Quotes About Wisdom

Mainstream media tend to just mouth the conventional wisdom, to see everything through the filter of right and left.

Pain is the doorway to wisdom and to truth.

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.

Dr. Johnson has said that the chief glory of a country arises from its authors. But then that is only as they are oracles of wisdom unless they teach virtue, they are more worthy of a halter than of the laurel.

I covered my face because they had taken my wisdom teeth out.

To keep your secret is wisdom to expect others to keep it is folly.

But in its final creation it was not the part of the Father's power to fail as though exhausted. It was not the part of His wisdom to waver in a needful matter through poverty of counsel.

But I do think it's important to remember that writers do not have a monopoly of wisdom on their books. They can be wrong about their own books, they can often learn about their own books.

Lord, give us the wisdom to utter words that are gentle and tender, for tomorrow we may have to eat them.

Nobility of spirit has more to do with simplicity than ostentation, wisdom rather than wealth, commitment rather than ambition.