Wisdom Quotes - Page 3

Don't gain the world and lose your soul; wisdom is better than silver or gold.

Appearances are often deceiving.

I always told, Sandra Bullock was my student when she was younger, I always told her it's important that we hold on to our insecurity, the wisdom of insecurity.

The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge.

Every speaker has a mouth; An arrangement rather neat. Sometimes it's filled with wisdom. Sometimes it's filled with feet.

Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?

Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.

After all my possessions had been burned, God gave me the wisdom to return to Jerusalem.

Nobility of spirit has more to do with simplicity than ostentation, wisdom rather than wealth, commitment rather than ambition.

There's the conventional wisdom, of which I have none, where you get a record deal, you get a publicist, you get a campaign, and you do the tour, but none of that adds up to things like nuance and subtlety and dynamic.

I can write 100 books on the wisdom and lessons from stories in the Bible.

He who is taught to live upon little owes more to his father's wisdom than he who has a great deal left him does to his father's care.

To suppose more than one supreme Source of infinite wisdom, power, and all perfections, is to assert that there is no supreme Being in existence.

The truest wisdom is a resolute determination.

The stupidity of people comes from having an answer for everything. The wisdom of the novel comes from having a question for everything.

A man begins cutting his wisdom teeth the first time he bites off more than he can chew.

The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.

I had read Harold Bloom's 'Where Shall Wisdom Be Found?' Late in his life, having read everything, Bloom asked which books had given him wisdom. I had just read a bunch of contemporary novels that had no wisdom for me.

The enemy of the conventional wisdom is not ideas but the march of events.

Conventional wisdom holds that setting a timetable for getting American troops out of Iraq would be a mistake.

In order to have wisdom we must have ignorance.

I don't want to put a pause on the rest of my life; I'm really enjoying getting older and the wisdom that comes from that.

Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become.

The idea of victimage is a dreadful thing, a product of a safe middle-class perspective. What people who are not safe develop is a tragic wisdom, a wisdom that embraces contradiction and seeks a sense of balance rather than going to extremes.

Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live.

With age comes common sense and wisdom.

When we looked at the life cycle in our 40s, we looked to old people for wisdom. At 80, though, we look at other 80-year-olds to see who got wise and who not. Lots of old people don't get wise, but you don't get wise unless you age.

Spectacular achievement is always preceded by unspectacular preparation.

It is good even for old men to learn wisdom.

The wisdom of age: don't stop walking.