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.

My mother is a great source of advice and wisdom and consolation for me.

Wisdom alone is true ambition's aim, wisdom is the source of virtue and of fame obtained with labour, for mankind employed, and then, when most you share it, best enjoyed.

Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences.

Sometimes one likes foolish people for their folly, better than wise people for their wisdom.

I'm not wise, but the beginning of wisdom is there it's like relaxing into - and an acceptance of - things.

Wisdom is knowing when you can't be wise.

The Divine wisdom has given us prayer, not as a means whereby to obtain the good things of earth, but as a means whereby we learn to do without them not as a means whereby we escape evil, but as a means whereby we become strong to meet it.

The left has come to regard common sense - the traditional wisdom and folkways of the community - as an obstacle to progress and enlightenment.

I always see where I didn't do things the right way. I only see the heavy lifting. That's a bit of my wisdom, if you want to call it that.