3 December 2020 Thomas Traherne 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.
3 December 2020 Samuel Smiles Wisdom and understanding can only become the possession of individual men by travelling the old road of observation, attention, perseverance, and industry.
3 December 2020 Gustave Courbet I am not one who was born in the custody of wisdom I am one who is fond of olden times and intense in quest of the sacred knowing of the ancients.
3 December 2020 Nigel Farage If an idea is indeed sensible, it will eventually become just part of the accepted wisdom.
3 December 2020 Clifford Stoll Data is not information, information is not knowledge, knowledge is not understanding, understanding is not wisdom.
3 December 2020 Martin Farquhar Tupper Memory is not wisdom idiots can by rote repeat volumes. Yet what is wisdom without memory?
3 December 2020 Freeman Dyson It has become part of the accepted wisdom to say that the twentieth century was the century of physics and the twenty-first century will be the century of biology.
3 December 2020 Elizabeth Berkley 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.
3 December 2020 Stanford Moore This ceremony and the intellectual aura associated with the Nobel Prizes have grown from the wisdom of a practical chemist who wrote a remarkable will.
3 December 2020 Michael D. Higgins Now it is time to turn to an older wisdom that, while respecting material comfort and security as a basic right of all, also recognises that many of the most valuable things in life cannot be measured.
3 December 2020 Robert Orben Every speaker has a mouth An arrangement rather neat. Sometimes it’s filled with wisdom. Sometimes it’s filled with feet.
3 December 2020 Michael Sheen When I was at drama school, I wanted to change the world, and thought I had some great wisdom to impart to people about humanity. Now that I’m older, I know enough to realise that I know nothing at all.
3 December 2020 Rabindranath Tagore Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.
3 December 2020 John Barrymore I am thinking of taking a fifth wife. Why not? Solomon had a thousand wives and he is a synonym for wisdom.
3 December 2020 William Samuel Johnson To keep your secret is wisdom to expect others to keep it is folly.
3 December 2020 Aleister Crowley Science is always discovering odd scraps of magical wisdom and making a tremendous fuss about its cleverness.
3 December 2020 Maria Bartiromo 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.
