two.’ – John Cheever

‘The world is a diverse place. Nobody has a monopoly on virtue or wisdom.’ – Lee Hsien Loong

‘Preconceived notions are the locks on the door to wisdom.’ – Mary Browne

‘Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.’ – Graham Greene

‘Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech cantankerous.’ – Zhuangzi

‘Year’s end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us.’ – Hal Borland

‘Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.’ – Plautus

‘We learn from each other. We learn from others’ mistakes, from their experience, their wisdom. It makes it easier for us to come to better decisions in our own lives.’ – Adrian Grenier

‘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.’ – George MacDonald

‘Our shared values define us more than our differences. And acknowledging those shared values can see us through our challenges today if we have the wisdom to trust in them again.’ – John McCain

‘Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that deceives them.’ – Francois de La Rochefoucauld

‘Those who improve with age embrace the power of personal growth and personal achievement and begin to replace youth with wisdom, innocence with understanding, and lack of purpose with self-actualization.’ – Bo Bennett

‘Outside of the cross of Jesus Christ, there is no hope in this world. That cross and resurrection at the core of the Gospel is the only hope for humanity. Wherever you go, ask God for wisdom on how to get that Gospel in, even in the toughest situations of life.’ – Ravi Zacharias

‘Books are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom.’ – George William Curtis

‘Influential people are never satisfied with the status quo. They’re the ones who constantly ask, ‘What if?’ and ‘Why not?’ They’re not afraid to challenge conventional wisdom, and they don’t disrupt things for the sake of being disruptive; they do it to make things better.’ – Travis Bradberry

‘The Universal Zulu Nation stands to acknowledge wisdom, understanding, freedom, justice, and equality, peace, unity, love, and having fun, work, overcoming the negative through the positive, science, mathematics, faith, facts, and the wonders of God, whether we call him Allah, Jehovah, Yahweh, or Jah.’ – Afrika Bambaataa

‘I believe that when an elder dies, a library is burned: vast sums of wisdom and knowledge are lost. Throughout the world libraries are ablaze with scant attention.’ – Elizabeth Kapu’uwailani Lindsey

‘The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation.’ – Isaac D’Israeli

‘Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues.’ – Abigail Adams

‘Pure, holy simplicity confounds all the wisdom of this world and the wisdom of the flesh.’ – Francis of Assisi

‘We can be knowledgable with other men’s knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.’ – Michel de Montaigne

‘I gave my beauty and my youth to men. I am going to give my wisdom and experience to animals.’ – Brigitte Bardot

‘Mothers are supposed to listen and, afterward, to respond with some wisdom and perspective, but these things were not my mother’s strong suit.’ – Anne Lamott

‘Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.’ – Phyllis Theroux

‘Wisdom is oftentimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar.’ – William Wordsworth

‘It is essential to employ, trust, and reward those whose perspective, ability, and judgment are radically different from yours. It is also rare, for it requires uncommon humility, tolerance, and wisdom.’ – Dee Hock

‘Being a survivor doesn’t mean being strong – it’s telling people when you need a meal or a ride, company, whatever. It’s paying attention to heart wisdom, feelings, not living a role, but having a unique, authentic life, having something to contribute, finding time to love and laugh. All these things are qualities of survivors.’ – Bernie Siegel

‘I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.’ – Thomas Carlyle

‘If people can’t acknowledge the wisdom of indigenous cultures, then that’s their loss.’ – Jay Griffiths

‘Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late.’ – Felix Frankfurter

‘Kindness is wisdom.’ – Philip James Bailey

‘There is as much wisdom in listening as there is in speaking – and that goes for all relationships, not just romantic ones.’ – Daniel Dae Kim

‘Hatred is corrosive of a person’s wisdom and conscience; the mentality of enmity can poison a nation’s spirit, instigate brutal life and death struggles, destroy a society’s tolerance and humanity, and block a nation’s progress to freedom and democracy.’ – Liu Xiaobo

‘The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.’ – Ralph Waldo Emerson

‘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.’ – James Allen

‘The price of wisdom is innocence. So, I have definitely become wiser but sadly a little less innocent.’ – Mahira Khan

‘The arts, quite simply, nourish the soul. They sustain, comfort, inspire. There is nothing like that exquisite moment when you first discover the beauty of connecting with others in celebration of larger ideals and shared wisdom.’ – Gordon Gee

‘We are to seek wisdom and understanding only in the length of days.’ – Robert Hall

‘Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.’ – Baltasar Gracian

‘Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.’ – Martin H. Fischer

‘I think it’s nice to age gracefully. OK, you lose the youth, a certain stamina and dewy glow, but what you gain on the inside as a human being is wonderful: the wisdom, the acceptance and the peace of mind. It’s a fair exchange.’ – Cherie Lunghi

‘Life is the only real counselor; wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue.’ – Edith Wharton

‘God has already done everything He’s going to do. The ball is now in your court. If you want success, if you want wisdom, if you want to be prosperous and healthy, you’re going to have to do more than meditate and believe; you must boldly declare words of faith and victory over yourself and your family.’ – Joel Osteen

‘Men who know themselves are no longer fools. They stand on the threshold of the door of Wisdom.’ – Havelock Ellis

‘The enemy of the conventional wisdom is not ideas but the march of events.’ – John Kenneth Galbraith

‘Every day, every birthday candle I blow out, every penny I throw over my shoulder in a wishing well, every time my daughter says, ‘Let’s make a wish on a star,’ there’s one thing I wish for: wisdom.’ – Rene Russo

‘Kisses are a better fate than wisdom.’ – e. e. cummings

‘He was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the rich.’ – Evelyn Waugh

‘I’m married. My wife, Stella – a beautiful woman. She’s brought a lot of peace to my life, a lot of wisdom.’ – Anthony Hopkins

‘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.’ – David Brainerd

‘All the great evils which men cause to each other because of certain intentions, desires, opinions, or religious principles, are likewise due to non-existence, because they originate in ignorance, which is absence of wisdom.’ – Maimonides

‘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.’ – Christopher Reeve

‘There’s a beauty to wisdom and experience that cannot be faked. It’s impossible to be mature without having lived.’ – Amy Grant

‘I think that music opens portals and doorways into unknown sectors that it takes courage to leap into. I always think that there’s a potential that we all have, and we can emerge, rise up to this potential, when necessary. We have to be fearless, courageous, and draw upon wisdom that we think we don’t have.’ – Wayne Shorter

‘The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages is preserved into perpetuity by a nation’s proverbs, fables, folk sayings and quotations.’ – William Feather

‘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.’ – Herman Melville

‘Wisdom comes alone through suffering.’ – Aeschylus

‘With age comes common sense and wisdom.’ – Nas

‘Only a well-rounded intellect, a spirit nourished in the eternal sources of intelligence and culture, of justice and wisdom, is a safeguard against both indifference and skepticism.’ – Ameen Rihani

‘Champions invariably have fervent philosophical beliefs. Philosophy, in its simplest terms, means ‘the love of wisdom.” – Zig Ziglar

‘Wit and playfulness represent a desperately serious transcendence of evil. Humor is both a form of wisdom and a means of survival.’ – Tom Robbins

‘The greatest wisdom is to realize one’s lack of it.’ – Constantin Stanislavski

‘When spirituality is the basis of your life, it gives you the strength, wisdom and courage to surmount the many storms of life that could destroy a weaker person who doesn’t have this foundation.’ – Radhanath Swami

‘Sometimes you surprise yourself with what you can handle, and if you come out the other end with some wisdom, then it’s not such a bad thing.’ – Boy George

‘If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise.’ – William Butler Yeats

‘A thought transfixed me: for the first time in my life, I saw the truth as it is set into song by so many poets, proclaimed as the final wisdom by so many thinkers. The truth – that love is the ultimate and the highest goal to which man can aspire.’ – Viktor E. Frankl

‘Peace is a fragile thing. It takes courage to secure it. It takes wisdom to maintain it.’ – Jenny Shipley

‘It seems to me that, in every culture, I come across a chapter headed ‘Wisdom.’ And then I know exactly what is going to follow: ‘Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.” – Ludwig Wittgenstein

‘There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain.’ – Plato

‘Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust.’ – Karl Kraus

‘I have devoted my life to uncertainty. Certainty is the death of wisdom, thought, creativity.’ – Shekhar Kapur

‘The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.’ – Marcus Tullius Cicero

‘Vanity can easily overtake wisdom. It usually overtakes common sense.’ – Julian Casablancas

‘People usually compare the computer to the head of the human being. I would say that hardware is the bone of the head, the skull. The semiconductor is the brain within the head. The software is the wisdom. And data is the knowledge.’ – Masayoshi Son

”Star Trek’ was an attempt to say humanity will reach maturity and wisdom on the day that it begins not just to tolerate but take a special delight in differences in ideas and differences in lifeforms.’ – Gene Roddenberry

‘Our experience is composed rather of illusions lost than of wisdom acquired.’ – Joseph Roux

‘Since human wisdom cannot secure us from accidents, it is the greatest effort of reason to bear them well.’ – John Paul Jones

‘Even when you have doubts, take that step. Take chances. Mistakes are never a failure – they can be turned into wisdom.’ – Cat Cora

‘However great an evil immorality may be, we must not forget that it is not without its beneficial consequences. It is only through extremes that men can arrive at the middle path of wisdom and virtue.’ – Wilhelm von Humboldt

‘Wisdom denotes the pursuing of the best ends by the best means.’ – Francis Hutcheson

‘Has fortune dealt you some bad cards. Then let wisdom make you a good gamester.’ – Francis Quarles

‘A proverb is the wisdom of many and the wit of one.’ – Lord John Russell

‘Wisdom consists not so much in knowing what to do in the ultimate as knowing what to do next.’ – Herbert Hoover

‘I don’t have the strength or wisdom to get through a single day without guidance and grace from God.’ – Tony Dungy

‘The wisdom of man never yet contrived a system of taxation that would operate with perfect equality.’ – Andrew Jackson

‘The older I get the more wisdom I find in the ancient rule of taking first things first. A process which often reduces the most complex human problem to a manageable proportion.’ – Dwight D. Eisenhower

