- I'm not wise, but the beginning of wisdom is there it's like relaxing into - and an acceptance of - things.
- Tina Turner on Wisdom
- I'm someone who's done the opposite of whatever the received wisdom is, to keep your career going into your 50s.
- Elizabeth McGovern on Wisdom
- 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 on Wisdom
- I've always shied away from conventional wisdom, though I know the power of it.
- Peter Jennings on Wisdom
- 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 on Wisdom
- If an idea is indeed sensible, it will eventually become just part of the accepted wisdom.
- Nigel Farage on Wisdom
- 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 on Wisdom
- If I am fool, it is, at least, a doubting one and I envy no one the certainty of his self-approved wisdom.
- George Byron on Wisdom
- If I don't have wisdom, I can teach you only ignorance.
- Leo Buscaglia on Wisdom
- If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise.
- William Butler Yeats on Wisdom
- If the highest things are unknowable, then the highest capacity or virtue of man cannot be theoretical wisdom.
- Leo Strauss on Wisdom
- 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 on Wisdom
- 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 on Wisdom
- 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 on Wisdom
- If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner.
- Omar N. Bradley on Wisdom
- 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 on Wisdom
- 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 on Wisdom
- If you call failures experiments, you can put them in your resume and claim them as achievements.
- Mason Cooley on Wisdom
- If you have a vaccine or an antidote that people can benefit from, you're not going to want to keep it to yourself. You're going to want to spread that wisdom or whatever to as many people as you can, so everybody can benefit from it.
- If you have the guts to keep making mistakes, your wisdom and intelligence leap forward with huge momentum.
- Holly Near on Wisdom
- If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
- Abraham Maslow on Wisdom
- 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 on Wisdom
- If you want to be found stand where the seeker seeks.
- Sidney Lanier on Wisdom
- If you were to offer a thirsty man all wisdom, you would not please him more than if you gave him a drink.
- 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 on Wisdom
- Ignorance and bungling with love are better than wisdom and skill without.
- Henry David Thoreau on Wisdom
- Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago.
- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe on Wisdom
- 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 on Wisdom
- In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.
- Arthur Schopenhauer on Wisdom
- 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 on Wisdom
- In complete darkness, it is only knowledge and wisdom that separates us.
- Janet Jackson on Wisdom
- In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.
- 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 on Wisdom
- 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 on Wisdom
- In life, all good things come hard, but wisdom is the hardest to come by.
- Lucille Ball on Wisdom
- In my definition of consciousness, consciousness is the same thing as life. What wisdom traditions also call spirit.
- Deepak Chopra on Wisdom
- 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.
- Benjamin Carson on Wisdom
- In order to have wisdom we must have ignorance.
- Theodore Dreiser on Wisdom
- 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 on Wisdom
- 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 on Wisdom
- 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 on Wisdom
- In seeking wisdom thou art wise in imagining that thou hast attained it - thou art a fool.
- Lord Chesterfield on Wisdom
- 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 on Wisdom
- In the frank expression of conflicting opinions lies the greatest promise of wisdom in governmental action.
- Louis D. Brandeis on Wisdom
- 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 on Wisdom
- In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause.
- George Eliot on Wisdom
- In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.
- Ansel Adams on Wisdom
- In youth and beauty, wisdom is but rare!
- 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 on Wisdom
- 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 on Wisdom
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