c2p-cmd/Good-Quotes-Authors huggingface dataset:
When you doubt, abstain.
— Ambrose Bierce
Conventional wisdom on government's role in inequality often has it backwards. Tax reforms have resulted in a more progressive federal income tax government transfer payments have become less progressive. 
— Paul Ryan
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.
— Thomas Carlyle
Though sages may pour out their wisdom's treasure, there is no sterner moralist than pleasure.
— Lord Byron
God knows and sees all. His wisdom and knowledge far outweighs mankind, and whether or not people ever recognize it - He is the creator. He is the giver of life, and only He has the power to take it away. That's why its imperative to submit to Him.
— Monica Johnson
The philosophy I love is very selective. It is really just the bit that is involved in a search for wisdom, and this means a short roll call of names; Socrates, Marcus Aurelius, Seneca, Epicurus, Montaigne, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche.
— Alain de Botton
I'm not an academic philosopher, and don't agree with the way the universities approach the subject. I'm a philosopher only in the very loose sense of someone interested in wisdom and well-being attained through reason. But I'm as interested in psychoanalysis and art as I am in philosophy.
— Alain de Botton
Much wisdom often goes with fewest words.
— Sophocles
Wisdom may best arise from a humbling reality.
— Michael Leunig
Nothing energizes me more than to burrow myself under a pile of received wisdom and emerge triumphant with the truth.
— Timothy Noah
Success is a wonderful thing, but it tends not to be the sort of experience that we learn from. We enjoy it; perhaps we even deserve it. But we don't acquire wisdom from it.
— Timothy Noah
I am deeply impressed with the gravity and wisdom with which most federal judges approach the responsibility of sentencing. It is a difficult, soul-searching task at best.
— Robert Kennedy
Sometimes you surprise yourself with what you can handle, and if you come out the other end with some wisdom, then it's not such a bad thing.
— Boy George
How do you rate works of genius? Partly by personal inclination, partly by accepted wisdom, partly by popularity.
— Robert Gottlieb
In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause.
— George Eliot
As great as Ed is, the wisdom out here is that he can't carry a movie. They'll pay him $3 million to be the second banana in Julia Roberts things. But they won't put up $3 million for an Ed Harris movie.
— George A. Romero
If you're a Supreme Court justice, the American people have elevated you to one of the highest offices in the land out of the goodness of their heart and out of deference to your legal wisdom. You get a lifetime appointment, limitless prestige, a great office, and what I have to assume is a very comfortable chair.
— Donna Brazile
At 17 years old, STG took me under its wing and shared its resources and wisdom with me, even allowing me to take part in a show at the Edinburgh Festival. Without STG and the Ramshorn Theatre, I would not have found access to the world of drama that I later made my profession.
— Peter Capaldi
Up until Trump announced his candidacy, the conventional wisdom was that you had to be a professional politician in order to run. You had to have a background that was politically scrubbed. In other words, smart people who didn't live perfect lives could never run.
— Mark Cuban
I want to dip my foot in some acting. And most definitely want to mentor upcoming artists and give them the wisdom that was given to me.
— Missy Elliott
To think ill of mankind and not wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue.
— William Hazlitt
I associate wisdom and grace with age.
— Christy Turlington
We know there is a deep reservoir of food wisdom out there, or else humans would not have survived to the extent we have. Much of this food wisdom is worth preserving and reviving and heeding.
— Michael Pollan
I always want to be a messenger, a person that, you know, that's not afraid to pass on wisdom.
— Mary J. Blige
Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.
— Alexander Pope
Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.
— George Santayana
The hunger for facile wisdom is the root of all false philosophy.
— George Santayana
What we call wisdom is the result of all the wisdom of past ages. Our best institutions are like young trees growing upon the roots of the old trunks that have crumbled away.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Rediscovering the wisdom of love and compassion may help us survive at a time when an increasingly balkanized world so badly needs it.
— Dean Ornish
In my own personal life, God plays a great role in the risk, because I pray before I go into the operating room for every case, and I ask him to give me wisdom, to help me to know what to do - and not only for operating, but for everything.
— Ben Carson
I pray before I go into the operating room for every case, and I ask him to give me wisdom, to help me to know what to do - and not only for operating, but for everything.
