712 private quotes tagged wisdom

“If to live is to progress, if you are lucky, from foolishness to wisdom, then to write novels is to broadcast the various stages of your foolishness.” — Jane Smiley

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“It is astonishing what force, purity, and wisdom it requires for a human being to keep clear of falsehoods.” — Margaret Fuller

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“Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.” — Phyllis Theroux

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“I don't think I really have any wisdom. Stay out of trouble. Good luck. Stay away from women because they will burn you, haha.” — Jason Aldean

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“Has fortune dealt you some bad cards. Then let wisdom make you a good gamester.” — Francis Quarles

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“The greatest wisdom is to realize one's lack of it.” — Constantin Stanislavski

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“It's very hard to know what wisdom is.” — James Hillman

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“I always prayed that God would give me the wisdom and the vision to do the things on this earth that I was supposed to do to express His life and love and His will.” — Billy Ray Cyrus

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“As a parent and a citizen, I'll take a Bill Gates (or Warren Buffett) over Steve Jobs every time. If we must have billionaires, better they should ignore Jobs's example and instead embrace the morality and wisdom of the great industrialist-philanthropist Andrew Carnegie.” — Eric Alterman

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“Never accept ultimatums, conventional wisdom, or absolutes.” — Christopher Reeve

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“I always told, Sandra Bullock was my student when she was younger, I always told her it's important that we hold on to our insecurity, the wisdom of insecurity.” — Sally Kirkland

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“Contemplation and wisdom are highest achievements and man is not totally at home with them.” — Gabriel Marcel

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“I am a poor student sitting at the feet of giants, yearning for their wisdom and begging for lessons that might one day make me a complete artist, so that if all goes well, I may one day sit beside them.” — Rod Taylor

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“Humility is the only true wisdom by which we prepare our minds for all the possible changes of life.” — George Arliss

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“I find that to be a fool as to worldly wisdom, and to commit my cause to God, not fearing to offend men, who take offence at the simplicity of truth, is the only way to remain unmoved at the sentiments of others.” — John Woolman

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“When you're used to being prepared to reject conventional wisdom, it leaves you open to learn more.” — Mayim Bialik

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“A great memory is never made synonymous with wisdom, any more than a dictionary would be called a treatise.” — John Henry Newman

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“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

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“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

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“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

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“Books are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom.” — George William Curtis

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“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

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“Our experience is composed rather of illusions that of wisdom acquired.” — Joseph Roux

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“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

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“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

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