When you're used to being prepared to reject conventional wisdom, it leaves you open to learn more. Mayim Bialik
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
A great memory is never made synonymous with wisdom, any more than a dictionary would be called a treatise. John Henry Newman
Although it has been said by men of more wit than wisdom, and perhaps more malice than either, that women are naturally incapable of acting prudently, or that they are necessarily determined to folly, I must by no means grant it. Mary Astell
The Relation we bear to the Wisdom of the Father, the Son of His Love, gives us indeed a dignity which otherwise we have no pretence to. It makes us something, something considerable even in God's Eyes. Mary Astell
Unhappy is that Grandeur which makes us too great to be good and that Wit which sets us at a distance from true Wisdom. Mary Astell
Imagination allows us to escape the predictable. It enables us to reply to the common wisdom that we cannot soar by saying, 'Just watch!' Bill Bradley
Our bodies are at once the receiving and transmitting stations for life itself. It is the highest wisdom to recognize this fact and train our bodies to render them sensitive and responsive to nature. art and religion. Ruth St. Denis
My past is my wisdom to use today... my future is my wisdom yet to experience. Be in the present because that is where life resides. Gene Oliver
However great an evil immorality may be, we must not forget that it is not without its beneficial consequences. It is only through extremes that men can arrive at the middle path of wisdom and virtue. Wilhelm von Humboldt
Our experience is composed rather of illusions that of wisdom acquired. Joseph Roux
There is as much wisdom in listening as there is in speaking - and that goes for all relationships, not just romantic ones. Daniel Dae Kim
The greater the step forward in knowledge, the greater is the one taken backward in search of wisdom. Stephen Gardiner
Surely, God on high has not refused to give us enough wisdom to find ways to bring us an improvement in relations between the two great nations on earth. Mikhail Gorbachev
Your art kind of changes as you get older, by nature of the fact that you're hopefully gaining wisdom and you're starting to watch things with a better overview. Sheryl Crow
Old myths, old gods, old heroes have never died. They are only sleeping at the bottom of our mind, waiting for our call. We have need for them. They represent the wisdom of our race. Stanley Kunitz
Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains. Francis Quarles
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
Man is wise and constantly in quest of more wisdom but the ultimate wisdom, which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed. There it lies, the simplest fact of the universe and at the same time the one which calls forth faith rather than reason. Hal Borland