— Ben Carson
For all my education, accomplishments, and so called 'wisdom'... I can't fathom my own heart.
— Michael Caine
Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone.
— Horace
Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them in their mediocrity.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
What is the price of experience? Do men buy it for a song? Or wisdom for a dance in the street? No, it is bought with the price of all the man hath, his house, his wife, his children.
— William Blake
Global security can be formed or threatened by heads of state whose wisdom, folly and obsessions shape global events. But often it is the security practitioners, those rarely in the headlines but whose craft and energy quietly break new ground, who keep us safe or put us in peril.
— Michael Hayden
To build a great company, which is a CEO's job, sometimes you have to stand up against conventional wisdom.
— Carly Fiorina
The wisdom of the crowds has peaked. Web 3.0 is taking what we've built in Web 2.0 - the wisdom of the crowds - and putting an editorial layer on it of truly talented, compensated people to make the product more trusted and refined.
— Jason Calacanis
Everyone talks about how, in your 30s, all of these growing pains transition into wisdom and you feel more self-assured and confident, but I think I had a bit of a jump-start on that at 27.
— Solange Knowles
Wisdom is that apprehension of heavenly things to which the spirit rises through love.
— Honore de Balzac
Arianna Huffington has exercised her renowned wisdom to give journalism another boost along the ever busier Internet. Her blog site promises to be an interesting challenge for those of us lucky enough to be invited to participate with our occasional contributions.
— Walter Cronkite
Of prosperity mortals can never have enough.
— Aeschylus
I'm not a mom, but I think the word 'mother' is about wisdom.
— Margaret Cho
You have to find out what's right for you, so it's trial and error. You are going to be all right if you accept realistic goals for yourself.
— Teri Garr
What if Barack Obama established a Presidential Advisory Committee that would meet once every couple of months, bringing together the former presidents for a conference in order to seek their collective wisdom? There is a wealth of experience in former presidents that generally goes untapped.
— Tony Campolo
Surely wisdom will come as we listen to learn from children, parents, partners, neighbors, Church leaders, and the Lord.
— Russell M. Nelson
Around '93, '94, the conventional wisdom about the Internet was that it was a toy for academics and researchers. So it was very, very underestimated for about two years.
— Marc Andreessen
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
In complete darkness, it is only knowledge and wisdom that separates us.
— Janet Jackson
Without wisdom, the future has no meaning, no valuable purpose.
— Herbie Hancock
You can practice to attain knowledge, but you can't practice to attain wisdom.
— Herbie Hancock
Don't ask for a million dollars. Ask for the stuff that'll get you a million dollars - your health, your brain, your sanity, wisdom. Prepare me for when I do get that million. Make sure I don't go crazy, make sure I help my family.
— Future
Conventional wisdom is not always the best wisdom.
— Doug Ducey
The wisdom of God is so great that He also knows exactly what I would think and do under every possible circumstance and situation, and he placed me in that state of life and situation best suited for my salvation.
— Mother Angelica
My abiding faith in the wisdom of our electorate is what gives me hope.
— Kapil Sibal
Wisdom consists not so much in knowing what to do in the ultimate as knowing what to do next.
— Herbert Hoover
Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack. We give it orders which make no sense.
— Henry Miller
It's received wisdom that the English are uniquely child-unfriendly.
— Julie Burchill
Moderation is the inseparable companion of wisdom, but with it genius has not even a nodding acquaintance.
— Charles Caleb Colton
There is this difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man, really is so; but he that thinks himself the wisest, is generally the greatest fool.
— Charles Caleb Colton
Doubt is the vestibule through which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom.
— Charles Caleb Colton
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
While conventional wisdom has traditionally sided against borrowing from retirement savings, sentiment has shifted toward borrowing from one's own assets with the realization that other forms of credit come at a much higher cost and often are not even available to borrowers with limited means and urgent needs.
— Elaine Chao
Where can we find greater structural clarity than in the wooden buildings of old? Where else can we find such unity of material, construction and form? here, the wisdom of whole generations is stored.
— Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
The Ohio Legislature's passed a law to allow concealed weapons in day care centers, but interesting: this same Legislature, in its wisdom, doesn't allow concealed weapons in the statehouse.
