Quotes for Wisdom

What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes?

Norman Douglas

It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.

Henry David Thoreau

We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.

George Bernard Shaw

Our shared values define us more than our differences. And acknowledging those shared values can see us through our challenges today if we have the wisdom to trust in them again.

John McCain

Imagination allows us to escape the predictable. It enables us to reply to the common wisdom that we cannot soar by saying, 'Just watch!'

Bill Bradley

It is now conventional wisdom that Americans do not care why we went to war in Iraq, that it is enough that the world is better off without Saddam Hussein.

Adam Schiff

Books give not wisdom where none was before. But where some is, there reading makes it more.

Elizabeth Hardwick

It's always fun to pass the wisdom on to the next generation.

Morten Andersen

The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.

Thomas A. Edison

Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?

Friedrich Nietzsche

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.

Robert E. Lee

Every day, every birthday candle I blow out, every penny I throw over my shoulder in a wishing well, every time my daughter says, 'Let's make a wish on a star,' there's one thing I wish for: wisdom.

Rene Russo

Some coaches pray for wisdom. I pray for 260-pound tackles. They'll give me plenty of wisdom.

Chuck Noll

Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun.

Franz Grillparzer

Arianna Huffington has exercised her renowned wisdom to give journalism another boost along the ever busier Internet. Her blog site promises to be an interesting challenge for those of us lucky enough to be invited to participate with our occasional contributions.

Walter Cronkite

The most important lesson of New Labour is this: Every time we made progress we did it by challenging the conventional wisdom.

Ed Miliband

Spending two years on my uncle's ranch in Montana as a young man gave me the wisdom and the thrust to do westerns.

Robert Duvall

My father said there were two kinds of people in the world: givers and takers. The takers may eat better, but the givers sleep better.

Marlo Thomas

Talent is God-given; be humble. Fame is man-given; be thankful. Conceit is self-given; be careful.

Harvey Mackay

Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.

Baruch Spinoza