Memory is not wisdom; idiots can by rote repeat volumes. Yet what is wisdom without memory?
Doubt is the vestibule through which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom.
Spending two years on my uncle’s ranch in Montana as a young man gave me the wisdom and the thrust to do westerns.
Even youngish men can acquire wisdom as time goes by.
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.
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.
There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.
Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.
We all admire the wisdom of people who come to us for advice.
I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge.
With age comes common sense and wisdom.
Back of every mistaken venture and defeat is the laughter of wisdom, if you listen.
Only people who lack wisdom would say that a project should be pursued even if it leads to wanton destruction of forests.
I prefer the folly of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.
In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom and unwisdom; we have to say, Like People like Government.
When you get older, you learn certain life lessons. You apply that wisdom, and suddenly you say, ‘Hey, I’ve got a new lease on this thing. So let’s go.’
As a husband, father and public servant, I’m thankful for the counsel and wisdom of my older brothers – Bill, who was a priest, and Kevin, who is a priest.
‘Swan,’ by Mary Oliver. Poems and prose. Reading from this book is as if visiting a very wise friend. There is wisdom and welcoming kindness on every page.
The marvel of the Bhagavad-Gita is its truly beautiful revelation of life’s wisdom which enables philosophy to blossom into religion.
One part of wisdom is knowing what you don’t need anymore and letting it go.
Wisdom consists not so much in knowing what to do in the ultimate as knowing what to do next.
One reason the human race has such a low opinion of itself is that it gets so much of its wisdom from writers.
Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.
Science is always discovering odd scraps of magical wisdom and making a tremendous fuss about its cleverness.
A wholesome oblivion of one’s neighbours is the beginning of wisdom.