— Sherrod Brown
Focus on the mind and the soul. Read. Study. Enrol in a course of lectures. Pray. Become a member of a religious congregation. Study the Bible or other ancient works of wisdom.
— Jonathan Sacks
I don't know that you're able to measure your aggregate wisdom as you go through life. I can't say that I ever feel that I'm sitting on top of a growing mound of wisdom.
— Dylan Moran
It is a remarkable fact in the political history of man that there is scarcely an instance of a free constitutional government which has been the work exclusively of foresight and wisdom. They have all been the result of a fortunate combination of circumstances.
— John C. Calhoun
History does not repeat itself. Nor does it unfold in cycles. The real future is contingent, rich beyond imagining, a perennial gobsmack, tragic and glorious in equal measure; the pundits' future, spun of 'conventional wisdom,' is only a sucker punch to that common-sense fact.
— Rick Perlstein
If your writing collides with the conventional wisdom, there's going to be some kind of friction.
— Pankaj Mishra
Democracy, loudly upheld as a cure for much of the ailing world, has proved no guarantor of political wisdom, even if it remains the least bad form of government.
— Pankaj Mishra
Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men; but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass.
— Joseph Addison
The wisdom of God's Word is quite clear on believers being unequally yoked. And marrying someone who is not a Christian - who is not a daily disciple of Christ - is being unequally yoked, regardless of what their beliefs might be.
— Pat Robertson
My mother is a great source of advice and wisdom and consolation for me.
— Katherine Heigl
I'm now the elder in the position of doling out wisdom and trying to mend fences.
— Jane Fonda
Novels are the Socratic dialogues of our time. Practical wisdom fled from school wisdom into this liberal form.
— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
You can only make sense of the online world by going offline and by getting the wisdom and emotional clarity to know how to make the best use of the Internet.
— Pico Iyer
The conventional wisdom is that people come to the United States, and immigration is so great, and they say, 'America, what a great country.' And a lot of that is true.
— James Gray
I would like to do my own daily talk show. Wisdom is the gift of ageing no young person can have or buy it. My success was and is self-evident. I'm alive. I've lived. I've thrived and have grown as a person. I'm now healthier than ever. Who can argue with that? 
— Suzanne Somers
Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess, and yet all the honesty in the world ain't lawful tender for a loaf of bread.
— Josh Billings
Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe.
— Josh Billings
You should never ask a horse or an actor to do something they cannot do. Wisdom will teach you to find out what they can do and then make it easy for them.
— Tommy Lee Jones
Common wisdom dictates that the vice president should provide balance to the ticket by representing a different part of the country, another set of experiences, or a basketful of electoral votes.
— Madeleine M. Kunin
A lot of people tell me a lot of things about my conduct, my game, my future... but I try to stay away from their words of wisdom. I don't let it distract me. On the field, you will be facing the ball alone. If you fail, you will the only one to blame. So, you should be the one deciding for yourself.
— Virat Kohli
Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.
— Octavio Paz
Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two. A constant coming and going: wisdom lies in the momentary.
— Octavio Paz
Some wisdom you must learn from one who's wise.
— Euripides
The problem with Google is you have 360 degrees of omnidirectional information on a linear basis, but the algorithms for irony and ambiguity are not there. And those are the algorithms of wisdom.
— William Hurt
My dad was a man of great wisdom in his short time here.
— Bonnie Hunt
To advise is not to compel.
— Anton Chekhov
The plan was criticized by some retired military officers embedded in TV studios. But with every advance by our coalition forces, the wisdom of that plan becomes more apparent.
— Dick Cheney
I've matured as a writer and human being. I've got some wisdom under my belt.
— Carlene Carter
When I was at drama school, I wanted to change the world, and thought I had some great wisdom to impart to people about humanity. Now that I'm older, I know enough to realise that I know nothing at all.
— Michael Sheen
You must accept responsibility for your actions, but not the credit for your achievements.
— Denis Waitley
No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool. Writers, alas, have to be fools in public, while the rest of the human race can cover its tracks.
— Erica Jong
Spending two years on my uncle's ranch in Montana as a young man gave me the wisdom and the thrust to do westerns.
— Robert Duvall
Many spiritual teachers - in Buddhism, in Islam - have talked about first-hand experience of the world as an important part of the path to wisdom, to enlightenment.
