3 December 2020 Abbott L. Lowell Your aim will be knowledge and wisdom, not the reflected glamour of fame.
3 December 2020 Julian Casablancas Vanity can easily overtake wisdom. It usually overtakes common sense.
3 December 2020 Chen Shui-bian Through mutual understanding, sincerity and goodwill, and with great wisdom and broad views, the leaders on both sides should jointly initiate new opportunities for peace, stability, cooperation and mutual benefit.
3 December 2020 Benjamin Franklin The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.
3 December 2020 Anna Quindlen People always blame the girl she should have said no. A monosyllable, but conventional wisdom has always been that boys can’t manage it.
3 December 2020 Henry Ford Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
3 December 2020 Socrates True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.
3 December 2020 Francois de La Rochefoucauld We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it.
3 December 2020 Michael Caine For all my education, accomplishments, and so called ‘wisdom’… I can’t fathom my own heart.
3 December 2020 Nathaniel Hawthorne The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one’s self a fool the truest heroism is to resist the doubt and the profoundest wisdom, to know when it ought to be resisted, and when it be obeyed.
3 December 2020 Janet Jackson In complete darkness, it is only knowledge and wisdom that separates us.
3 December 2020 Peter Jennings I’ve always shied away from conventional wisdom, though I know the power of it.
3 December 2020 Doug Larson Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you’d have preferred to talk.
3 December 2020 Lianne La Havas I love the music of Lauryn Hill and Erykah Badu and more recently the music of Laura Marling. All these women share a strength and a wisdom in their voices and music that really makes me want to make music and sing.
3 December 2020 Timothy White I think in conventional magazine wisdom, you need to have a redesign every decade or so.
3 December 2020 William Eardley IV Lord, bless me with the ability to achieve all that I can, and the wisdom to realize it doesn’t all have to be by tomorrow!
3 December 2020 Thomas Carlyle In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom and unwisdom we have to say, Like People like Government.
3 December 2020 Nan Hayworth 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.
3 December 2020 Norman Douglas The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living, which are to be desired when dying.
3 December 2020 Octavio Paz Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.
3 December 2020 Nick Clooney Conventional wisdom holds that setting a timetable for getting American troops out of Iraq would be a mistake.
3 December 2020 Shinichi Suzuki What is man’s ultimate direction in life? It is to look for love, truth, virtue, and beauty.
