740 Quotes Regarding Wisdom


It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.
Menander

As far as feeling freedom in my career now versus five years ago... I think if I feel any more free it's simply because of the experiences that I've had, and the wisdom I've accumulated from that time.
Mary Chapin Carpenter

The current wisdom now is that if the three networks are covering the news the same way the difference is the anchor people. I think that won't be true in the future.
Roone Arledge

All human wisdom works and has worries and grief as reward.
Johann Georg Hamann

He read his mind. He's a strange sort of man, isn't he? It's not just the advice and the wisdom that he has.
Omar Sharif

Remembering is painful, it's difficult, but it can be inspiring and it can give wisdom.
Paul Greengrass

Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.
Wallace Stegner

Losing faith in your own singularity is the start of wisdom, I suppose also the first announcement of death.
Peter Conrad

If they can prove that I am wrong by that time, I will give it up to their wisdom, but not after to any one's judgment, till I see the end of another year for the Lord will begin with a new century and I will see what he will do, before I will hearken to any man's judgment.
Joanna Southcott

You want people walking away from the conversation with some kernel of wisdom or some kind of impact.
Harry Dean Stanton

Follow the wisdom of the great actor, James Cagney, you hit your mark, you look the other guy in the eye, and you tell the truth.
Larry Merchant

The seven wise men of Greece, so famous for their wisdom all the world over, acquired all that fame, each of them, by a single sentence consisting of two or three words.
Robert South

This age thinks better of a gilded fool Than of a threadbare saint in wisdom's school.
Thomas Dekker

The 'wisdom of the crowds' is the most ridiculous statement I've heard in my life. Crowds are dumb.
Drew Curtis

However, I must not indulge in homespun wisdom here before so distinguished an assembly, especially as I am to be followed by a representative of science.
Knut Hamsun

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

Writing is no dying art form in America because most published writers here accept the wisdom and the necessity of encouraging the talent that follows in their footsteps.
Elizabeth George

Much of the wisdom of one age, is the folly of the next.
Charles Simmons

I have studied many philosophers and many cats. The wisdom of cats is infinitely superior.
Hippolyte Taine

Courage is always the surest wisdom.
Wilfred Grenfell