— bell hooks
I love being. There's so much wisdom in it. You wake up in the morning and you think, Hey, isn't it great just being?
— Gwyneth Paltrow
Outside of hip-hop, it was in comics that I most often found the aesthetics and wisdom of my world reflected.
— Ta-Nehisi Coates
Real history is far more complex and interesting than the simplistic summaries presented in Wikipedia articles. Knowing this allows you to question received wisdom, to challenge 'facts' 'everybody' knows to be true, and to imagine worlds and characters worthy of our rich historical heritage and our complex selves.
— Ken Liu
The blowback against a bailout of Lehman would have been fierce. It is often forgotten, but the prevailing wisdom the day after Lehman fell was that its collapse was a good thing.
— Andrew Ross Sorkin
In science, as in art, and, as I believe, in every other sphere of human activity, there may be wisdom in a multitude of counsellors, but it is only in one or two of them.
— Thomas Huxley
Thinking is not enough. There is no final enough of wisdom, experience - any... thing.
— William S. Burroughs
We are all responsible to Jesus first, and then, under him, to various other persons and offices. Discerning the path of love and obedience when two or more of these submissive relationships collide is a call to humble, Bible-saturated, spiritual wisdom.
— John Piper
I always see where I didn't do things the right way. I only see the heavy lifting. That's a bit of my wisdom, if you want to call it that.
— Vera Wang
If to live is to progress, if you are lucky, from foolishness to wisdom, then to write novels is to broadcast the various stages of your foolishness.
— Jane Smiley
We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already.
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
It is almost everywhere the case that soon after it is begotten the greater part of human wisdom is laid to rest in repositories.
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
It may almost be a question whether such wisdom as many of us have in our mature years has not come from the dying out of the power of temptation, rather than as the results of thought and resolution.
— Anthony Trollope
Full of wisdom are the ordinations of fate.
— Friedrich Schiller
As we work to reweave the strands of connection, we can be supported by the wisdom and lovingkindness of others.
— Sharon Salzberg
There's a conventional wisdom that says that strategic thinking is much more important than relationship building, which doesn't seem to be nearly as highly valued as it should be, based on what some of the leaders that I've spoken with have said to me.
— Tom Rath
I don't think you can come into your wisdom until you have made mistakes on your own skin and felt them in reality of your own life.
— Elizabeth Gilbert
Now our founding fathers had the wisdom to know that social acceptance and popularity were fleeing, and that this country's principles needed to be rooted in strengths greater than the passions and the emotions of the times.
— Chris Christie
Saudi Arabia is a puritanical state that claims a monopoly of wisdom and virtue.
— James Buchan
I'm exploring the maturity, the wisdom that just comes from having gone around the sun 50 times. My experience is, 'Oh, I'm never really going to get it right. I'm never going to get it done. But that's not the point here.' The point is the journey.
— Melissa Etheridge
In the end, the real wisdom of menopause may be in questioning how fun or even sane this chore wheel called modern life actually is.
— Sandra Tsing Loh
After 25-plus years as a lawyer, prosecutor, and defense attorney, I have developed a deep appreciation for both the wisdom of the law and the role that jurists play in framing the rights and responsibilities that define our society.
— Eliot Spitzer
I listen to the older people who talk to me. I call them my old heads, people with a lot of wisdom. They'll teach you a lot if you listen.
— Stefon Diggs
There's a real wisdom to not saying a thing.
— Willem Dafoe
I'd love to spend more time on the Isle of Man. I love the anonymity of putting on a boiler suit and going down to buy parts for the compressor. And Norman Wisdom's a neighbour I salute him occasionally. 
— John Rhys-Davies
I'm not wise, but the beginning of wisdom is there; it's like relaxing into - and an acceptance of - things.
— Tina Turner
Why would anyone walk through life satisfied with the light from the candle of their own understanding when, by reaching out to our Heavenly Father, they could experience the bright sun of spiritual knowledge that would expand their minds with wisdom and fill their souls with joy?
— Dieter F. Uchtdorf
It's really important, whether you're a conservative or a liberal, to always challenge the conventional wisdom, which is what I've tried to do in all my work.
