3 December 2020 Georg C. Lichtenberg It is almost everywhere the case that soon after it is begotten the greater part of human wisdom is laid to rest in repositories.
3 December 2020 Chris Robinson 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.
3 December 2020 Richard Cecil Wisdom prepares for the worst, but folly leaves the worst for the day when it comes.
3 December 2020 Shmuel Y. Agnon After all my possessions had been burned, God gave me the wisdom to return to Jerusalem.
3 December 2020 Mason Cooley If you call failures experiments, you can put them in your resume and claim them as achievements.
3 December 2020 John George Nicolay It may be assumed as an axiom that Providence has never gifted any political party with all of political wisdom or blinded it with all of political folly.
3 December 2020 Holly Near If you have the guts to keep making mistakes, your wisdom and intelligence leap forward with huge momentum.
3 December 2020 Bertolt Brecht Mixing one’s wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.
3 December 2020 Ralph Cudworth Now all the knowledge and wisdom that is in creatures, whether angels or men, is nothing else but a participation of that one eternal, immutable and increased wisdom of God.
3 December 2020 Steve Albini Doubt the conventional wisdom unless you can verify it with reason and experiment.
3 December 2020 Walter Scott Teach you children poetry it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.
3 December 2020 Margaret Fuller It is astonishing what force, purity, and wisdom it requires for a human being to keep clear of falsehoods.
3 December 2020 Joseph Addison Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass.
3 December 2020 Gertrude Jekyll In garden arrangement, as in all other kinds of decorative work, one has not only to acquire a knowledge of what to do, but also to gain some wisdom in perceiving what it is well to let alone.
3 December 2020 James Buchan Saudi Arabia is a puritanical state that claims a monopoly of wisdom and virtue.
3 December 2020 Tina Turner I’m not wise, but the beginning of wisdom is there it’s like relaxing into – and an acceptance of – things.
3 December 2020 George Byron If I am fool, it is, at least, a doubting one and I envy no one the certainty of his self-approved wisdom.
3 December 2020 Friedrich Nietzsche There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.
3 December 2020 Jane Byrne 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.
3 December 2020 John Kenneth Galbraith The enemy of the conventional wisdom is not ideas but the march of events.
3 December 2020 Clarence Day You can’t sweep other people off their feet, if you can’t be swept off your own.
3 December 2020 Robert E. Lee We must expect reverses, even defeats. They are sent to teach us wisdom and prudence, to call forth greater energies, and to prevent our falling into greater disasters.
