Wisdom Quotes

There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives.

The most important lesson of New Labour is this: Every time we made progress we did it by challenging the conventional wisdom.

There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart.

We can be knowledgable with other men's knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men's 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.

It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.

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.

Spend time reflecting on your emotional and physical existence and how that applies to the voice. You have to apply that wisdom and experience when you sing - it's what comes through.

Follow the wisdom of the great actor, James Cagney, you hit your mark, you look the other guy in the eye, and you tell the truth.

Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.

It is almost everywhere the case that soon after it is begotten the greater part of human wisdom is laid to rest in repositories.

The pine stays green in winter... wisdom in hardship.

Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.

Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack. We give it orders which make no sense.

I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge.

The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one.

Putting is like wisdom - partly a natural gift and partly the accumulation of experience.

The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.

The enemy of the conventional wisdom is not ideas but the march of events.

Even wisdom has to yield to self-interest.

Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time.

They would need to be already wise, in order to love wisdom.

Age does not bring you wisdom, age brings you wrinkles.

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

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.

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.

One reason the human race has such a low opinion of itself is that it gets so much of its wisdom from writers.

Wisdom is the quality that keeps you from getting into situations where you need it.

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.

Memory is not wisdom; idiots can by rote repeat volumes. Yet what is wisdom without memory?