Famous Quotes
- Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn. They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art.
- Charlie Parker on Wisdom
- 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 on Wisdom
- 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 on Wisdom
- 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.
- My mother is a great source of advice and wisdom and consolation for me.
- Katherine Heigl on Wisdom
- My past is my wisdom to use today... my future is my wisdom yet to experience. Be in the present because that is where life resides.
- Gene Oliver on Wisdom
- Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson on Wisdom
- Never accept ultimatums, conventional wisdom, or absolutes.
- Christopher Reeve on Wisdom
- Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another.
- Never let a fool kiss you, or a kiss fool you.
- Joey Adams on Wisdom
- 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 on Wisdom
- Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
- George S. Patton on Wisdom
- Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time.
- Theodore Roosevelt on Wisdom
- 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 on Wisdom
- No man was ever wise by chance.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca on Wisdom
- 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 on Wisdom
- 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 on Wisdom
- Nobility of spirit has more to do with simplicity than ostentation, wisdom rather than wealth, commitment rather than ambition.
- Riccardo Muti on Wisdom
- Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero on Wisdom
- Normally street children are shown in terms of the tragedy of their lives - which is true - but there's also another dimension: their wisdom, dignity and enormous capacity for survival.
- Henning Mankell on Wisdom
- Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.
- Not engaging in ignorance is wisdom.
- Bodhidharma on Wisdom
- Novels are the Socratic dialogues of our time. Practical wisdom fled from school wisdom into this liberal form.
- Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel on Wisdom
- 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 on Wisdom
- 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 on Wisdom
- 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
- Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency.
- John Updike on Wisdom
- Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford on Wisdom
- Of all our possessions, wisdom alone is imortal.
- Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.
- Of prosperity mortals can never have enough.
- Old myths, old gods, old heroes have never died. They are only sleeping at the bottom of our mind, waiting for our call. We have need for them. They represent the wisdom of our race.
- Stanley Kunitz on Wisdom
- One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know.
- John Kenneth Galbraith on Wisdom
- 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 on Wisdom
- One part of wisdom is knowing what you don't need anymore and letting it go.
- Jane Fonda on Wisdom
- 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 on Wisdom
- 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 on Wisdom
- Our experience is composed rather of illusions that of wisdom acquired.
- Joseph Roux on Wisdom
- Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way.
- Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack. We give it orders which make no sense.
- Henry Miller on Wisdom
- Our wisdom comes from our experience, and our experience comes from our foolishness.
- Sacha Guitry on Wisdom
- Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain.
- Khalil Gibran on Wisdom
- Pain is the doorway to wisdom and to truth.
- Keith Miller on Wisdom
- Pain makes man think. Thought makes man wise. Wisdom makes life endurable.
- John Patrick on Wisdom
- Patience is the companion of wisdom.
- Saint Augustine on Wisdom
- Peace is a fragile thing. It takes courage to secure it. It takes wisdom to maintain it.
- Jenny Shipley on Wisdom
- 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 on Wisdom
- People don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're happy.
- Anton Chekhov on Wisdom
- 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 on Wisdom
- Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.
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