I'm not wise, but the beginning of wisdom is there; it's like relaxing into - and an acceptance of - things.
~By Tina Turner ~
The older I get the more wisdom I find in the ancient rule of taking first things first. A process which often reduces the most complex human problem to a manageable proportion.
~By Dwight D. Eisenhower ~
We can be knowledgable with other men's knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.
~By Michel de Montaigne ~
There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic: a man's own observation what he finds good of and what he finds hurt of is the best physic to preserve health.
~By Francis Bacon ~
If I am fool, it is, at least, a doubting one; and I envy no one the certainty of his self-approved wisdom.
~By George Byron ~
Economists often like startling theorems, results which seem to run counter to conventional wisdom.
~By Joseph E. Stiglitz ~
Strength and wisdom are not opposing values.
~By William J. Clinton ~
Preconceived notions are the locks on the door to wisdom.
~By Merry Browne ~
We must expect reverses, even defeats. They are sent to teach us wisdom and prudence, to call forth greater energies, and to prevent our falling into greater disasters.
~By Robert E. Lee ~
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.
~By John Selden ~
Humility is the only true wisdom by which we prepare our minds for all the possible changes of life.
~By George Arliss ~
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.
~By Socrates ~
Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences.
~By Norman Cousins ~
Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.
~By Rabindranath Tagore ~
Rich people without wisdom and learning are but sheep with golden fleeces.
~By Solon ~
Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use.
~By Thomas J. Watson ~
Our experience is composed rather of illusions that of wisdom acquired.
~By Joseph Roux ~
To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.
~By Herman Melville ~
And when the world is created, it is created in such a way that those eternal objects of God's loving wisdom become actualities - interacting with one another, relating to God in the finite realm.
~By Rowan D. Williams ~
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.
~By Gustave Courbet ~
The hours of folly are measured by the clock; but of wisdom, no clock can measure.
~By William Blake ~
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.
~By Sally Kirkland ~
Science investigates religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power religion gives man wisdom which is control.
~By Martin Luther King, Jr. ~
Losing faith in your own singularity is the start of wisdom, I suppose; also the first announcement of death.
~By Peter Conrad ~
Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain.
~By Khalil Gibran ~
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.
~By Erica Jong ~
Wisdom is that apprehension of heavenly things to which the spirit rises through love.
~By Honore de Balzac ~
Wisdom has never made a bigot, but learning has.
~By Josh Billings ~
Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men.
~By Confucius ~
Wisdom and deep intelligence require an honest appreciation of mystery.
~By Thomas Moore ~
It is essential to employ, trust, and reward those whose perspective, ability, and judgment are radically different from yours. It is also rare, for it requires uncommon humility, tolerance, and wisdom.
~By Dee Hock ~
A wholesome oblivion of one's neighbours is the beginning of wisdom.
~By Richard Le Gallienne ~
It is good even for old men to learn wisdom.
~By Aeschylus ~
In order to have wisdom we must have ignorance.
~By Theodore Dreiser ~
We do not sit as a superlegislature to weigh the wisdom of legislation.
~By William O. Douglas ~
Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom.
~By Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
Cleverness is not wisdom.
~By Euripides ~
Nobility of spirit has more to do with simplicity than ostentation, wisdom rather than wealth, commitment rather than ambition.
~By Riccardo Muti ~
Peace is a fragile thing. It takes courage to secure it. It takes wisdom to maintain it.
~By Jenny Shipley ~
Logic is the beginning of wisdom, not the end.
~By Leonard Nimoy ~
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.
~By Aeschylus ~
Wisdom comes by disillusionment.
~By George Santayana ~
Spending two years on my uncle's ranch in Montana as a young man gave me the wisdom and the thrust to do westerns.
~By Robert Duvall ~
In regard of the rich grace and wisdom of his love toward his people; for who sees not, but that it is a curse to be unready as these foolish virgins, who were therefore shut out.
~By Thomas Shepard ~
Beauty, the eternal Spouse of the Wisdom of God and Angel of his Presence thru' all creation.
~By Robert Bridges ~
The more I work with the body, keeping my assumptions in a temporary state of reservation, the more I appreciate and sympathize with a given disease. The body no longer appears as a sick or irrational demon, but as a process with its own inner logic and wisdom.
~By George MacDonald ~
Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.
~By Herbert Hoover ~
If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner.
~By Omar N. Bradley ~
Second, this epic tale allows the audience to actually listen to the Native Americans and receive their wisdom. Spielberg conveys the respect for Native Americans that is normally lacking in Western films.
~By Beau Bridges ~
There are three methods to gaining wisdom. The first is reflection, which is the highest. The second is limitation, which is the easiest. The third is experience, which is the bitterest.
~By Confucius ~
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.
~By Paul Klee ~
Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men; but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass.
~By Joseph Addison ~
Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought - asleep. When we are weary of the living, we may repair to the dead, who have nothing of peevishness, pride, or design in their conversation.