— Nina Easton
It's become glib political conventional wisdom in Washington that a massive spending plan will provide a parachute rescue for a cliff-diving economy - landing it safely and with strong enough legs to move toward a healthy future.
— Nina Easton
The beauty of age is we grow, we learn. We have more wisdom. And as much as the youth-glorifying Hollywood would like us to believe, it's nothing. They're wrong.
— Sherilyn Fenn
Most people see what they expect to see, what they want to see, what they've been told to see, what conventional wisdom tells them to see - not what is right in front of them in its pristine condition.
— Vincent Bugliosi
I'm grateful for my lines of wisdom. Of course, there are days when I think: 'Oh my gawd, I look a bit tired.' But I can pull it together if I have to.
— Twiggy
For the Holy Ghost blesses us with optimism and wisdom at times of challenge that we simply cannot muster on our own.
— Sheri L. Dew
When I was born, the wisdom was that homosexuality was an illness; that it was caused largely by somebody's mother, and a distorted relationship with the mother. And now, as I live my life - married to a husband, with kids - it's an identity.
— Andrew Solomon
Once I turned 35, I got the bonus of some wisdom and began to accept life on its own terms.
— Mike Myers
Whatever one thinks of the wisdom of building a mosque near Ground Zero, this controversy now affords us an immense opportunity to examine who we are as a people. It provides us with the opportunity to get back to our foundational ideals, which have always stood as a beacon for the rest of the world.
— Hamza Yusuf
I'm at the transition place myself, still playing high school girls but moving to a stage when I'm playing older roles and going to the places of stillness and wisdom and knowledge and weight. It's exciting and scary.
— Tatiana Maslany
Wisdom alone is true ambition's aim, wisdom is the source of virtue and of fame; obtained with labour, for mankind employed, and then, when most you share it, best enjoyed.
— Alfred North Whitehead
I knew that I had it tough compared to children around me. But I felt like I needed it. I think I had the wisdom as a child to know that it would help me later on.
— Troy Polamalu
India and China have not shied away from addressing boundary questions, have wisdom to find a fair and mutually acceptable solution... We have been able to put all issues on the table.
— Li Keqiang
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
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
The left has come to regard common sense - the traditional wisdom and folkways of the community - as an obstacle to progress and enlightenment.
— Christopher Lasch
Consider this point. It is a main point of true wisdom. Whenever there is an execution of purpose, there must be an agent.
— Adoniram Judson
Rarely promise, but, if lawful, constantly perform.
— William Penn
The wisdom and experience of older people is a resource of inestimable worth. Recognizing and treasuring the contributions of older people is essential to the long-term flourishing of any society.
— Daisaku Ikeda
What the tech industry often forgets is that with age comes wisdom. Older workers are usually better at following direction, mentoring, and leading.
— Vivek Wadhwa
I understand that there's a certain energy in youth, no question, in terms of pursuing jobs. But there is wisdom in age. It's too bad that the two can't come together because I do think that people are dropped from what they're really good at too soon.
— Rene Russo
A musical, like most religions, provides the audience or followers with a sense of belonging. Religious services, on the other hand, with their staged performances, invigorating songs, popular wisdom and shared experience, are almost a form of community theater.
— Lisa Randall
It is one thing to oppose a bill and say, 'Well, I'm smarter than the other side and have more wisdom than they do,' but it is another thing to oppose a law because it violates the very principles upon which this country was founded.
— Scott Garrett
Trouble shared is trouble halved.
— Lee Iacocca
I believe the reason we sleep is not just to allow our body to rest but that it is to allow this inner wisdom to speak to us through symbols. This includes the body or somatic problems as well as psychological ones. Dreams and drawings are useful in diagnosing physical conditions.
— Bernie Siegel
I'm always feeling like I'm lacking wisdom. This reassurance that one can ask God for that and it will happen is certainly reassuring to me.
— Francis Collins
None knows the weight of another's burden.
— George Herbert
I'm particularly interested in black swan events: unprecedented surprises that destroy the conventional wisdom about how the world works.
— Paolo Bacigalupi
Women's strength, women's industry, women's wisdom are humankind's greatest untapped resource. The challenge then for U.N. Women is to show our diverse constituencies how this resource can be effectively tapped in ways that benefit us all.
