Quotes for Wisdom

When you're young, you wonder what all these old people are droning on about, trying to impart their wisdom. It's not relevant to you because being young is such a specific thing. Thank God for that. Thank God for the young people who go out and demonstrate against rampant capitalism or whatever.

Helen Mirren

My abiding faith in the wisdom of our electorate is what gives me hope.

Kapil Sibal

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

Ian McElhinney

But I do think it's important to remember that writers do not have a monopoly of wisdom on their books. They can be wrong about their own books, they can often learn about their own books.

China Mieville

During my training in pediatrics, I benefited from the talent and wisdom of women mentors.

Ralph Northam

For me, good films and good books are irreducible to a lesson. You can't just kind of translate them into one statement. On the contrary, the more you do that, the less wisdom in art there is.

Pawel Pawlikowski

If I could go back in time and give Rookie C.J one piece of wisdom, it would be that sometimes less is more. Off the court, sometimes it's just better to shut up and be quiet.

C. J. McCollum

I'm grateful for my lines of wisdom. Of course, there are days when I think: 'Oh my gawd, I look a bit tired.' But I can pull it together if I have to.

Twiggy

In my fifties, I was still in creation mode. Now I have more of a responsibility to step back and mentor and offer wisdom, offer sign posts on the path.

Jodie Evans

I've matured as a writer and human being. I've got some wisdom under my belt.

Carlene Carter

Sometimes it might seem like I'm using my songs to give other people pointers. But mainly, they're for me, just little notes to myself that I collected, and the wisdom that I've read. I give myself a lot of advice.

Seinabo Sey

I think I got a lot of life skills; I got a lot of wisdom; I've seen a lot of bad things happen to a lot of good people.

Young Jeezy

Whether they 'lean into' career, family, or both, let's not underestimate the wisdom of women to define happiness and success for themselves.

Rachel Campos-Duffy

There's something peculiar about writing fiction. It requires an interesting balance between seeing the world as a child and having the wisdom of a middle-aged person. The further you get from childhood and the experience of the teenage years, the greater the danger of losing that wellspring.

Kazuo Ishiguro

The higher we are placed, the more humbly we should walk.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Some folks are wise and some are otherwise.

Tobias Smollett

If you call failures experiments, you can put them in your resume and claim them as achievements.

Mason Cooley

Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.

Saint Augustine

To be satisfied with a little, is the greatest wisdom; and he that increaseth his riches, increaseth his cares; but a contented mind is a hidden treasure, and trouble findeth it not.

Akhenaton

Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself.

Marcus Tullius Cicero