Famous Quotes
- 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 on Wisdom
- 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 on Wisdom
- 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 on Wisdom
- 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 on Wisdom
- 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 on Wisdom
- I love the music of Lauryn Hill and Erykah Badu and more recently the music of Laura Marling. All these women share a strength and a wisdom in their voices and music that really makes me want to make music and sing.
- Lianne La Havas on Wisdom
- I prefer the folly of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.
- Anatole France on Wisdom
- 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 on Wisdom
- 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 on Wisdom
- 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 on Wisdom
- I think in conventional magazine wisdom, you need to have a redesign every decade or so.
- Timothy White on Wisdom
- 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 on Wisdom
- I'd rather regret the things I've done than regret the things I haven't done.
- Lucille Ball on Wisdom
- I'll come to you with gifts of knowledge, wisdom and truth.
- Barry White on Wisdom
- 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 on Wisdom
- 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 on Wisdom
- 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
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