‘Consider this point. It is a main point of true wisdom. Whenever there is an execution of purpose, there must be an agent.’ – Adoniram Judson

‘It’s time to listen to the stories of the Indigenous; we are blessed as a country to look to the wisdom of a really old country.’ – Gord Downie

‘Wisdom is not acquired save as the result of investigation.’ – Sara Teasdale

‘The truest greatness lies in being kind, the truest wisdom in a happy mind.’ – Ella Wheeler Wilcox

‘It doesn’t matter how much wisdom you have. If you don’t have position, you have nothing. That’s the tragedy of India.’ – Rahul Gandhi

‘The wisdom and experience of older people is a resource of inestimable worth. Recognizing and treasuring the contributions of older people is essential to the long-term flourishing of any society.’ – Daisaku Ikeda

‘And I love that even in the toughest moments, when we’re all sweating it – when we’re worried that the bill won’t pass, and it seems like all is lost – Barack never lets himself get distracted by the chatter and the noise. Just like his grandmother, he just keeps getting up and moving forward… with patience and wisdom, and courage and grace.’ – Michelle Obama

‘Every one in the world ought to do the things for which he is specially adapted. It is the part of wisdom to recognize what each one of us is best fitted for, and it is the part of education to perfect and utilize such predispositions. Because education can direct and aid nature but can never transform her.’ – Maria Montessori

‘Most people see what they expect to see, what they want to see, what they’ve been told to see, what conventional wisdom tells them to see – not what is right in front of them in its pristine condition.’ – Vincent Bugliosi

‘The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out.’ – Walter Benjamin

‘I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship.’ – Pietro Aretino

‘Imagination allows us to escape the predictable. It enables us to reply to the common wisdom that we cannot soar by saying, ‘Just watch!” – Bill Bradley

‘You have to know when to stop – that’s wisdom.’ – Hubert de Givenchy

‘The key to wisdom is this – constant and frequent questioning, for by doubting we are led to question and by questioning we arrive at the truth.’ – Peter Abelard

‘Age does not bring you wisdom, age brings you wrinkles.’ – Estelle Getty

‘I’m not wise, but the beginning of wisdom is there; it’s like relaxing into – and an acceptance of – things.’ – Tina Turner

‘It’s a horrible idea that God, this paragon of wisdom and knowledge, power, couldn’t think of a better way to forgive us our sins than to come down to Earth in his alter ego as his son and have himself hideously tortured and executed so that he could forgive himself.’ – Richard Dawkins

‘I’m very accepting with my age. It’s like notches on your belt: experience, wisdom, and a different kind of beauty. There comes a day when you’ve become comfortable in your skin.’ – Zoe Saldana

‘Not engaging in ignorance is wisdom.’ – Bodhidharma

‘Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two. A constant coming and going: wisdom lies in the momentary.’ – Octavio Paz

‘Authority without wisdom is like a heavy ax without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish.’ – Anne Bradstreet

‘Knowledge is going to make you stronger. Knowledge is going to let you control your life. Knowledge is going to give you the wisdom to teach their children. Knowledge is the thing that makes you smile in the face of disaster.’ – Avery Brooks

‘The more you meditate on the laws of Moses, the more striking and brighter does their wisdom appear.’ – John Quincy Adams

‘Through consciousness, our minds have the power to change our planet and ourselves. It is time we heed the wisdom of the ancient indigenous people and channel our consciousness and spirit to tend the garden and not destroy it.’ – Bruce Lipton

‘To avoid entangling alliances has been a maxim of our policy ever since the days of Washington, and its wisdom no one will attempt to dispute.’ – James Buchanan

‘I am a poor student sitting at the feet of giants, yearning for their wisdom and begging for lessons that might one day make me a complete artist, so that if all goes well, I may one day sit beside them.’ – Rod Taylor

‘Some coaches pray for wisdom. I pray for 260-pound tackles. They’ll give me plenty of wisdom.’ – Chuck Noll

‘Experience – the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.’ – Ambrose Bierce

‘Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. People have the right to expect that these wants will be provided for by this wisdom.’ – Jimmy Carter

‘I sought my father in the world of the black musician, because it contained wisdom, experience, sadness and loneliness. I was not ever interested in the music of boys. From my youngest years, I was interested in the music of men.’ – Eric Clapton

‘Clearly older women and especially older women who have led an active life or elder women who successfully maneuver through their own family life have so much to teach us about sharing, patience, and wisdom.’ – Alice Walker

‘Wisdom is a gift but has nothing to do with age. That was probably the case with me.’ – Ruby Bridges

‘Words of wisdom are spoken by children at least as often as scientists.’ – James Newman

‘There is a universal, intelligent, life force that exists within everyone and everything. It resides within each one of us as a deep wisdom, an inner knowing. We can access this wonderful source of knowledge and wisdom through our intuition, an inner sense that tells us what feels right and true for us at any given moment.’ – Shakti Gawain

‘Mixing one’s wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.’ – Bertolt Brecht

‘An owl is traditionally a symbol of wisdom, so we are neither doves nor hawks but owls, and we are vigilant when others are resting.’ – Urjit Patel

‘If you have the guts to keep making mistakes, your wisdom and intelligence leap forward with huge momentum.’ – Holly Near

‘If I have brought any message today, it is this: Have the courage to have your wisdom regarded as stupidity. Be fools for Christ. And have the courage to suffer the contempt of the sophisticated world.’ – Antonin Scalia

‘The idea of victimage is a dreadful thing, a product of a safe middle-class perspective. What people who are not safe develop is a tragic wisdom, a wisdom that embraces contradiction and seeks a sense of balance rather than going to extremes.’ – Gerald Vizenor

‘What a company’s been earning doesn’t mean anything. What you have to look at is what people think it’s going to earn. If you can see something in two years is going to be entirely different than the conventional wisdom, that’s how you make money.’ – Stanley Druckenmiller

‘Radical common sense is the wisdom gleaned from the past that recognizes the perishable opportunities of the moment. It is the willingness to admit error and the refusal to be deterred by failure.’ – Marilyn Ferguson

‘The first point of wisdom is to discern that which is false; the second, to know that which is true.’ – Lactantius

‘The seven wise men of Greece, so famous for their wisdom all the world over, acquired all that fame, each of them, by a single sentence consisting of two or three words.’ – Robert South

‘I have seen life from the top down and the bottom up. I know how it looks both ways. And I know there is wisdom and that there is hope.’ – L. Ron Hubbard

‘Money can be taken away from you, by the IRS or by pistol. That’s why I always measure riches in terms of wisdom. No one can ever take from you what you know.’ – Juan Gabriel

‘A great memory is never made synonymous with wisdom, any more than a dictionary would be called a treatise.’ – John Henry Newman

‘A lot of people tell me a lot of things about my conduct, my game, my future… but I try to stay away from their words of wisdom. I don’t let it distract me. On the field, you will be facing the ball alone. If you fail, you will the only one to blame. So, you should be the one deciding for yourself.’ – Virat Kohli

‘What has history said of eminence without honor, wealth without wisdom, power and possessions without principle? The answer is reiterated in the overthrow of the mightiest empires of ancient times. Babylon, Persia, Greece, Rome! The four successive, universal powers of the past. What and where are they?’ – Orson F. Whitney

‘Wisdom is a kind of knowledge. It is knowledge of the nature, career, and consequences of human values.’ – Sidney Hook

‘I think we are evolving rapidly into one world culture. It’s certainly one world economy. With billions of people online, I think we’ll appreciate the wisdom in many different traditions as we learn more about them. People were very isolated and didn’t know anything about other religions 100 years ago.’ – Ray Kurzweil

‘Knowledge is not just the preserve of the educated elite. Just because someone has not had a formal education, that does not mean he does not have wisdom and common sense.’ – Vikas Swarup

‘Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself; the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache.’ – Gilbert K. Chesterton

‘It is costly wisdom that is bought by experience.’ – Roger Ascham

‘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.’ – Elena Kagan

‘To know one’s self is wisdom, but not to know one’s neighbors is genius.’ – Minna Antrim

‘For the Holy Ghost blesses us with optimism and wisdom at times of challenge that we simply cannot muster on our own.’ – Sheri L. Dew

‘There is no knowledge, no light, no wisdom that you are in possession of, but what you have received it from some source.’ – Brigham Young

‘The stupidity of people comes from having an answer for everything. The wisdom of the novel comes from having a question for everything.’ – Milan Kundera

‘It is unwise to be too sure of one’s own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.’ – Mahatma Gandhi

‘No one who cooks, cooks alone. Even at her most solitary, a cook in the kitchen is surrounded by generations of cooks past, the advice and menus of cooks present, and the wisdom of cookbook writers.’ – Laurie Colwin

‘There’s a real wisdom to not saying a thing.’ – Willem Dafoe

‘Pessimism is only the name that men of weak nerves give to wisdom.’ – Bernard DeVoto

‘There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.’ – Francis Bacon

‘We are all responsible to Jesus first, and then, under him, to various other persons and offices. Discerning the path of love and obedience when two or more of these submissive relationships collide is a call to humble, Bible-saturated, spiritual wisdom.’ – John Piper

‘Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.’ – Epicurus

‘To think ill of mankind and not wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue.’ – William Hazlitt

‘Practical wisdom is only to be learned in the school of experience. Precepts and instruction are useful so far as they go, but, without the discipline of real life, they remain of the nature of theory only.’ – Samuel Smiles

‘God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other.’ – Reinhold Niebuhr

‘Information is not knowledge, and knowledge is not wisdom. Reading – even browsing – an old book can yield sustenance denied by a database search. Patience is a virtue, gluttony a sin.’ – James Gleick

‘There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.’ – Friedrich Nietzsche

‘It used to be, it is accepted scientific wisdom the Earth is flat, and this heretic named Galileo was branded a denier.’ – Ted Cruz

‘During the long process of history, by relying on our own diligence, courage and wisdom, Chinese people have opened up a good and beautiful home where all ethnic groups live in harmony and fostered an excellent culture that never fades.’ – Xi Jinping

