- 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
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