Wisdom Quotes

Wisdom finds its literary expression in wisdom literature.
Paul Ricoeur

Expression, Literature, Literary

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

Justice, Reason, Born

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

Sense, Opinions, Keeping

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

Winning, May, Election

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

Earth, Whether, Security

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

Knowing, Questions, Key

Second, this epic tale allows the audience to actually listen to the Native Americans and receive their wisdom. Spielberg conveys the respect for Native Americans that is normally lacking in Western films.
Beau Bridges

Respect, Actually, Second

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

Age, Young, Difficult

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

Brain, Dream, Both

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

Life, Live, Living

There is a universal, intelligent, life force that exists within everyone and everything. It resides within each one of use as a deep wisdom, an inner knowing. We can access this wonderful source of knowledge and wisdom through our intuition, an inner sense that tells us what feels right and true for us at any given moment.
Shakti Gawain

Life, Knowledge, True

I have no agenda except to be funny. Neither I or the writers profess to offer any worldly wisdom.
Julia Louis-Dreyfus

Funny, Except, Writers

If we can return to a government that the Founders, in their wisdom, envisioned for us, we can return to a government that will allow our economy to thrive again, and our people to live in liberty.
Nan Hayworth

Government, Live, Liberty

There's the conventional wisdom, of which I have none, where you get a record deal, you get a publicist, you get a campaign, and you do the tour, but none of that adds up to things like nuance and subtlety and dynamic.
Chris Robinson

Deal, Tour, Campaign

Rich people without wisdom and learning are but sheep with golden fleeces.
Solon

Learning, Rich, Sheep

Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late.
Felix Frankfurter

Often, Late, Reject

Preconceived notions are the locks on the door to wisdom.
Merry Browne

Door, Locks, Notions

It is costly wisdom that is bought by experience.
Roger Ascham

Experience, Bought, Costly

We have heeded no wisdom offering guidance.
Dora Russell

Guidance, Offering, Heeded

To think the world therefore a general Bedlam, or place of madmen, and oneself a physician, is the most necessary point of present wisdom: an important imagination, and the way to happiness.
Thomas Traherne

Happiness, Important, Place

Mainstream media tend to just mouth the conventional wisdom, to see everything through the filter of right and left.
Arianna Huffington

Everything, Through, Left

Pain is the doorway to wisdom and to truth.
Keith Miller

Truth, Pain, Doorway

I'm not a money manager, but I can tell you what the conventional wisdom is. The younger you are, the more risk you can take on.
Maria Bartiromo

Money, Tell, Risk

Dr. Johnson has said that the chief glory of a country arises from its authors. But then that is only as they are oracles of wisdom; unless they teach virtue, they are more worthy of a halter than of the laurel.
Jane Porter

Country, Said, Unless

I covered my face because they had taken my wisdom teeth out.
Josh Brolin

Face, Taken, Teeth

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