‘It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.’ – Menander

‘I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.’ – Thomas Jefferson

‘Knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows.’ – Alfred North Whitehead

‘We are shallow because we are ‘mayabang,’ ego driven, and do not have the humility to understand that we are only human, much too human to mistake knowledge for wisdom.’ – F. Sionil Jose

‘They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.’ – Confucius

‘I will give you a definition of a proud man: he is a man who has neither vanity nor wisdom one filled with hatreds cannot be vain, neither can he be wise.’ – John Keats

‘Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance.’ – Francis of Assisi

‘I find the fact that billionaires are quoted as if the fact that they are billionaires gives them some kind of wisdom is outrageous.’ – Ben Elton

‘People, my age, people older, people younger, it’s like they look up to me. They listen to my lyrics for wisdom. They listen to my lyrics for like game. They listen to my lyrics for real deal beneficial purposes.’ – Young Dolph

‘A short saying often contains much wisdom.’ – Sophocles

‘At the end of the day, if you’re not spanking your child and instilling in them the ideas of selflessness, servitude, and wisdom, you’re probably looking at a future P. Diddy in the making (maybe even a Keith Olbermann – take your pick).’ – Steven Crowder

‘Good economic policy requires not so much the bravado to implement drastic change as the strength and wisdom to make reasonable trade-offs over the many years it takes to transform a country’s standard of living.’ – Peter Blair Henry

‘Follow your instincts. That’s where true wisdom manifests itself.’ – Oprah Winfrey

‘Both in thought and in feeling, even though time be real, to realise the unimportance of time is the gate of wisdom.’ – Bertrand Russell

‘I acknowledge the privilege of being alive in a human body at this moment, endowed with senses, memories, emotions, thoughts, and the space of mind in its wisdom aspect.’ – Alex Grey

‘Knowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom.’ – Plato

‘As an instrument for practical action, law is responsive to the wisdom of its time, which may be wrong, but it carries forward, sometimes in opposition to this wisdom or passion, a memory of received values.’ – Edward Levi

‘Children also have artistic ability, and there is wisdom in there having it! The more helpless they are, the more instructive are the examples they furnish us; and they must be preserved free of corruption from an early age.’ – Paul Klee

‘Look at anyone’s bookcase at home, no matter how modest, and you’re going to find a book that contains wisdom or ideas or a language that’s at least a thousand years old. And the idea that humans have created a mechanism to time travel, to hurl ideas into the future, it sort of bookends. Books are a time machine.’ – Jonathan Nolan

‘The more I draw and write, the more I realise that accidents are a necessary part of any creative act, much more so than logic or wisdom. Sometimes a mistake is the only way of arriving at an original concept, and the history of successful inventions is full of mishaps, serendipity and unintended results.’ – Shaun Tan

‘Economists often like startling theorems, results which seem to run counter to conventional wisdom.’ – Joseph Stiglitz

‘Wisdom cannot come by railroad or automobile or aeroplane, or be hurried up by telegraph or telephone.’ – John Burroughs

‘What I’ve been able to do with my character, Madea, and the other characters, with the jokes, is use it as an anesthetic to get to the heart and soul of real issues. And what I’ve found on stage over the years is that, while making people laugh, I can drop in pearls of wisdom.’ – Tyler Perry

‘Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.’ – Wallace Stegner

‘Where can we find greater structural clarity than in the wooden buildings of old? Where else can we find such unity of material, construction and form? here, the wisdom of whole generations is stored.’ – Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

‘I believe that ‘passion’ is another word for energy. That’s it. What energizes you? And that – we naturally have a tremendous amount of body wisdom about that, and that every one of us has a internal fuel tank that is either empty or full. And if you’re empty, you feel depleted. If you’re full, you feel energized.’ – Mel Robbins

‘No single person can possess the wisdom to chart our course.’ – Jonathan Schell

‘America’s freedom of religion, and freedom from religion, offers every wisdom tradition an opportunity to address our soul-deep needs: Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, secular humanism, agnosticism and atheism among others.’ – Parker Palmer

‘The wisdom acquired with the passage of time is a useless gift unless you share it.’ – Esther Williams

‘After the knowledge of, and obedience to, the will of God, the next aim must be to know something of His attributes of wisdom, power, and goodness as evidenced by His handiwork.’ – James Prescott Joule

‘If I am fool, it is, at least, a doubting one; and I envy no one the certainty of his self-approved wisdom.’ – Lord Byron

‘Second, this epic tale allows the audience to actually listen to the Native Americans and receive their wisdom. Spielberg conveys the respect for Native Americans that is normally lacking in Western films.’ – Beau Bridges

‘He who is taught to live upon little owes more to his father’s wisdom than he who has a great deal left him does to his father’s care.’ – William Penn

‘I’ll come to you with gifts of knowledge, wisdom and truth.’ – Barry White

‘If you are bitter, you are like a dry leaf that you can just squash, and you can get blown away by the wind. There is much more wisdom in forgiveness.’ – Vusi Mahlasela

‘It is astonishing what force, purity, and wisdom it requires for a human being to keep clear of falsehoods.’ – Margaret Fuller

‘I like to tell people that I have some of the biggest mentors in the world… they just don’t know I exist. Dave Ramsey, Sara Blakely, Oprah, Tony Robbins, Brendon Burchard – I’ve learned everything I know from their wisdom through books, podcasts and conferences.’ – Rachel Hollis

‘Ending poverty calls for humility, honesty, freedom from ideology and refusal to accept cruel simplicities about anyone’s human potential. It requires listening to the wisdom and cutting the nonsense from both the Right and the Left.’ – Donella Meadows

‘Now it is time to turn to an older wisdom that, while respecting material comfort and security as a basic right of all, also recognises that many of the most valuable things in life cannot be measured.’ – Michael D. Higgins

‘It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.’ – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

‘The clouds may drop down titles and estates, and wealth may seek us, but wisdom must be sought.’ – Edward Young

‘The hours of folly are measured by the clock; but of wisdom, no clock can measure.’ – William Blake

‘I’m not an academic philosopher, and don’t agree with the way the universities approach the subject. I’m a philosopher only in the very loose sense of someone interested in wisdom and well-being attained through reason. But I’m as interested in psychoanalysis and art as I am in philosophy.’ – Alain de Botton

‘Sometimes one likes foolish people for their folly, better than wise people for their wisdom.’ – Elizabeth Gaskell

‘A loving heart is the truest wisdom.’ – Charles Dickens

‘That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in another.’ – Adlai Stevenson I

‘Instead of looking at life as a narrowing funnel, we can see it ever widening to choose the things we want to do, to take the wisdom we’ve learned and create something.’ – Liz Carpenter

‘You need to have extraordinary wisdom to be the forerunner.’ – Ma Huateng

‘Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech.’ – Plutarch

‘Enraging liberals is simply one of the more enjoyable side effects of my wisdom.’ – Rush Limbaugh

‘When we looked at the life cycle in our 40s, we looked to old people for wisdom. At 80, though, we look at other 80-year-olds to see who got wise and who not. Lots of old people don’t get wise, but you don’t get wise unless you age.’ – Erik Erikson

‘When I rather guiltily read the books on which the TV series ‘Game Of Thrones’ is based, I was struck by one thing. The whole point of this saga is that ruthlessness pays, that evil generally wins, that justice is non-existent, and utter cynicism the only wisdom. It is the Middle Ages without the saving grace of Christianity.’ – Peter Hitchens

‘Lion sounds that have not grown from the mouse may exude naked power… but cannot convey any wisdom or understanding… The initial steps on the path to courageous speech then are the first tentative steps into the parts of us that cannot speak.’ – David Whyte

‘A man may learn wisdom even from a foe.’ – Aristophanes

‘I am not the first Buddha who came upon Earth, nor shall I be the last. In due time, another Buddha will arise in the world – a Holy One, a supremely enlightened One, endowed with wisdom in conduct, auspicious, knowing the universe, an incomparable leader of men, a master of angels and mortals.’ – Buddha

‘If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner.’ – Omar N. Bradley

‘I have studied many philosophers and many cats. The wisdom of cats is infinitely superior.’ – Hippolyte Taine

‘Without freedom of thought, there can be no such thing as wisdom – and no such thing as public liberty without freedom of speech.’ – Benjamin Franklin

‘The wisdom of crowds works when the crowd is choosing the price of an ox, when there’s a single numeric average. But if it’s a design or something that matters, the decision is made by committee, and that’s crap. You want people and groups who are able to think thoughts before they share.’ – Jaron Lanier

‘Wisdom is important in every man’s life.’ – Rza

‘Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom.’ – Charlie Parker

‘To comprehend the Wisdom of this Injunction the better, and explain the Duty before us, it should be considered, that Government is the only Means by which human Happiness can be attained.’ – Charles Inglis

‘Teach your children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.’ – Walter Scott

‘Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever; no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself; no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself.’ – Lucius Annaeus Seneca

‘Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.’ – Rabindranath Tagore

‘Irony is the gaiety of reflection and the joy of wisdom.’ – Anatole France

‘One of the most beautiful passages of Rousseau is that in the sixth book of Confessions, where he describes the awakening in him of the literary sense. Of such wisdom, the poetic passion, the desire of beauty, the love of art for its own sake, has most.’ – Walter Pater

‘The word philosophy sounds high-minded, but it simply means the love of wisdom. If you love something, you don’t just read about it; you hug it, you mess with it, you play with it, you argue with it.’ – Hugh Jackman

‘I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge.’ – Igor Stravinsky

‘The extreme limit of wisdom, that’s what the public calls madness.’ – Jean Cocteau

‘In order to have wisdom we must have ignorance.’ – Theodore Dreiser

‘People used to grow up in small communities where folk wisdom was passed down. But we don’t live there anymore. We can’t go next door to your aunt and ask her for the answers.’ – Clarissa Pinkola Estes

‘In life, all good things come hard, but wisdom is the hardest to come by.’ – Lucille Ball

‘We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.’ – Stephen Vincent Benet