— Michelle Bachelet
We simply can no longer afford to deny the full potential of one half of the population. The world needs to tap into the talent and wisdom of women. Whether the issue is food security, economic recovery, health, or peace and security, the participation of women is needed now more than ever.
— Michelle Bachelet
'Focusing' is no conventional repackaging of self-help wisdom. It is at once a manual and a philosophy. It talks about the body's wisdom, the steps of the focusing technique, how to discover the richness in others by learning to listen.
— Marilyn Ferguson
When you're used to being prepared to reject conventional wisdom, it leaves you open to learn more.
— Mayim Bialik
If everything is going well in my life then I start to read the papers more and I start to worry about everything I can't deal with. They say wisdom is knowing what you can fix and what you can't change. I'm very unwise.
— Josh Hartnett
If you and I desire the blessings of life, of health, of vigor of body and mind; if we desire the destroying angel to pass us by, as he did in the days of the children of Israel, we must obey the Word of Wisdom; then God is bound, and the blessing shall come to us.
— Heber J. Grant
Kabbalah is all about change. It isn't about being proud of our good qualities: the wisdom is about transforming our darkness into light.
— Yehuda Berg
The soul's joy lies in doing.
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
Ending poverty calls for humility, honesty, freedom from ideology and refusal to accept cruel simplicities about anyone's human potential. It requires listening to the wisdom and cutting the nonsense from both the Right and the Left.
— Donella Meadows
As with many other folk beliefs, 'feng-shui' undoubtedly incorporates some scientifically correct observation or received wisdom based on direct experience of natural phenomena; but it needs to be dealt with skeptically as a credible system of thought. Some feng-shui prescriptions can certainly lead to desirable results.
— Martin Filler
For me, good films and good books are irreducible to a lesson. You can't just kind of translate them into one statement. On the contrary, the more you do that, the less wisdom in art there is.
— Pawel Pawlikowski
Few of the many wise apothegms which have been uttered have prevented a single foolish action.
— Thomas Babington Macaulay
Never say never, but the thought of electively cutting oneself is beyond my grasp, and I also object to it politically. Denying the lines on our faces makes a comment about age and wisdom I don't care to make.
— Debra Winger
Consensus wisdom has it that all modern commercial fantasy novels fall into two camps: those derived from J.R.R. Tolkien and those derived from Mervyn Peake. The 'Lord of the Rings' template or the 'Gormenghast' mold.
— Paul Di Filippo
As a parent and a citizen, I'll take a Bill Gates (or Warren Buffett) over Steve Jobs every time. If we must have billionaires, better they should ignore Jobs's example and instead embrace the morality and wisdom of the great industrialist-philanthropist Andrew Carnegie.
— Eric Alterman
People always blame the girl; she should have said no. A monosyllable, but conventional wisdom has always been that boys can't manage it.
— Anna Quindlen
It takes a great man to give sound advice tactfully, but a greater to accept it graciously.
— Logan Pearsall Smith
If you do not express your own original ideas, if you do not listen to your own being, you will have betrayed yourself.
— Rollo May
The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages is preserved into perpetuity by a nation's proverbs, fables, folk sayings and quotations.
— William Feather
With age comes a greater wisdom, an ease and comfort with oneself.
— Cherie Lunghi
Your art kind of changes as you get older, by nature of the fact that you're hopefully gaining wisdom and you're starting to watch things with a better overview.
— Sheryl Crow
In life, all good things come hard, but wisdom is the hardest to come by.
— Lucille Ball
When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.
— Quintilian
'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.
— Jessye Norman
Self-suggestion makes you master of yourself.
— W. Clement Stone
You are a product of your environment. So choose the environment that will best develop you toward your objective. Analyze your life in terms of its environment. Are the things around you helping you toward success - or are they holding you back?
— W. Clement Stone
All free governments are managed by the combined wisdom and folly of the people.
— James A. Garfield
People used to grow up in small communities where folk wisdom was passed down. But we don't live there anymore. We can't go next door to your aunt and ask her for the answers.
— Clarissa Pinkola Estes
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.
— Peter Guber
It is always our own self that we find at the end of the journey. The sooner we face that self, the better.
— Ella Maillart
The difference between chirping out of turn and a faux pas depends on what kind of a bar you're in.
