Wisdom Quotes
The older I get the more wisdom I find in the ancient rule of taking first things first. A process which often reduces the most complex human problem to a manageable proportion.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
34th U.S. President
People usually compare the computer to the head of the human being. I would say that hardware is the bone of the head, the skull. The semiconductor is the brain within the head. The software is the wisdom. And data is the knowledge.
Masayoshi Son
Chief Executive Officer of SoftBank
To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.
Plutarch
Greek philosopher
Age is a terrible avenger. The lessons of life give you so much to work with, but by the time you've got all this great wisdom, you don't get to be young anymore.
Elizabeth Wurtzel
American writer
Our ascendancy of the past two centuries - first Europe and then the U.S. - has bred a western-centric mentality: the West is the fount of all wisdom. We think of ourselves as open-minded, but our sense of superiority has closed our minds. We never entertained the idea that China could surpass the U.S.
Martin Jacques
British journalist
With age comes a greater wisdom, an ease and comfort with oneself.
Cherie Lunghi
Film actress
I have no wisdom to share on dating.
Rachel Dratch
American actress
Mixing one's wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.
Bertolt Brecht
German theatre practitioner
Conventional wisdom holds that setting a timetable for getting American troops out of Iraq would be a mistake.
Nick Clooney
American journalist ‧ George Clooney's father
There's a lot of wisdom that my dad and my grandparents and my uncle have been able to impart on me, and what I've treasured the most is I've seen examples in my life of people embracing their creativity, not feeling insecure about their artistic inclinations.
Bryce Dallas Howard
American actress
When spirituality is the basis of your life, it gives you the strength, wisdom and courage to surmount the many storms of life that could destroy a weaker person who doesn't have this foundation.
Radhanath Swami
American guru
Has fortune dealt you some bad cards. Then let wisdom make you a good gamester.
Francis Quarles
English poet
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
Japanese-British novelist
For all my education, accomplishments, and so called 'wisdom'... I can't fathom my own heart.
Michael Caine
English actor
We need to hear stories from older women. There's a wealth of wisdom and real resilience there, but they're silenced.
Hannah Gadsby
Australian comedian
Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun.
Franz Grillparzer
Austrian writer
I feel like I've matured more musically than I have personally. But I totally embrace what becoming older has to offer. I find the wisdom that comes with each passing year is a trip.
Kirk Hammett
American musician
If we are not given the chance to forget, we are also not given the chance to recover our memories, to alter them with time, perspective, and wisdom. Forgetting, we can be ourselves beyond what the past has told us we are; we can evolve. That is the possibility we want from the future.
Caterina Fake
American entrepreneur and businesswoman
The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.
Khalil Gibran
Lebanese-American writer
The final wisdom of life requires not the annulment of incongruity but the achievement of serenity within and above it.
Reinhold Niebuhr
American theologian
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