‘Keep well; that is the half of wisdom and of happiness.’ – Emile Zola

‘The gateways to wisdom and learning are always open, and more and more I am choosing to walk through them. Barriers, blocks, obstacles, and problems are personal teachers giving me the opportunity to move out of the past and into the Totality of Possibilities.’ – Louise L. Hay

‘Lord, bless me with the ability to achieve all that I can, and the wisdom to realize it doesn’t all have to be by tomorrow!’ – William Eardley IV

‘In complete darkness, it is only knowledge and wisdom that separates us.’ – Janet Jackson

‘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.’ – Barack Obama

‘Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.’ – Ralph Waldo Emerson

‘There should be a point to movies. Sure, you’re giving people a diversion from the cold world for a bit, but at the same time, you pass on some facts and rules and maybe a little bit of wisdom.’ – George Lucas

‘The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one’s self a fool; the truest heroism is to resist the doubt; and the profoundest wisdom, to know when it ought to be resisted, and when it be obeyed.’ – Nathaniel Hawthorne

‘Each of us finds his unique vehicle for sharing with others his bit of wisdom.’ – Ram Dass

‘New ideas that fly in the face of conventional wisdom of the day are always greeted with doubt and scorn, even fear.’ – John C. Bogle

‘I went out of my way to play games I didn’t like or find interesting. Those ended up being a lot more informative for me. At home, I have literally thousands of games, and I think of them as pearls of wisdom from my predecessors.’ – Masahiro Sakurai

‘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.’ – Robert Louis Stevenson

‘Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.’ – Lin Yutang

‘The war… was an unnecessary condition of affairs, and might have been avoided if forebearance and wisdom had been practiced on both sides.’ – Robert E. Lee

‘Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.’ – Edmund Burke

‘I love wisdom. And you can never be great at anything unless you love it. Not be in love with it, but love the thing, admire the thing. And it seems that if you love the thing, and you don’t just want to possess it, it will find you.’ – Maya Angelou

‘Mainstream media tend to just mouth the conventional wisdom, to see everything through the filter of right and left.’ – Arianna Huffington

‘We all grow up. Hopefully, we get wiser. Age brings wisdom, and fatherhood changes one’s life completely.’ – Frank Abagnale

‘It has become part of the accepted wisdom to say that the twentieth century was the century of physics and the twenty-first century will be the century of biology.’ – Freeman Dyson

‘Good men by nature, wish to know. I know that many will call this useless work… men who desire nothing but material riches and are absolutely devoid of that of wisdom, which is the food and only true riches of the mind.’ – Leonardo da Vinci

‘We live in a society bloated with data yet starved for wisdom. We’re connected 24/7, yet anxiety, fear, depression and loneliness is at an all-time high. We must course-correct.’ – Elizabeth Kapu’uwailani Lindsey

‘More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.’ – George Eliot

‘The constitutions of Maryland and New York are founded in higher wisdom.’ – Ezra Stiles

‘And I pray thee, loving Jesus, that as Thou hast graciously given me to drink in with delight the words of Thy knowledge, so Thou wouldst mercifully grant me to attain one day to Thee, the fountain of all wisdom and to appear forever before Thy face.’ – Venerable Bede

‘If men possessed wisdom, which stands in the same relation to the form of man as the sight to the eye, they would not cause any injury to themselves or to others; for the knowledge of truth removes hatred and quarrels, and prevents mutual injuries.’ – Maimonides

‘Arianna Huffington has exercised her renowned wisdom to give journalism another boost along the ever busier Internet. Her blog site promises to be an interesting challenge for those of us lucky enough to be invited to participate with our occasional contributions.’ – Walter Cronkite

‘No one has a monopoly on truth, and science continues to advance. Yesterday’s heresies may be tomorrow’s conventional wisdom.’ – Dean Ornish

‘Cultures have long heard wisdom in non-human voices: Apollo, god of music, medicine and knowledge, came to Delphi in the form of a dolphin. But dolphins, which fill the oceans with blipping and chirping, and whales, which mew and caw in ultramarine jazz – a true rhapsody in blue – are hunted to the edge of silence.’ – Jay Griffiths

‘Never accept ultimatums, conventional wisdom, or absolutes.’ – Christopher Reeve

‘The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation, the man of manly character and of wisdom.’ – Plato

‘After many years of great mercy, after tasting of the powers of the world to come, we still are so weak, so foolish; but, oh! when we get away from self to God, there all is truth and purity and holiness, and our heart finds peace, wisdom, completeness, delight, joy, victory.’ – Charles Spurgeon

‘The problem with Google is you have 360 degrees of omnidirectional information on a linear basis, but the algorithms for irony and ambiguity are not there. And those are the algorithms of wisdom.’ – William Hurt

‘The pine stays green in winter… wisdom in hardship.’ – Norman Douglas

‘Wisdom I know is social. She seeks her fellows. But Beauty is jealous, and illy bears the presence of a rival.’ – Thomas Jefferson

‘Rich people without wisdom and learning are but sheep with golden fleeces.’ – Solon

‘It is my earnest hope that all parties across the political spectrum will bear Hong Kong’s long-term interests in mind, apply their political wisdom, and seek a consensus through open and rational communication with people of different views.’ – Carrie Lam

‘Lord, give us the wisdom to utter words that are gentle and tender, for tomorrow we may have to eat them.’ – Mo Udall

‘History is filled with tragic examples of wars that result from diplomatic impasse. Whether in our local communities or in international relations, the skillful use of our communicative capacities to negotiate and resolve differences is the first evidence of human wisdom.’ – Daisaku Ikeda

‘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.’ – James Madison

‘The Gross National Product measures neither our wit nor our courage, neither our wisdom nor our learning, neither our compassion nor our devotion to our country. It measures everything, in short, except that which makes life worthwhile, and it can tell us everything about America – except whether we are proud to be Americans.’ – Robert Kennedy

‘Conventional wisdom tells us we’ll only be happier after a divorce if the marriage itself was a war zone.’ – Ariel Gore

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

‘If you have the insight of non-self, if you have the insight of impermanence, you should make that insight into a concentration that you keep alive throughout the day. Then what you say, what you think, and what you do will then be in the light of that wisdom and you will avoid making mistakes and creating suffering.’ – Thich Nhat Hanh

‘And it is no less true, that personal security and private property rest entirely upon the wisdom, the stability, and the integrity of the courts of justice.’ – Joseph Story

‘Wisdom, prudence, forethought, these are essential. But not second to these that noble courage which adventures the right, and leaves the consequences to God.’ – Robert Dale Owen

‘If you were to offer a thirsty man all wisdom, you would not please him more than if you gave him a drink.’ – Sophocles

‘What if Barack Obama established a Presidential Advisory Committee that would meet once every couple of months, bringing together the former presidents for a conference in order to seek their collective wisdom? There is a wealth of experience in former presidents that generally goes untapped.’ – Tony Campolo

‘Robots have already surpassed human beings in calculation and memory, but I have no doubt that the time will come when they will surpass in wisdom as well.’ – Masayoshi Son

‘Science investigates; religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power; religion gives man wisdom which is control.’ – Martin Luther King, Jr.

‘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.’ – Aristotle

‘He whose wisdom cannot help him, gets no good from being wise.’ – Quintus Ennius

‘The time of wisdom cannot be measured, and for me, wisdom is the garden. There is no time in the garden.’ – W. S. Merwin

‘The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.’ – Michel de Montaigne

‘Whatever position I occupied, it was the result of colleagues – of my comrades in the movement – who had decided in their wisdom to use me for the purpose of focusing the attention of the country and the international community on me.’ – Nelson Mandela

‘Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.’ – Lactantius

‘One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know.’ – John Kenneth Galbraith

‘Wisdom is that apprehension of heavenly things to which the spirit rises through love.’ – Honore de Balzac

‘Spending two years on my uncle’s ranch in Montana as a young man gave me the wisdom and the thrust to do westerns.’ – Robert Duvall

‘We all admire the wisdom of people who come to us for advice.’ – Arthur Helps

‘The novelist teaches the reader to comprehend the world as a question. There is wisdom and tolerance in that attitude. In a world built on sacrosanct certainties the novel is dead.’ – Milan Kundera

‘Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain.’ – Khalil Gibran

‘The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.’ – Albert Einstein

‘The Relation we bear to the Wisdom of the Father, the Son of His Love, gives us indeed a dignity which otherwise we have no pretence to. It makes us something, something considerable even in God’s Eyes.’ – Mary Astell

‘Both old and young alike ought to seek wisdom: the former in order that, as age comes over him, he may be young in good things because of the grace of what has been, and the latter in order that, while he is young, he may at the same time be old, because he has no fear of the things which are to come.’ – Epicurus

‘A cardinal rule in budgeting and saving is to pay yourself first. Once your paycheck hits your account, wisdom has it that you should move some amount to savings even before you pay the bills.’ – John Rampton

‘Come, come, leave business to idlers, and wisdom to fools: they have need of ’em: wit be my faculty, and pleasure my occupation, and let father Time shake his glass.’ – William Congreve

‘Wisdom comes from within. Knowledge is acquired and can sometimes put a screen on your wisdom.’ – A. R. Rahman

‘We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it.’ – Francois de La Rochefoucauld

‘Even by common wisdom, there seem to be both people and objects in my dream that are outside myself, but clearly they were created in myself and are part of me, they are mental constructs in my own brain.’ – Ray Kurzweil

‘There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives.’ – Cyril Connolly

‘To keep your secret is wisdom; but to expect others to keep it is folly.’ – Samuel Johnson

‘One part of wisdom is knowing what you don’t need anymore and letting it go.’ – Jane Fonda

‘They whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed.’ – William Cowper

‘Many spiritual teachers – in Buddhism, in Islam – have talked about first-hand experience of the world as an important part of the path to wisdom, to enlightenment.’ – bell hooks

‘Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience.’ – H. L. Mencken

‘The final wisdom of life requires not the annulment of incongruity but the achievement of serenity within and above it.’ – Reinhold Niebuhr

‘Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future.’ – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

