Wisdom Quotes
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The conventional wisdom is that if you are gay, you cannot play the romantic straight lead in a movie.
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Whenever you argue with another wiser than yourself in order that others may admire your wisdom, they will discover your ignorance.
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Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn. They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art.
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I seek forgiveness from Allah for the lack of my sincerity when I say I seek the forgiveness of Allah
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The democratic system is premised on trust in the masses' wisdom. We believe that the collective is wiser than its parts and that, at the end of the day, it shall make the right choices and take the right decisions.
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Fools learn wisdom through misfortune.
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The advantage of age is that you swap youth for wisdom. You're so full of insecurities when you're young. 'Who am I? What do I have to do for people to like me?' You get caught up in things. You get very emotional about things.
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You should not be afraid of failures, and not get enamored by success.
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If I am fool, it is, at least, a doubting one; and I envy no one the certainty of his self-approved wisdom.
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The highest morality may prove also to be the highest wisdom when the half-told story comes to be finished.
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Self-suggestion makes you master of yourself.
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Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late.
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Nothing can be better calculated to advance our interests and character than the establishment of a liberal and disinterested policy, enlightened by patriotism and guided by wisdom.
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Combine the extremes, and you will have the true center.
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America's freedom of religion, and freedom from religion, offers every wisdom tradition an opportunity to address our soul-deep needs: Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, secular humanism, agnosticism and atheism among others.
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Teach your children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.
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It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.
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I think it's nice to age gracefully. OK, you lose the youth, a certain stamina and dewy glow, but what you gain on the inside as a human being is wonderful: the wisdom, the acceptance and the peace of mind. It's a fair exchange.
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Remarkable contributions are typically spawned by a passionate commitment to transcendent values such as beauty, truth, wisdom, justice, charity, fidelity, joy, courage and honor.
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Follow your instincts. That's where true wisdom manifests itself.
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Patience is the companion of wisdom.
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Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech cantankerous.
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Pain makes man think. Thought makes man wise. Wisdom makes life endurable.
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They must understand that – Elrond and the Council, and the great Lords and Ladies with all their wisdom. Their plans have gone wrong. I can't be their Ring-bearer. Not without Mr. Frodo.
