Quotes for Wisdom

I've led a school whose faculty and students examine and discuss and debate every aspect of our law and legal system. And what I've learned most is that no one has a monopoly on truth or wisdom. I've learned that we make progress by listening to each other, across every apparent political or ideological divide.

Elena Kagan

Wisdom and goodness are twin-born, one heart must hold both sisters, never seen apart.

William Dean Howells

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.

Mary Kay Ash

Education makes us more stupid than the brutes. A thousand voices call to us on every hand, but our ears are stopped with wisdom.

Jean Giraudoux

I have tried at every point to seek God's wisdom on the decisions I made, and I made it my business to speak up on behalf of the things God tells us are important to Him.

Jesse Helms

A wholesome oblivion of one's neighbours is the beginning of wisdom.

Richard Le Gallienne

Although it has been said by men of more wit than wisdom, and perhaps more malice than either, that women are naturally incapable of acting prudently, or that they are necessarily determined to folly, I must by no means grant it.

Mary Astell

Every journey that is successful has culs-de-sac and speed bumps. I carry a wisdom gene through my life through the good, the bad, and the ugly.

Peter Guber

While conventional wisdom has traditionally sided against borrowing from retirement savings, sentiment has shifted toward borrowing from one's own assets with the realization that other forms of credit come at a much higher cost and often are not even available to borrowers with limited means and urgent needs.

Elaine Chao

As a society, we come up lacking in many of the marks of compassion and wisdom by which we measure ourselves as civilized.

Greg Boyle

Blessed are they who seek to learn wisdom.

Ezra Taft Benson

To be asked to perform a new 'Talking Head' was beyond any expectation. The matchless brilliance of Alan Bennett's words coupled with the extraordinary wisdom of Nick Hytner's direction made this a thrilling and quite simply unforgettable experience, and I'm enormously grateful.

Sarah Lancashire

If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.

Lewis Carroll

We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far.

Swami Vivekananda

A closed mouth catches no flies.

Miguel de Cervantes

It takes a great man to give sound advice tactfully, but a greater to accept it graciously.

Logan Pearsall Smith

All of us, at certain moments of our lives, need to take advice and to receive help from other people.

Alexis Carrel

What is man's ultimate direction in life? It is to look for love, truth, virtue, and beauty.

Shinichi Suzuki

Meditation is the soul's perspective glass.

Owen Feltham

Always keep an open mind and a compassionate heart.

Phil Jackson