‘Holy wisdom confounds Satan and all his wickednesses.’ – Francis of Assisi

‘For myself, I think that those who cultivate wisdom and believe themselves able to instruct their fellow-citizens as to their interests are least likely to become partisans of violence. They are too well aware that to violence attach enmities and dangers, whereas results as good may be obtained by persuasion safely and amicably.’ – Xenophon

‘The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all other woes of mankind, is wisdom. Teach a man to read and write, and you have put into his hands the great keys of the wisdom box. But it is quite another thing to open the box.’ – Thomas Huxley

‘Unrestrained zeal to make the world better could make it worse. Promoting democracy must be undertaken with humility, care, and wisdom.’ – Richard N. Haass

‘The thing that we possess, that machines don’t, is the ability to exhibit wisdom.’ – Herbie Hancock

‘Let my skin and sinews and bones dry up, together with all the flesh and blood of my body! I welcome it! But I will not move from this spot until I have attained the supreme and final wisdom.’ – Buddha

‘Because of my upbringing, I believe in things like limited government, fiscal responsibility and personal accountability. I believe in the wisdom of our founders and the sanctity of our Constitution.’ – John Thune

‘What is the price of experience? Do men buy it for a song? Or wisdom for a dance in the street? No, it is bought with the price of all the man hath, his house, his wife, his children.’ – William Blake

‘An election is a collective call to wisdom and a collective call to action. It represents a renewal and a recommitment to the goals and hopes of a shared and egalitarian society. It represents the diverse and yet singular urges of the people and the Republic of India. This makes the very act of voting a sacred act.’ – Ram Nath Kovind

‘Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.’ – Sigmund Freud

‘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.’ – Tom Peters

‘War involves in its progress such a train of unforeseen circumstances that no human wisdom can calculate the end; it has but one thing certain, and that is to increase taxes.’ – Thomas Paine

‘The current wisdom now is that if the three networks are covering the news the same way the difference is the anchor people. I think that won’t be true in the future.’ – Roone Arledge

‘We all have within us a deep wisdom, but sometimes we don’t know we have it.’ – Shakti Gawain

‘If we have built on the fragile cornerstones of human wisdom, pride, and conditional love, things may look good for a while, but a weak foundation causes collapse when storms hit.’ – Charles Stanley

‘I do think that the standard media is controlled by the conventional wisdom about global warming. We’ve come to believe – from reading a lot of articles and talking to a lot of scientists – that there’s another side to be heard.’ – Steven Levitt

‘We can’t really digest food unless there’s hunger. So we can’t really assimilate spiritual wisdom unless we feel the need for it.’ – Radhanath Swami

‘I probably wouldn’t be a songwriter if I didn’t grow up the way I did. It was difficult and it was at times very scary to grow up in a household so unsettled and at times very violent. But, it also, I guess it earned me a sort of wisdom at a young age that’s served me well.’ – Ray LaMontagne

‘Lessons of wisdom have the most power over us when they capture the heart through the groundwork of a story, which engages the passions.’ – Laurence Sterne

‘Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.’ – Francis Quarles

‘Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.’ – Plautus

‘I look forward to a great future for America – a future in which our country will match its military strength with our moral restraint, its wealth with our wisdom, its power with our purpose.’ – John F. Kennedy

‘A judge’s role is to ensure that the legislature remains within the limits of its assigned authority under the Constitution. Judges have no authority to second-guess the wisdom of the value judgments and policy choices the legislature has made.’ – Paul Watford

‘In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause.’ – George Eliot

‘The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living, which are to be desired when dying.’ – Norman Douglas

‘I think we do need to try to not just rely on the central bank to, in its wisdom, adjust interest rates, but allow for people to avoid being exposed to inflation risk.’ – Robert J. Shiller

‘There are three methods to gaining wisdom. The first is reflection, which is the highest. The second is limitation, which is the easiest. The third is experience, which is the bitterest.’ – Confucius

‘F. Lee Bailey had been an inspiration to me. It was my desire to have him behind the scenes, to rely on his great wisdom and his brainpower, but I did not feel he should be in the courtroom.’ – Robert Shapiro

‘Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.’ – Marcus Tullius Cicero

‘Women are stronger than men – they do not die of wisdom.’ – James Stephens

‘Putting is like wisdom – partly a natural gift and partly the accumulation of experience.’ – Arnold Palmer

‘So confident am I in the intentions, as well as wisdom, of the government, that I shall always be satisfied that what is not done, either cannot, or ought not to be done.’ – Thomas Jefferson

‘I don’t see the wisdom in modern politicians that I once saw in men like Dean Acheson, David Bruce, or George Marshall. In my day, the northeastern establishment dominated foreign policy formulation, but the composition and distribution of our population is very different today.’ – Henry Kissinger

‘When you get older, you learn certain life lessons. You apply that wisdom, and suddenly you say, ‘Hey, I’ve got a new lease on this thing. So let’s go.” – Robert Redford

‘Wisdom and goodness are twin-born, one heart must hold both sisters, never seen apart.’ – William Dean Howells

‘Our great power does not mean we can do whatever we want whenever we want, nor should we assume we have all the wisdom and knowledge necessary to succeed.’ – John McCain

”Focusing’ is no conventional repackaging of self-help wisdom. It is at once a manual and a philosophy. It talks about the body’s wisdom, the steps of the focusing technique, how to discover the richness in others by learning to listen.’ – Marilyn Ferguson

‘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.’ – Socrates

‘For most of us, wisdom is acquired in the thicket of experience and usually meets us somewhere along the way if we live long enough. But sooner is better than later.’ – H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

‘Success is a wonderful thing, but it tends not to be the sort of experience that we learn from. We enjoy it; perhaps we even deserve it. But we don’t acquire wisdom from it.’ – Timothy Noah

‘Cunning… is but the low mimic of wisdom.’ – Plato

‘It isn’t right to judge strength as better than good wisdom.’ – Xenophanes

‘Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought – asleep. When we are weary of the living, we may repair to the dead, who have nothing of peevishness, pride, or design in their conversation.’ – William Butler Yeats

‘Wisdom is knowing when you can’t be wise.’ – Paul Engle

‘For the subtlest folly proceeds from the subtlest wisdom.’ – John Webster

‘Wisdom alone is true ambition’s aim, wisdom is the source of virtue and of fame; obtained with labour, for mankind employed, and then, when most you share it, best enjoyed.’ – Alfred North Whitehead

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

‘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.’ – Lucius Annaeus Seneca

‘I always prayed that God would give me the wisdom and the vision to do the things on this earth that I was supposed to do to express His life and love and His will.’ – Billy Ray Cyrus

‘Wisdom comes out of dialogue so you have to develop the capacity to expose your own ignorance in order that they may discover their own wisdom.’ – John B. Goodenough

‘Writing is no dying art form in America because most published writers here accept the wisdom and the necessity of encouraging the talent that follows in their footsteps.’ – Elizabeth George

‘The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work.’ – Ralph Waldo Emerson

‘If to live is to progress, if you are lucky, from foolishness to wisdom, then to write novels is to broadcast the various stages of your foolishness.’ – Jane Smiley

‘Though sages may pour out their wisdom’s treasure, there is no sterner moralist than pleasure.’ – Lord Byron

‘There is something about a mortarboard that gives otherwise sane and normal people the overwhelming urge to burden you with advice. Some of them cannot help themselves. They were asked to do it by a committee. But one can only take so many pieces of wisdom before they all start to blur together.’ – Alexandra Petri

‘If the highest things are unknowable, then the highest capacity or virtue of man cannot be theoretical wisdom.’ – Leo Strauss

‘Contemplation and wisdom are highest achievements and man is not totally at home with them.’ – Gabriel Marcel

‘After a gig I always head back to the hotel, remembering granny’s words of wisdom. I cancel the late-night pizza and watch the Jonathan Ross show instead.’ – Jimmy Carr

‘Strength and wisdom are not opposing values.’ – William J. Clinton

‘You can only make sense of the online world by going offline and by getting the wisdom and emotional clarity to know how to make the best use of the Internet.’ – Pico Iyer

‘Whatever one thinks of the wisdom of building a mosque near Ground Zero, this controversy now affords us an immense opportunity to examine who we are as a people. It provides us with the opportunity to get back to our foundational ideals, which have always stood as a beacon for the rest of the world.’ – Hamza Yusuf

‘All free governments are managed by the combined wisdom and folly of the people.’ – James A. Garfield

‘Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects. The best public measures are therefore seldom adopted from previous wisdom, but forced by the occasion.’ – Benjamin Franklin

‘I reject most conventional wisdom.’ – Rush Limbaugh

‘In science, as in art, and, as I believe, in every other sphere of human activity, there may be wisdom in a multitude of counsellors, but it is only in one or two of them.’ – Thomas Huxley

‘Just the simple act of sharing wisdom is something that many parents have left to society to do; however, that is not what God teaches in His word.’ – Monica Johnson

‘To think the world therefore a general Bedlam, or place of madmen, and oneself a physician, is the most necessary point of present wisdom: an important imagination, and the way to happiness.’ – Thomas Traherne

‘Big money is not a good thing for a little soul: it will only ensnare his feet, and he will fall to his ruin. Wealth is safe only for those who have a wealth of wisdom.’ – Edwin Markham

‘The marvel of the Bhagavad-Gita is its truly beautiful revelation of life’s wisdom which enables philosophy to blossom into religion.’ – Hermann Hesse

‘Wisdom has never made a bigot, but learning has.’ – Josh Billings

‘Being a philosopher is to think, seek wisdom, and have principles that guide and influence what you do. It’s to give meaning to things, find your way in the world, believe that in the end, in every instance, good will overcome evil, even if there’s a bit of suffering along the way.’ – Andrea Pirlo

‘Discipline is wisdom and vice versa.’ – M. Scott Peck

‘The woods were a boon; all too often, the forest offered danger and mystery. Yet it could be liberating. If you entered that wild place on its own terms, you might be accorded wisdom.’ – John Burnside

‘Because in the school of the Spirit man learns wisdom through humility, knowledge by forgetting, how to speak by silence, how to live by dying.’ – Johannes Tauler

‘The seat of knowledge is in the head; of wisdom, in the heart. We are sure to judge wrong, if we do not feel right.’ – William Hazlitt