~By William Butler Yeats ~
The truest greatness lies in being kind, the truest wisdom in a happy mind.
~By Ella Wheeler Wilcox ~
War involves in its progress such a train of unforeseen circumstances that no human wisdom can calculate the end; it has but one thing certain, and that is to increase taxes.
~By Thomas Paine ~
There's a beauty to wisdom and experience that cannot be faked. It's impossible to be mature without having lived.
~By Amy Grant ~
Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment.
~By Lao Tzu ~
Lord, give us the wisdom to utter words that are gentle and tender, for tomorrow we may have to eat them.
~By Mo Udall ~
I covered my face because they had taken my wisdom teeth out.
~By Josh Brolin ~
Pessimism is only the name that men of weak nerves give to wisdom.
~By Bernard De Voto ~
It may be assumed as an axiom that Providence has never gifted any political party with all of political wisdom or blinded it with all of political folly.
~By John George Nicolay ~
Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?
~By T. S. Eliot ~
There is this difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man, really is so; but he that thinks himself the wisest, is generally the greatest fool.
~By Charles Caleb Colton ~
Even wisdom has to yield to self-interest.
~By Pindar ~
Whenever you argue with another wiser than yourself in order that others may admire your wisdom, they will discover your ignorance.
~By Saadi ~
What is the price of experience? Do men buy it for a song? Or wisdom for a dance in the street? No, it is bought with the price of all the man hath, his house, his wife, his children.
~By William Blake ~
Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in the way in which the man of practical wisdom would determine it.
~By Aristotle ~
It is almost everywhere the case that soon after it is begotten the greater part of human wisdom is laid to rest in repositories.
~By Georg C. Lichtenberg ~
I think in conventional magazine wisdom, you need to have a redesign every decade or so.
~By Timothy White ~
The more tranquil a man becomes, the greater is his success, his influence, his power for good. Calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom.
~By James Allen ~
A man may learn wisdom even from a foe.
~By Aristophanes ~
The constitutions of Maryland and New York are founded in higher wisdom.
~By Ezra Stiles ~
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.
~By Gertrude Jekyll ~
Rightly defined philosophy is simply the love of wisdom.
~By Marcus Tullius Cicero ~
Words of wisdom are spoken by children at least as often as scientists.
~By James Newman ~
Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack. We give it orders which make no sense.
~By Henry Miller ~
Every nation whose affairs betray a want of wisdom and stability may calculate on every loss which can be sustained from the more systematic policy of its wiser neighbors.
~By James Madison ~
The current wisdom now is that if the three networks are covering the news the same way the difference is the anchor people. I think that won't be true in the future.
~By Roone Arledge ~
The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation, the man of manly character and of wisdom.
~By Plato ~
Wisdom finds its literary expression in wisdom literature.
~By Paul Ricoeur ~
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.
~By Parker Stevenson ~
In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom and unwisdom; we have to say, Like People like Government.
~By Thomas Carlyle ~
Always keep your mind as bright and clear as the vast sky, the great ocean, and the highest peak, empty of all thoughts. Always keep your body filled with light and heat. Fill yourself with the power of wisdom and enlightenment.
~By Morihei Ueshiba ~
Wisdom I know is social. She seeks her fellows. But Beauty is jealous, and illy bears the presence of a rival.
~By Thomas Jefferson ~
Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them in their mediocrity.
~By Robert Louis Stevenson ~
Vanity can easily overtake wisdom. It usually overtakes common sense.
~By Julian Casablancas ~
Patience is the companion of wisdom.
~By Saint Augustine ~
They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.
~By Confucius ~
All human wisdom is summed up in two words; wait and hope.
~By Alexandre Dumas ~
And I pray thee, loving Jesus, that as Thou hast graciously given me to drink in with delight the words of Thy knowledge, so Thou wouldst mercifully grant me to attain one day to Thee, the fountain of all wisdom and to appear forever before Thy face.
~By Venerable Bede ~
Memory is not wisdom; idiots can by rote repeat volumes. Yet what is wisdom without memory?
~By Martin Farquhar Tupper ~
The final wisdom of life requires not the annulment of incongruity but the achievement of serenity within and above it.
~By Reinhold Niebuhr ~
I gave my beauty and my youth to men. I am going to give my wisdom and experience to animals.
~By Brigitte Bardot ~
Many people have their reputations as reporters and analysts because they are on television, batting around conventional wisdom. A lot of these people have never reported a story.
~By Bob Woodward ~
And it is no less true, that personal security and private property rest entirely upon the wisdom, the stability, and the integrity of the courts of justice.
~By Joseph Story ~
He whose wisdom cannot help him, gets no good from being wise.
~By Quintus Ennius ~
What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes?
~By Norman Douglas ~
Wisdom consists not so much in knowing what to do in the ultimate as knowing what to do next.
~By Herbert Hoover ~
You can practice to attain knowledge, but you can't practice to attain wisdom.
~By Herbie Hancock ~
A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.
~By Francis Bacon ~
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