Famous Quotes
- He dares to be a fool, and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.
- James Huneker on Wisdom
- He read his mind. He's a strange sort of man, isn't he? It's not just the advice and the wisdom that he has.
- Omar Sharif on Wisdom
- He was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the rich.
- Evelyn Waugh on Wisdom
- 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 on Wisdom
- 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 on Wisdom
- 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.
- He who lives by the crystal ball soon learns to eat ground glass.
- Edgar R. Fiedler on Wisdom
- He whose wisdom cannot help him, gets no good from being wise.
- Quintus Ennius on Wisdom
- 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 on Wisdom
- Honesty is the best policy.
- Benjamin Franklin on Wisdom
- Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.
- Thomas Jefferson on Wisdom
- 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 on Wisdom
- 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 on Wisdom
- 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 on Wisdom
- 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 on Wisdom
- Humility is the only true wisdom by which we prepare our minds for all the possible changes of life.
- George Arliss on Wisdom
- 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.
- 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.
- Benjamin Carson on Wisdom
- I actually think with age comes some level of wisdom.
- Nina Totenberg on Wisdom
- 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 on Wisdom
- 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.
- 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 on Wisdom
- 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 on Wisdom
- 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 on Wisdom
- I am thinking of taking a fifth wife. Why not? Solomon had a thousand wives and he is a synonym for wisdom.
- John Barrymore on Wisdom
- 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 on Wisdom
- 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 on Wisdom
- 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 on Wisdom
- I covered my face because they had taken my wisdom teeth out.
- Josh Brolin on Wisdom
- I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.
- I didn't get where I am today by worryin' about how I'd feel tomorrow.
- 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 on Wisdom
- I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
- Thomas Carlyle on Wisdom
- 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 on Wisdom
- 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 on Wisdom
- I don't turn to greeting cards for wisdom and advice, but they are a fine reflection of the general drift of the culture.
- Susan Orlean on Wisdom
- I don't want to put a pause on the rest of my life I'm really enjoying getting older and the wisdom that comes from that.
- Rosemarie DeWitt on Wisdom
- I feel increasingly like age is very irrelevant. Quite often, cynicism is confused with wisdom, and my scorn is confused with a knowing, which I don't have.
- Laura Marling on Wisdom
- 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 on Wisdom
- I find the fact that billionaires are quoted as if the fact that they are billionaires gives them some kind of wisdom is outrageous.
- I gave my beauty and my youth to men. I am going to give my wisdom and experience to animals.
- Brigitte Bardot on Wisdom
- I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.
- 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 on Wisdom
- I have no agenda except to be funny. Neither I or the writers profess to offer any worldly wisdom.
- Julia Louis-Dreyfus on Wisdom
- I have no wisdom to share on dating.
- Rachel Dratch on Wisdom
- I have studied many philosophers and many cats. The wisdom of cats is infinitely superior.
- Hippolyte Taine on Wisdom
- 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 on Wisdom
- 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.
- King Abdullah II on Wisdom
- 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 on Wisdom
- 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 on Wisdom
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