‘Experience is knowledge; but knowledge, when it is sought only as a material resource, is not always a blessing. Experience is wisdom; but wisdom, with those who lack vision, is not always power. Experience is tolerance; but tolerance, when it is induced by apathy, is not in the least a virtue.’ – Ameen Rihani

‘To light one candle to God and another to the Devil is the principle of wisdom.’ – Jose Bergamin

‘I quite like the idea – just as an abstract idea – of 12 people’s collective life experience and wisdom being this formidable thing. People say juries can be led – I think 12 people from different backgrounds, different races, different genders, different ages, it’s hard to hoodwink.’ – Peter Morgan

‘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.’ – Giovanni Pico della Mirandola

‘The ‘wisdom of the crowds’ is the most ridiculous statement I’ve heard in my life. Crowds are dumb.’ – Drew Curtis

‘Along with success comes a reputation for wisdom.’ – Euripides

‘For all my education, accomplishments, and so called ‘wisdom’… I can’t fathom my own heart.’ – Michael Caine

‘As you walk in God’s divine wisdom, you will surely begin to see a greater measure of victory and good success in your life.’ – Joseph Prince

‘Wisdom is humble that he knows no more.’ – William Cowper

‘The experience gathered from books, though often valuable, is but the nature of learning; whereas the experience gained from actual life is one of the nature of wisdom.’ – Samuel Smiles

‘Remarkable contributions are typically spawned by a passionate commitment to transcendent values such as beauty, truth, wisdom, justice, charity, fidelity, joy, courage and honor.’ – Gary Hamel

‘Rightly defined philosophy is simply the love of wisdom.’ – Marcus Tullius Cicero

‘In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom and unwisdom; we have to say, Like People like Government.’ – Thomas Carlyle

‘India is known for its sobriety and wisdom, balanced and sensible thinking. We need strong institutions and we need good governance in the country.’ – Pratibha Patil

‘We must learn from the sermons of Christ, the wisdom of Laotzu, the teachings of Buddha.’ – Charles Lindbergh

‘The American people voted for a president, Donald Trump, who’s very tough, very strong, very aggressive on terrorism, but at the same time smart. At the same time sophisticated. At the same time, heeding the wisdom of our founders who warned about entangling foreign engagement.’ – Stephen Miller

‘Who in their infinite wisdom decreed that Little League uniforms be white? Certainly not a mother.’ – Erma Bombeck

‘You can practice to attain knowledge, but you can’t practice to attain wisdom.’ – Herbie Hancock

‘However glorious an action in itself, it ought not to pass for great if it be not the effect of wisdom and intention.’ – Francois de La Rochefoucauld

‘Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom.’ – Ralph Waldo Emerson

‘You can only learn so much from books. You can only learn so much from education. Ultimately, it is the wisdom of God that will carry you through in the toughest situations of life.’ – Ravi Zacharias

‘I know that inner wisdom is more precious than wealth. The more you spend it, the more you gain.’ – Oprah Winfrey

‘In societies where mature workers are respected and where their wisdom is respected, everybody benefits. Workers are more engaged and productive. Their health is better. They live longer.’ – Deepak Chopra

‘Much wisdom often goes with fewest words.’ – Sophocles

‘The philosophies of one age have become the absurdities of the next, and the foolishness of yesterday has become the wisdom of tomorrow.’ – William Osler

‘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.’ – Ray Lewis

‘Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way.’ – Sophocles

‘We do not sit as a superlegislature to weigh the wisdom of legislation.’ – William O. Douglas

‘Surely, God on high has not refused to give us enough wisdom to find ways to bring us an improvement in relations between the two great nations on earth.’ – Mikhail Gorbachev

‘There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic: a man’s own observation what he finds good of and what he finds hurt of is the best physic to preserve health.’ – Francis Bacon

‘Purity engenders Wisdom, Passion avarice, and Ignorance folly, infatuation and darkness.’ – Cyril Connolly

‘What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes?’ – Norman Douglas

‘Books give not wisdom where none was before. But where some is, there reading makes it more.’ – Elizabeth Hardwick

‘Central banks don’t have divine wisdom. They try to do the best analysis they can and must be prepared to stand or fall by the quality of that analysis.’ – Mary Kay Ash

‘The ultimate wisdom which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed. There it lies, the simplest fact of the universe and at the same time the one which calls faith rather than reason.’ – Hal Borland

‘Silence and reserve will give anyone a reputation for wisdom.’ – Myrtle Reed

‘Who knows for what we live, and struggle, and die? Wise men write many books, in words too hard to understand. But this, the purpose of our lives, the end of all our struggle, is beyond all human wisdom.’ – Alan Paton

‘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.’ – Archibald MacLeish

‘There is this difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man, really is so; but he that thinks himself the wisest, is generally the greatest fool.’ – Charles Caleb Colton

‘We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already.’ – Georg C. Lichtenberg

‘Books should to one of these fours ends conduce, for wisdom, piety, delight, or use.’ – John Denham

‘Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men; but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass.’ – Joseph Addison

‘I am thinking of taking a fifth wife. Why not? Solomon had a thousand wives and he is a synonym for wisdom.’ – John Barrymore

‘What we call wisdom is the result of all the wisdom of past ages. Our best institutions are like young trees growing upon the roots of the old trunks that have crumbled away.’ – Henry Ward Beecher

‘The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.’ – Solomon Ibn Gabirol

‘Man is wise and constantly in quest of more wisdom; but the ultimate wisdom, which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed. There it lies, the simplest fact of the universe and at the same time the one which calls forth faith rather than reason.’ – Hal Borland

‘Full of wisdom are the ordinations of fate.’ – Friedrich Schiller

‘They would need to be already wise, in order to love wisdom.’ – Friedrich Schiller

‘Wisdom and understanding can only become the possession of individual men by travelling the old road of observation, attention, perseverance, and industry.’ – Samuel Smiles

‘Moderation is the inseparable companion of wisdom, but with it genius has not even a nodding acquaintance.’ – Charles Caleb Colton

‘Wisdom prepares for the worst, but folly leaves the worst for the day when it comes.’ – Richard Cecil

‘Wisdom is knowledge which has become a part of one’s being.’ – Orison Swett Marden

‘Education makes us more stupid than the brutes. A thousand voices call to us on every hand, but our ears are stopped with wisdom.’ – Jean Giraudoux

‘It is not from reason that justice springs, but goodness is born of wisdom.’ – Maurice Maeterlinck

‘Every speaker has a mouth; An arrangement rather neat. Sometimes it’s filled with wisdom. Sometimes it’s filled with feet.’ – Robert Orben

‘Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.’ – Octavio Paz

‘The plan was criticized by some retired military officers embedded in TV studios. But with every advance by our coalition forces, the wisdom of that plan becomes more apparent.’ – Dick Cheney

‘Much of the wisdom of one age, is the folly of the next.’ – Charles Simmons

‘Memory is not wisdom; idiots can by rote repeat volumes. Yet what is wisdom without memory?’ – Martin Farquhar Tupper

‘The Divine wisdom has given us prayer, not as a means whereby to obtain the good things of earth, but as a means whereby we learn to do without them; not as a means whereby we escape evil, but as a means whereby we become strong to meet it.’ – Frederick William Robertson

‘Courage is always the surest wisdom.’ – Wilfred Grenfell

‘One reason the human race has such a low opinion of itself is that it gets so much of its wisdom from writers.’ – Wilfrid Sheed

‘Even wisdom has to yield to self-interest.’ – Pindar

‘This land, which we have watered with our tears and our blood, is now our mother country, and we are well satisfied to stay where wisdom abounds and gospel is free.’ – Richard V. Allen

‘Beauty, the eternal Spouse of the Wisdom of God and Angel of his Presence thru’ all creation.’ – Robert Bridges

‘Evil can be a teacher, if you look at the wisdom of its negative power.’ – Tom Brown, Jr.

‘Your law may be perfect, your knowledge of human affairs may be such as to enable you to apply it with wisdom and skill, and yet without individual acquaintance with men, their haunts and habits, the pursuit of the profession becomes difficult, slow, and expensive.’ – William Dunbar

‘To keep your secret is wisdom; to expect others to keep it is folly.’ – William Samuel Johnson

‘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.’ – Larry Merchant

‘Without wisdom, the future has no meaning, no valuable purpose.’ – Herbie Hancock

‘And, if we have any evidence that the wisdom which formed the plan is in the man, we have the very same evidence, that the power which executed it is in him also.’ – Thomas Reid

‘Every indication of wisdom, taken from the effect, is equally an indication of power to execute what wisdom planned.’ – Thomas Reid

‘Be there a will, and wisdom finds a way.’ – George Crabbe

‘Dr. Johnson has said that the chief glory of a country arises from its authors. But then that is only as they are oracles of wisdom; unless they teach virtue, they are more worthy of a halter than of the laurel.’ – Jane Porter

‘You want people walking away from the conversation with some kernel of wisdom or some kind of impact.’ – Harry Dean Stanton

‘The result showed the wisdom of your orders.’ – John Bigelow

‘In regard of the rich grace and wisdom of his love toward his people; for who sees not, but that it is a curse to be unready as these foolish virgins, who were therefore shut out.’ – Thomas Shepard

‘I think in conventional magazine wisdom, you need to have a redesign every decade or so.’ – Timothy White

‘As great as Ed is, the wisdom out here is that he can’t carry a movie. They’ll pay him $3 million to be the second banana in Julia Roberts things. But they won’t put up $3 million for an Ed Harris movie.’ – George A. Romero

‘I am not one who was born in the custody of wisdom; I am one who is fond of olden times and intense in quest of the sacred knowing of the ancients.’ – Gustave Courbet

‘I have sympathy for young people, for their growing pains, but I balk when these growing pains are pushed into the foreground, when you make these young people the only vehicles of life’s wisdom.’ – Wislawa Szymborska

‘Now all the knowledge and wisdom that is in creatures, whether angels or men, is nothing else but a participation of that one eternal, immutable and increased wisdom of God.’ – Ralph Cudworth

