- 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 on Wisdom
- 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.
- 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 on Wisdom
- Cleverness is not wisdom.
- Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.
- 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 on Wisdom
- 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 on Wisdom
- Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge on Wisdom
- 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 on Wisdom
- Contemplation and wisdom are highest achievements and man is not totally at home with them.
- Gabriel Marcel on Wisdom
- Conventional wisdom holds that setting a timetable for getting American troops out of Iraq would be a mistake.
- Nick Clooney on Wisdom
- 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 on Wisdom
- 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.
- Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom.
- Walter Benjamin on Wisdom
- Courage is always the surest wisdom.
- Wilfred Grenfell on Wisdom
- Cunning... is but the low mimic of wisdom.
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