My mom calls me an older soul because, growing up, she taught me stuff real early. Now I spend most of my time chasing wisdom, chasing understanding. Ray Lewis on wisdom
The marvel of the Bhagavad-Gita is its truly beautiful revelation of life's wisdom which enables philosophy to blossom into religion. Herman Hesse on wisdom
The perceived wisdom is that people do not go in large numbers to black-and-white movies anymore - which is a great shame, but I'd love to make a black-and-white movie one day. Sam Mendes on wisdom
To suppose more than one supreme Source of infinite wisdom, power, and all perfections, is to assert that there is no supreme Being in existence. Adam Clarke on wisdom
Clinton is a big personality who has led a big life, and for some of the media conventional wisdom to boil it down to a view that 'all people are really interested in' are a few moments of madness in the Oval Office gets him, the importance of the presidency, and the significance of his life, all wrong. Alastair Campbell on wisdom
I'm someone who's done the opposite of whatever the received wisdom is, to keep your career going into your 50s. Elizabeth McGovern on wisdom
Ask Elizabeth is a community of voices, it's not me standing on a podium telling people how to run their lives, it's girls helping each other sharing their wisdom and advice and I create a space for them to do it. Elizabeth Berkley on wisdom
Peace is a fragile thing. It takes courage to secure it. It takes wisdom to maintain it. Jenny Shipley on wisdom
I've led a school whose faculty and students examine and discuss and debate every aspect of our law and legal system. And what I've learned most is that no one has a monopoly on truth or wisdom. I've learned that we make progress by listening to each other, across every apparent political or ideological divide. Elena Kagan on wisdom
We do not sit as a superlegislature to weigh the wisdom of legislation. William O. Douglas on wisdom
After a gig I always head back to the hotel, remembering granny's words of wisdom. I cancel the late-night pizza and watch the Jonathan Ross show instead. Jimmy Carr on wisdom
I have no wisdom to share on dating. Rachel Dratch on wisdom
Every journey that is successful has culs-de-sac and speed bumps. I carry a wisdom gene through my life through the good, the bad, and the ugly. Peter Guber on wisdom
It is now conventional wisdom that Americans do not care why we went to war in Iraq, that it is enough that the world is better off without Saddam Hussein. Adam Schiff on wisdom
Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun. Franz Grillparzer on wisdom
Conventional wisdom holds that setting a timetable for getting American troops out of Iraq would be a mistake. Nick Clooney on wisdom
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 faith rather than reason. Hal Borland on wisdom
Theology in general seems to me a substitution of human ingenuity for divine wisdom. Julia Ward Howe on wisdom
For the subtlest folly proceeds from the subtlest wisdom. John Webster on wisdom
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. Parker Stevenson on wisdom