712 private quotes tagged wisdom

“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

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“Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.” — Francis Quarles

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“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

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“What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes?” — Norman Douglas

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“The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living, which are to be desired when dying.” — Norman Douglas

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“As great as Ed is, the wisdom out here is that he can't carry a movie. They'll pay him $3 million to be the second banana in Julia Roberts things. But they won't put up $3 million for an Ed Harris movie.” — George A. Romero

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“We learned in World War II that no single nation holds a monopoly on wisdom, morality or right to power, but that we must fight for the weak and promote democracy.” — Joe Baca

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“A wholesome oblivion of one's neighbours is the beginning of wisdom.” — Richard Le Gallienne

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“Authority without wisdom is like a heavy ax without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish.” — Anne Bradstreet

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“I've always shied away from conventional wisdom, though I know the power of it.” — Peter Jennings

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“As I visited the various neighborhoods in the campaign, I learned fast that it's a mistake to think that all of the wisdom and possible solutions to our problems are available only in this building.” — Jane Byrne

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“You know how people always talk about how vision is the key to entrepreneurship and perseverance and really seeing what other people don't see? We can actually redeem a fair amount of that folk wisdom.” — Eric Ries

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“True wisdom listens more, talks less and can get along with all types of people.” — Kiana Tom

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“We all have within us a deep wisdom, but sometimes we don't know we have it.” — Shakti Gawain

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“We live in a culture that doesn't acknowledge or validate human intuition and doesn't encourage us to rely on our intuitive wisdom.” — Shakti Gawain

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“The thing that we possess, that machines don't, is the ability to exhibit wisdom.” — Herbie Hancock

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“And when the world is created, it is created in such a way that those eternal objects of God's loving wisdom become actualities - interacting with one another, relating to God in the finite realm.” — Rowan D. Williams

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“Wisdom is not acquired save as the result of investigation.” — Sara Teasdale

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“Spend time reflecting on your emotional and physical existence and how that applies to the voice. You have to apply that wisdom and experience when you sing - it's what comes through.” — K. D. Lang

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“This society in which we live is radically changing. What previous generations saw as evil is now embraced as being good. It is a dangerous and slippery slope upon which we stand when we reject what Solomon called the beginning of wisdom - the fear of God.” — Ray Comfort

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“The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.” — Solomon Ibn Gabirol

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“If God had sufficient wisdom and power to construct such a beautiful world as this, then we must admit that his wisdom and power are immeasurably greater than that of man, and hence he is qualified to reign as king.” — Orson Pratt

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“This fear of the Lord is indeed the beginning of wisdom. This consciousness of sin is the straight pathway to heaven.” — Joseph Barber Lightfoot

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“The first point of wisdom is to discern that which is false the second, to know that which is true.” — Lactantius

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“The wisdom acquired with the passage of time is a useless gift unless you share it.” — Esther Williams

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