712 private quotes tagged wisdom

“To light one candle to God and another to the Devil is the principle of wisdom.” — Jose Bergamin

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“Even wisdom has to yield to self-interest.” — Pindar

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“I feel increasingly like age is very irrelevant. Quite often, cynicism is confused with wisdom, and my scorn is confused with a knowing, which I don't have.” — Laura Marling

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“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

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“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

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“I'm someone who's done the opposite of whatever the received wisdom is, to keep your career going into your 50s.” — Elizabeth McGovern

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“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

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“We do not sit as a superlegislature to weigh the wisdom of legislation.” — William O. Douglas

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“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

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“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

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“Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun.” — Franz Grillparzer

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“Conventional wisdom holds that setting a timetable for getting American troops out of Iraq would be a mistake.” — Nick Clooney

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“Theology in general seems to me a substitution of human ingenuity for divine wisdom.” — Julia Ward Howe

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“For the subtlest folly proceeds from the subtlest wisdom.” — John Webster

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“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

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“This is perhaps the most profound meaning of the book of Job, the best example of wisdom.” — Paul Ricoeur

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“Wisdom finds its literary expression in wisdom literature.” — Paul Ricoeur

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“It is not from reason that justice springs, but goodness is born of wisdom.” — Maurice Maeterlinck

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“Wisdom is keeping a sense of fallibility of all our views and opinions.” — Gerald Brenan

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“Analysts may be correct that the presidential election won't primarily turn on entitlements reform, but by choosing Paul Ryan as his running mate, Mitt Romney can, contrary to conventional wisdom, make it a winning issue and lay the foundation for a reform mandate when he wins.” — David Limbaugh

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“Whether the aim is in heaven or on earth, wisdom or wealth, the essential condition of its pursuit and attainment is always security and order.” — Johan Huizinga

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“The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions.” — John A. Simone, Sr.

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“I probably wouldn't be a songwriter if I didn't grow up the way I did. It was difficult and it was at times very scary to grow up in a household so unsettled and at times very violent. But, it also, I guess it earned me a sort of wisdom at a young age that's served me well.” — Ray LaMontagne

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“Even by common wisdom, there seem to be both people and objects in my dream that are outside myself, but clearly they were created in myself and are part of me, they are mental constructs in my own brain.” — Ray Kurzweil

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“When I wrote Living in the Light, I wanted to share about how I live my own life and to encourage people to tap into their own inner wisdom.” — Shakti Gawain

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