‘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.’ – Sam Mendes

‘I chose Sony Classics, not just because of their practical experience, not just because of their wisdom in marketing, but mainly because of their integrity.’ – Arthur Cohn

‘It is now conventional wisdom that Americans do not care why we went to war in Iraq, that it is enough that the world is better off without Saddam Hussein.’ – Adam Schiff

‘Through mutual understanding, sincerity and goodwill, and with great wisdom and broad views, the leaders on both sides should jointly initiate new opportunities for peace, stability, cooperation and mutual benefit.’ – Chen Shui-bian

‘I always told, Sandra Bullock was my student when she was younger, I always told her it’s important that we hold on to our insecurity, the wisdom of insecurity.’ – Sally Kirkland

‘But the law of God came from heaven indeed. God wrote it with his finger, it is the fountain of all wisdom, and therefore shall it continue for ever, and never have an end.’ – John Jewel

‘In justice to human society it may perhaps be said of almost all the polities and civil institutions in the world, however imperfect, that they have been founded in and carried on with very considerable wisdom.’ – Ezra Stiles

‘Any successful nominee should possess both the temperament to interpret the law and the wisdom to do so fairly. The next Supreme Court Justice should have a record of protecting individual rights and a strong willingness to put aside any political agenda.’ – Bennie Thompson

‘Conventional wisdom holds that setting a timetable for getting American troops out of Iraq would be a mistake.’ – Nick Clooney

‘As I visited the various neighborhoods in the campaign, I learned fast that it’s a mistake to think that all of the wisdom and possible solutions to our problems are available only in this building.’ – Jane Byrne

‘Our bodies are at once the receiving and transmitting stations for life itself. It is the highest wisdom to recognize this fact and train our bodies to render them sensitive and responsive to nature. art and religion.’ – Ruth St. Denis

‘A man of strength and wisdom, John Paul became an inspiration to generations of both Catholics and non-Catholics throughout the world by encouraging freedom, promoting peace and respecting all faiths.’ – Greg Walden

‘Pain is the doorway to wisdom and to truth.’ – Keith Miller

‘I’m not a money manager, but I can tell you what the conventional wisdom is. The younger you are, the more risk you can take on.’ – Maria Bartiromo

‘If they can prove that I am wrong by that time, I will give it up to their wisdom, but not after to any one’s judgment, till I see the end of another year; for the Lord will begin with a new century; and I will see what he will do, before I will hearken to any man’s judgment.’ – Joanna Southcott

‘This is perhaps the most profound meaning of the book of Job, the best example of wisdom.’ – Paul Ricoeur

‘Wisdom finds its literary expression in wisdom literature.’ – Paul Ricoeur

‘And when the world is created, it is created in such a way that those eternal objects of God’s loving wisdom become actualities – interacting with one another, relating to God in the finite realm.’ – Rowan Williams

‘They are few in the midst of an overwhelming mass of brute force, and their submission is wisdom; but for a nation like England to submit to be robbed by any invader who chooses to visit her shores seemed to me to be nonsense.’ – George Combe

‘While many of us never knew Ronald Reagan personally, we felt close to him because we shared his lighthearted sense of humor, admired his uncommon virtue, and were moved by his remarkable wisdom.’ – Randy Forbes

‘To suppose more than one supreme Source of infinite wisdom, power, and all perfections, is to assert that there is no supreme Being in existence.’ – Adam Clarke

‘We have heeded no wisdom offering guidance.’ – Dora Russell

‘I have tried at every point to seek God’s wisdom on the decisions I made, and I made it my business to speak up on behalf of the things God tells us are important to Him.’ – Jesse Helms

‘It’s very hard to know what wisdom is.’ – James Hillman

‘Back of every mistaken venture and defeat is the laughter of wisdom, if you listen.’ – Carl Sandburg

‘Theology in general seems to me a substitution of human ingenuity for divine wisdom.’ – Julia Ward Howe

‘I have no agenda except to be funny. Neither I or the writers profess to offer any worldly wisdom.’ – Julia Louis-Dreyfus

‘This fear of the Lord is indeed the beginning of wisdom. This consciousness of sin is the straight pathway to heaven.’ – Joseph Barber Lightfoot

‘Your aim will be knowledge and wisdom, not the reflected glamour of fame.’ – Abbott L. Lowell

‘But the Wisdom of God, which is His only-begotten Son, being in all respects incapable of change or alteration, and every good quality in Him being essential, and such as cannot be changed and converted, His glory is therefore declared to be pure and sincere.’ – Origen

‘Many people have their reputations as reporters and analysts because they are on television, batting around conventional wisdom. A lot of these people have never reported a story.’ – Bob Woodward

‘If God had sufficient wisdom and power to construct such a beautiful world as this, then we must admit that his wisdom and power are immeasurably greater than that of man, and hence he is qualified to reign as king.’ – Orson Pratt

‘We learned in World War II that no single nation holds a monopoly on wisdom, morality or right to power, but that we must fight for the weak and promote democracy.’ – Joe Baca

‘True wisdom listens more, talks less and can get along with all types of people.’ – Kiana Tom

‘As far as feeling freedom in my career now versus five years ago… I think if I feel any more free it’s simply because of the experiences that I’ve had, and the wisdom I’ve accumulated from that time.’ – Mary Chapin Carpenter

‘I do interviews because it’s a chance to be myself. I sometimes wonder what I could have to say that would be of any interest. I don’t have any great wisdom.’ – Parker Stevenson

‘The Divine of the Lord in heaven is love, for the reason that love is receptive of all things of heaven, such as peace, intelligence, wisdom and happiness.’ – Emanuel Swedenborg

‘In garden arrangement, as in all other kinds of decorative work, one has not only to acquire a knowledge of what to do, but also to gain some wisdom in perceiving what it is well to let alone.’ – Gertrude Jekyll

‘I find that to be a fool as to worldly wisdom, and to commit my cause to God, not fearing to offend men, who take offence at the simplicity of truth, is the only way to remain unmoved at the sentiments of others.’ – John Woolman

‘A wholesome oblivion of one’s neighbours is the beginning of wisdom.’ – Richard Le Gallienne

‘This ceremony and the intellectual aura associated with the Nobel Prizes have grown from the wisdom of a practical chemist who wrote a remarkable will.’ – Stanford Moore

‘However, I must not indulge in homespun wisdom here before so distinguished an assembly, especially as I am to be followed by a representative of science.’ – Knut Hamsun

‘God in His wisdom has decided that He will reward no works but His own.’ – Johannes Tauler

‘In particular, for younger researchers on whom the future of mankind may depend. We believe that they are working with all the scientific wisdom at their disposal for the preservation of the inheritance of the earth and for the lasting survival of mankind.’ – Kenichi Fukui

‘After all my possessions had been burned, God gave me the wisdom to return to Jerusalem.’ – Shmuel Yosef Agnon

‘Your art kind of changes as you get older, by nature of the fact that you’re hopefully gaining wisdom and you’re starting to watch things with a better overview.’ – Sheryl Crow

‘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.’ – Patricia Richardson

‘The greater the step forward in knowledge, the greater is the one taken backward in search of wisdom.’ – Stephen Gardiner

‘Nobility of spirit has more to do with simplicity than ostentation, wisdom rather than wealth, commitment rather than ambition.’ – Riccardo Muti

‘I covered my face because they had taken my wisdom teeth out.’ – Josh Brolin

‘It may be assumed as an axiom that Providence has never gifted any political party with all of political wisdom or blinded it with all of political folly.’ – John George Nicolay

‘I continue to believe, contrary to the given wisdom, that it’s more interesting to have an album – or, indeed, an individual song – which has variety rather than homogeneity.’ – Peter Hammill

‘I’ve always shied away from conventional wisdom, though I know the power of it.’ – Peter Jennings

‘The left has come to regard common sense – the traditional wisdom and folkways of the community – as an obstacle to progress and enlightenment.’ – Christopher Lasch

‘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.’ – Giovanni Pico della Mirandola

‘The most excellent and divine counsel, the best and most profitable advertisement of all others, but the least practiced, is to study and learn how to know ourselves. This is the foundation of wisdom and the highway to whatever is good.’ – Pierre Charron

‘Some wisdom you must learn from one who’s wise.’ – Euripides

‘Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.’ – Herbert Hoover

‘The wisdom of age: don’t stop walking.’ – Mason Cooley

‘Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.’ – Will Durant

‘Wisdom is keeping a sense of fallibility of all our views and opinions.’ – Gerald Brenan

‘The weak have remedies, the wise have joys; superior wisdom is superior bliss.’ – Edward Young

‘Doubt is the vestibule through which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom.’ – Charles Caleb Colton

‘In the frank expression of conflicting opinions lies the greatest promise of wisdom in governmental action.’ – Louis D. Brandeis

‘Science is always discovering odd scraps of magical wisdom and making a tremendous fuss about its cleverness.’ – Aleister Crowley

‘Knowledge is the consequence of time, and multitude of days are fittest to teach wisdom.’ – Jeremy Collier

‘There is a trade off – as you grow older you gain wisdom but you lose spontaneity.’ – Kenny Rogers

‘Novels are the Socratic dialogues of our time. Practical wisdom fled from school wisdom into this liberal form.’ – Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

‘Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun.’ – Franz Grillparzer

‘No man is the wiser for his learning; it may administer matter to work in, or objects to work upon; but wit and wisdom are born with a man.’ – John Selden

‘This, and this alone, is Christianity, a universal holiness in every part of life, a heavenly wisdom in all our actions, not conforming to the spirit and temper of the world but turning all worldly enjoyments into means of piety and devotion to God.’ – William Law

‘Whether the aim is in heaven or on earth, wisdom or wealth, the essential condition of its pursuit and attainment is always security and order.’ – Johan Huizinga

‘At sixty, I know little more about wisdom than I did at thirty, but I know a great deal more about folly.’ – Mason Cooley

‘Ignorance and bungling with love are better than wisdom and skill without.’ – Henry David Thoreau

‘Sciences may be learned by rote, but wisdom not.’ – Laurence Sterne

‘No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool. Writers, alas, have to be fools in public, while the rest of the human race can cover its tracks.’ – Erica Jong

