3 December 2020 Laura Marling 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.
3 December 2020 George Arliss Humility is the only true wisdom by which we prepare our minds for all the possible changes of life.
3 December 2020 Sam Mendes The perceived wisdom is that people do not go in large numbers to black-and-white movies anymore – which is a great shame, but I’d love to make a black-and-white movie one day.
3 December 2020 Horace A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune.
3 December 2020 Johannes Tauler Because in the school of the Spirit man learns wisdom through humility, knowledge by forgetting, how to speak by silence, how to live by dying.
3 December 2020 William Cowper Knowledge is proud that it knows so much wisdom is humble that it knows no more.
3 December 2020 Igor Stravinsky I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge.
3 December 2020 King Solomon Start with God – the first step in learning is bowing down to God only fools thumb their noses at such wisdom and learning.
3 December 2020 Henning Mankell 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.
3 December 2020 William Feather The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages is preserved into perpetuity by a nation’s proverbs, fables, folk sayings and quotations.
3 December 2020 Pietro Aretino I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship.
3 December 2020 Lord Chesterfield In seeking wisdom thou art wise in imagining that thou hast attained it – thou art a fool.
3 December 2020 Morihei Ueshiba When an opponent comes forward, move in and greet him if he wants to pull back, send him on his way.
3 December 2020 Wallace Stegner Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.
3 December 2020 Mary Kay Ash Central banks don’t have divine wisdom. They try to do the best analysis they can and must be prepared to stand or fall by the quality of that analysis.
3 December 2020 John Denham Books should to one of these fours ends conduce, for wisdom, piety, delight, or use.
3 December 2020 Kiana Tom True wisdom listens more, talks less and can get along with all types of people.
3 December 2020 Theodore Isaac Rubin Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom.
3 December 2020 Audrey Hepburn For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.
3 December 2020 H. L. Mencken Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
3 December 2020 Larry Merchant 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.
3 December 2020 John Updike The Founding Fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents. So they provided jails called schools, equipped with tortures called an education.
