Quotes for Wisdom

Christopher Gore is a great character, portrayed with wisdom and understanding.

Ian McElhinney

Justice Scalia was a lion of the law. Agree or disagree with him, all of his colleagues on the bench shared his wisdom and his humor. And like them, I miss him.

Neil Gorsuch

Surely wisdom will come as we listen to learn from children, parents, partners, neighbors, Church leaders, and the Lord.

Russell M. Nelson

You should never ask a horse or an actor to do something they cannot do. Wisdom will teach you to find out what they can do and then make it easy for them.

Tommy Lee Jones

Someday in the distant cyborg future, when our internal and external memories fully merge, we may come to possess infinite knowledge. But that's not the same thing as wisdom.

Joshua Foer

You know how people always talk about how vision is the key to entrepreneurship and perseverance and really seeing what other people don't see? We can actually redeem a fair amount of that folk wisdom.

Eric Ries

Common wisdom dictates that the vice president should provide balance to the ticket by representing a different part of the country, another set of experiences, or a basketful of electoral votes.

Madeleine M. Kunin

It's one thing to really dream and have a vision and want all these cool things, but it's a whole other thing when you actually have wisdom and understand things. Then you can truly make the best decisions.

Ciara

Consensus wisdom has it that all modern commercial fantasy novels fall into two camps: those derived from J.R.R. Tolkien and those derived from Mervyn Peake. The 'Lord of the Rings' template or the 'Gormenghast' mold.

Paul Di Filippo

I have a very experience-dense reality. I've experienced so much stuff in just five years. I've experienced more in five years than most people do in their whole life. Wisdom comes from experience, in my opinion.

Nav

I'm so desperate for all the wisdom that only comes with age. But I can't do anything except wait for it.

Taylor Tomlinson

Today, education does not give you the wisdom and the understanding; it only indoctrinates you to believe something. So the mind knows very less but accepts so many things; it may be science, it may be technology, it may be anything.

Lobsang Tenzin

The Ohio Legislature's passed a law to allow concealed weapons in day care centers, but interesting: this same Legislature, in its wisdom, doesn't allow concealed weapons in the statehouse.

Sherrod Brown

Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.

Archimedes

He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose.

Jim Elliot

It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.

Epictetus

Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.

Judy Garland

Set your course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.

Omar N. Bradley

It's better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your life.

Elizabeth Kenny

We cannot become what we need to be by remaining what we are.

Max de Pree