Wisdom Quotes

It is not from reason that justice springs, but goodness is born of wisdom.

Wisdom finds its literary expression in wisdom literature.

This is perhaps the most profound meaning of the book of Job, the best example of wisdom.

I do interviews because it's a chance to be myself. I sometimes wonder what I could have to say that would be of any interest. I don't have any great wisdom.

For the subtlest folly proceeds from the subtlest wisdom.

Theology in general seems to me a substitution of human ingenuity for divine wisdom.

The ultimate wisdom which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed. There it lies, the simplest fact of the universe and at the same time the one which calls faith rather than reason.

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

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

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.

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.

I have no wisdom to share on dating.

After a gig I always head back to the hotel, remembering granny's words of wisdom. I cancel the late-night pizza and watch the Jonathan Ross show instead.

We do not sit as a superlegislature to weigh the wisdom of legislation.

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…

Peace is a fragile thing. It takes courage to secure it. It takes wisdom to maintain it.

Ask Elizabeth is a community of voices, it's not me standing on a podium telling people how to run their lives, it's girls helping each other sharing their wisdom and advice and I create a space for …

I'm someone who's done the opposite of whatever the received wisdom is, to keep your career going into your 50s.

Clinton is a big personality who has led a big life, and for some of the media conventional wisdom to boil it down to a view that 'all people are really interested in' are a few moments of madness in…

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 perceived wisdom is that people do not go in large numbers to black-and-white movies anymore - which is a great shame, but I'd love to make a black-and-white movie one day.

The marvel of the Bhagavad-Gita is its truly beautiful revelation of life's wisdom which enables philosophy to blossom into religion.

My mom calls me an older soul because, growing up, she taught me stuff real early. Now I spend most of my time chasing wisdom, chasing understanding.

I feel increasingly like age is very irrelevant. Quite often, cynicism is confused with wisdom, and my scorn is confused with a knowing, which I don't have.

Even wisdom has to yield to self-interest.