Be there a will, and wisdom finds a way. George Crabbe on wisdom
I see a wiser person than when I was younger: having babies, and passing 30, were the turning points. What women in their 40s - I am 39 - lack in gorgeousness, they make up for in wisdom. I love ageing, despite the drawbacks - thinner, drier skin. Thandie Newton on wisdom
Knowledge is the consequence of time, and multitude of days are fittest to teach wisdom. Jeremy Collier on wisdom
Books give not wisdom where none was before. But where some is, there reading makes it more. Elizabeth Hardwick on wisdom
And it is no less true, that personal security and private property rest entirely upon the wisdom, the stability, and the integrity of the courts of justice. Joseph Story on wisdom
Wisdom sails with wind and time. John Florio on wisdom
To avoid entangling alliances has been a maxim of our policy ever since the days of Washington, and its wisdom no one will attempt to dispute. James Buchanan on wisdom
Your law may be perfect, your knowledge of human affairs may be such as to enable you to apply it with wisdom and skill, and yet without individual acquaintance with men, their haunts and habits, the pursuit of the profession becomes difficult, slow, and expensive. William Dunbar on wisdom
I don't want to put a pause on the rest of my life I'm really enjoying getting older and the wisdom that comes from that. Rosemarie DeWitt on wisdom
As an instrument for practical action, law is responsive to the wisdom of its time, which may be wrong, but it carries forward, sometimes in opposition to this wisdom or passion, a memory of received values. Edward Levi on wisdom
And, if we have any evidence that the wisdom which formed the plan is in the man, we have the very same evidence, that the power which executed it is in him also. Thomas Reid on wisdom
While many of us never knew Ronald Reagan personally, we felt close to him because we shared his lighthearted sense of humor, admired his uncommon virtue, and were moved by his remarkable wisdom. Randy Forbes on wisdom
What could be more lonely than to be enveloped in silence, to be the last of your people to speak your native tongue, to have no way to pass on the wisdom of the elders, to anticipate the promise of the children. This tragic fate is indeed the plight of someone somewhere roughly every two weeks. Wade Davis on wisdom
I chose Sony Classics, not just because of their practical experience, not just because of their wisdom in marketing, but mainly because of their integrity. Arthur Cohn on wisdom
If the highest things are unknowable, then the highest capacity or virtue of man cannot be theoretical wisdom. Leo Strauss on wisdom
We don't pray for the land. We pray for the humans, all humans... starting with the president, Mohammed Morsi, and all officials, and for God to give everyone wisdom and responsibility to manage the affairs of this country and its people in true Egyptian spirit. Pope Theodoros II on wisdom
Hatred is corrosive of a person's wisdom and conscience the mentality of enmity can poison a nation's spirit, instigate brutal life and death struggles, destroy a society's tolerance and humanity, and block a nation's progress to freedom and democracy. Liu Xiaobo on wisdom
Instead of looking at life as a narrowing funnel, we can see it ever widening to choose the things we want to do, to take the wisdom we've learned and create something. Liz Carpenter on wisdom
I think in conventional magazine wisdom, you need to have a redesign every decade or so. Timothy White on wisdom
One reason the human race has such a low opinion of itself is that it gets so much of its wisdom from writers. Wilfrid Sheed on wisdom