‘It is good even for old men to learn wisdom.’ – Aeschylus

‘The hunger for facile wisdom is the root of all false philosophy.’ – George Santayana

‘Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency.’ – John Updike

‘It is almost everywhere the case that soon after it is begotten the greater part of human wisdom is laid to rest in repositories.’ – Georg C. Lichtenberg

‘People always blame the girl; she should have said no. A monosyllable, but conventional wisdom has always been that boys can’t manage it.’ – Anna Quindlen

‘Raising children is an incredibly hard and risky business in which no cumulative wisdom is gained: each generation repeats the mistakes the previous one made.’ – Bill Cosby

‘The Founding Fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents. So they provided jails called schools, equipped with tortures called an education.’ – John Updike

‘Remembering is painful, it’s difficult, but it can be inspiring and it can give wisdom.’ – Paul Greengrass

‘It may almost be a question whether such wisdom as many of us have in our mature years has not come from the dying out of the power of temptation, rather than as the results of thought and resolution.’ – Anthony Trollope

‘Although it has been said by men of more wit than wisdom, and perhaps more malice than either, that women are naturally incapable of acting prudently, or that they are necessarily determined to folly, I must by no means grant it.’ – Mary Astell

‘Unhappy is that Grandeur which makes us too great to be good; and that Wit which sets us at a distance from true Wisdom.’ – Mary Astell

‘What’s different now is that while political leaders used to give talking points to talk radio, now talk-radio hosts are giving talking points to political leaders. It’s all part of the suffocating spin cycle we’re in. In media, politics and publishing, the conventional wisdom is to play to this base.’ – John Avlon

‘My government, you can be assured, will be less focused on personalities. It is about treating people with respect. I think complaining about the community not being able to see the wisdom of our ideas is the wrong approach.’ – Jay Weatherill

‘Ask Elizabeth is a community of voices, it’s not me standing on a podium telling people how to run their lives, it’s girls helping each other sharing their wisdom and advice and I create a space for them to do it.’ – Elizabeth Berkley

‘As a parent and a citizen, I’ll take a Bill Gates (or Warren Buffett) over Steve Jobs every time. If we must have billionaires, better they should ignore Jobs’s example and instead embrace the morality and wisdom of the great industrialist-philanthropist Andrew Carnegie.’ – Eric Alterman

‘If an idea is indeed sensible, it will eventually become just part of the accepted wisdom.’ – Nigel Farage

‘My mother is a great source of advice and wisdom and consolation for me.’ – Katherine Heigl

‘What I lack in energy, I have in wisdom.’ – Marcia Cross

‘I see a wiser person than when I was younger: having babies, and passing 30, were the turning points. What women in their 40s – I am 39 – lack in gorgeousness, they make up for in wisdom. I love ageing, despite the drawbacks – thinner, drier skin.’ – Thandie Newton

‘Around ’93, ’94, the conventional wisdom about the Internet was that it was a toy for academics and researchers. So it was very, very underestimated for about two years.’ – Marc Andreessen

‘Never say never, but the thought of electively cutting oneself is beyond my grasp, and I also object to it politically. Denying the lines on our faces makes a comment about age and wisdom I don’t care to make.’ – Debra Winger

‘Perhaps religious conscience upsets the designs of those who feel that the highest wisdom and authority comes from government. But from the beginning, this nation trusted in God, not man. Religious liberty is the first freedom in our Constitution.’ – Mitt Romney

‘There’s the conventional wisdom, of which I have none, where you get a record deal, you get a publicist, you get a campaign, and you do the tour, but none of that adds up to things like nuance and subtlety and dynamic.’ – Chris Robinson

‘If we can return to a government that the Founders, in their wisdom, envisioned for us, we can return to a government that will allow our economy to thrive again, and our people to live in liberty.’ – Nan Hayworth

‘Conventional wisdom on government’s role in inequality often has it backwards. Tax reforms have resulted in a more progressive federal income tax; government transfer payments have become less progressive.’ – Paul Ryan

‘I have the responsibility of over four million people, and I am in a position to do good, to be able to bring about a new life for my people, and I will continue to move in that direction. It’s a burden, but it needs to be done, and you have to have the courage and wisdom to see it through.’ – Abdullah II of Jordan

‘I believe we have become paralyzed, paralyzed by our desire to be loved. Now our founding fathers had the wisdom to know that social acceptance and popularity were fleeing, and that this country’s principles needed to be rooted in strengths greater than the passions and the emotions of the times.’ – Chris Christie

‘Now our founding fathers had the wisdom to know that social acceptance and popularity were fleeing, and that this country’s principles needed to be rooted in strengths greater than the passions and the emotions of the times.’ – Chris Christie

‘Analysts may be correct that the presidential election won’t primarily turn on entitlements reform, but by choosing Paul Ryan as his running mate, Mitt Romney can, contrary to conventional wisdom, make it a winning issue and lay the foundation for a reform mandate when he wins.’ – David Limbaugh

‘In my definition of consciousness, consciousness is the same thing as life. What wisdom traditions also call spirit.’ – Deepak Chopra

‘To build a great company, which is a CEO’s job, sometimes you have to stand up against conventional wisdom.’ – Carly Fiorina

‘I always see where I didn’t do things the right way. I only see the heavy lifting. That’s a bit of my wisdom, if you want to call it that.’ – Vera Wang

‘Spend time reflecting on your emotional and physical existence and how that applies to the voice. You have to apply that wisdom and experience when you sing – it’s what comes through.’ – K. D. Lang

‘I love being. There’s so much wisdom in it. You wake up in the morning and you think, Hey, isn’t it great just being?’ – Gwyneth Paltrow

‘Clinton is a big personality who has led a big life, and for some of the media conventional wisdom to boil it down to a view that ‘all people are really interested in’ are a few moments of madness in the Oval Office gets him, the importance of the presidency, and the significance of his life, all wrong.’ – Alastair Campbell

‘I learned some valuable lessons about the legislative process, the importance of bipartisan cooperation and the wisdom of taking small steps to get a big job done.’ – Hillary Clinton

‘The wisdom of God’s Word is quite clear on believers being unequally yoked. And marrying someone who is not a Christian – who is not a daily disciple of Christ – is being unequally yoked, regardless of what their beliefs might be.’ – Pat Robertson

‘We live in a culture that doesn’t acknowledge or validate human intuition and doesn’t encourage us to rely on our intuitive wisdom.’ – Shakti Gawain

‘When I wrote Living in the Light, I wanted to share about how I live my own life and to encourage people to tap into their own inner wisdom.’ – Shakti Gawain

‘Saudi Arabia is a puritanical state that claims a monopoly of wisdom and virtue.’ – James Buchan

‘Age is a terrible avenger. The lessons of life give you so much to work with, but by the time you’ve got all this great wisdom, you don’t get to be young anymore.’ – Elizabeth Wurtzel

‘What could be more lonely than to be enveloped in silence, to be the last of your people to speak your native tongue, to have no way to pass on the wisdom of the elders, to anticipate the promise of the children. This tragic fate is indeed the plight of someone somewhere roughly every two weeks.’ – Wade Davis

‘We don’t pray for the land. We pray for the humans, all humans… starting with the president, Mohammed Morsi, and all officials, and for God to give everyone wisdom and responsibility to manage the affairs of this country and its people in true Egyptian spirit.’ – Pope Theodoros II

‘I’m someone who’s done the opposite of whatever the received wisdom is, to keep your career going into your 50s.’ – Elizabeth McGovern

‘A few years ago you couldn’t go from TV to film. It was like a ‘no no’ but I believe when you find a plan and purpose that God has for your life, there’s not anything man can do to you. Especially when your faith is not really standing in the wisdom of man, you’re really standing in the wisdom of God.’ – Derek Luke

‘After 25-plus years as a lawyer, prosecutor, and defense attorney, I have developed a deep appreciation for both the wisdom of the law and the role that jurists play in framing the rights and responsibilities that define our society.’ – Eliot Spitzer

‘I don’t think you can come into your wisdom until you have made mistakes on your own skin and felt them in reality of your own life.’ – Elizabeth Gilbert

‘Learning how to get in tune with your field of energy and understand how to create your energy, expand that energy, and move that energy through your body. Coming back to your center, and approaching life from that center-to-line place… That to me gave me strength and understanding and hopefully wisdom to solve life’s problems and challenges.’ – Erin Gray

‘I have no wisdom to share on dating.’ – Rachel Dratch

‘Focus on the mind and the soul. Read. Study. Enrol in a course of lectures. Pray. Become a member of a religious congregation. Study the Bible or other ancient works of wisdom.’ – Jonathan Sacks

‘This society in which we live is radically changing. What previous generations saw as evil is now embraced as being good. It is a dangerous and slippery slope upon which we stand when we reject what Solomon called the beginning of wisdom – the fear of God.’ – Ray Comfort

‘When you’re used to being prepared to reject conventional wisdom, it leaves you open to learn more.’ – Mayim Bialik

‘You know, many people have said that I’m on the edge and I’m maverick for some of the big operations that I’ve done. I’m not at all. I pray; I ask God to give me wisdom, ‘Should I do it?’, guidance in terms of how to do it, who to consult with. All those kind of things are incredibly important.’ – Ben Carson

‘I actually don’t think that I’m that much smarter than anybody else. It’s just that I frequently just seem to know what to do, and I think that’s wisdom.’ – Ben Carson

‘In my own personal life, God plays a great role in the risk, because I pray before I go into the operating room for every case, and I ask him to give me wisdom, to help me to know what to do – and not only for operating, but for everything.’ – Ben Carson

‘You know, it’s sort of common wisdom among New York publishers that short story collections don’t make money.’ – Chad Harbach

‘I left school at 16 but I wish I’d gone to university – I think I would have studied English literature. I had a knack for that. But I don’t think you have the kind of wisdom at 16 to make that decision.’ – Brendan Coyle

‘I don’t think I really have any wisdom. Stay out of trouble. Good luck. Stay away from women because they will burn you, haha.’ – Jason Aldean