— Wilson Mizner
The more I work with the body, keeping my assumptions in a temporary state of reservation, the more I appreciate and sympathize with a given disease. The body no longer appears as a sick or irrational demon, but as a process with its own inner logic and wisdom.
— George MacDonald
I've always shied away from conventional wisdom, though I know the power of it.
— Peter Jennings
It's not the having, it's the getting.
— Elizabeth Taylor
It is while you are patiently toiling at the little tasks of life that the meaning and shape of the great whole of life dawn on you.
— Phillips Brooks
We learned in World War II that no single nation holds a monopoly on wisdom, morality or right to power, but that we must fight for the weak and promote democracy.
— Joe Baca
You lose or you win the fight - and anything in life - in your mind. I can look at how the person walks, how he speaks, his expressions. It's a wisdom. Eyes are the mirror of the soul. So you can read a lot.
— Wladimir Klitschko
I probably wouldn't be a songwriter if I didn't grow up the way I did. It was difficult and it was at times very scary to grow up in a household so unsettled and at times very violent. But, it also, I guess it earned me a sort of wisdom at a young age that's served me well.
— Ray LaMontagne
Eventually, we reach the point where we start to realize that we are not going to find peace, contentment, happiness, strength, fearlessness - all of the things that in our heart of hearts we wish we had - outside of us.
— Guy Finley
There is a trade off - as you grow older you gain wisdom but you lose spontaneity.
— Kenny Rogers
If you want to go east, don't go west.
— Ramakrishna
Even youngish men can acquire wisdom as time goes by.
— John Bercow
Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom.
— Walter Benjamin
It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own.
— William Ralph Inge
You make a product, and you put it out, and you do it with as much excellence and also wisdom as possible, and then it's the Lord that drives it and determines where it will go.
— David A. R. White
The wisdom of the wise is an uncommon degree of common sense.
— Dean Inge
It is much more difficult to measure nonperformance than performance.
— Harold S. Geneen
The more I draw and write, the more I realise that accidents are a necessary part of any creative act, much more so than logic or wisdom. Sometimes a mistake is the only way of arriving at an original concept, and the history of successful inventions is full of mishaps, serendipity and unintended results.
— Shaun Tan
I am a poor student sitting at the feet of giants, yearning for their wisdom and begging for lessons that might one day make me a complete artist, so that if all goes well, I may one day sit beside them.
— Rod Taylor
Except for the grace of God, I would be nobody - and that grace is the opposite of merit - human labour, education or human wisdom.
— T. B. Joshua
I think there is a complicated side effect to overcoming evil in that we are forever changed by it. I think after we ingest some of the cruelty of the world, it takes years off of our lives, but it also gives us wisdom and a little grace, hopefully a sense of compassion.
— Adam Rapp
Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.
— Lactantius
Wisdom and goodness are twin-born, one heart must hold both sisters, never seen apart.
— William Dean Howells
The Divine wisdom has given us prayer, not as a means whereby to obtain the good things of earth, but as a means whereby we learn to do without them; not as a means whereby we escape evil, but as a means whereby we become strong to meet it.
— Frederick William Robertson
All human wisdom works and has worries and grief as reward.
— Johann Georg Hamann
The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living, which are to be desired when dying.
— Norman Douglas
The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.
— Solomon Ibn Gabirol
It is not from reason that justice springs, but goodness is born of wisdom.
— Maurice Maeterlinck
When I can look life in the eyes, grown calm and very coldly wise, life will have given me the truth, and taken in exchange - my youth.
— Sara Teasdale
Perhaps too much of everything is as bad as too little.
— Edna Ferber
You can't sweep other people off their feet, if you can't be swept off your own.
— Clarence Day
One of the advantages of having gone to Penn State was having had a scholar for a mentor - Philip Young. Also, a professional writer named Philip Klass taught there. He was a science fiction writer whose pseudonym was William Tenn. As a professional writer, he brought wisdom to teaching because he'd done it for a living.
— David Morrell
People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way.
— A. C. Benson
However great an evil immorality may be, we must not forget that it is not without its beneficial consequences. It is only through extremes that men can arrive at the middle path of wisdom and virtue.
— Wilhelm von Humboldt
To comprehend the Wisdom of this Injunction the better, and explain the Duty before us, it should be considered, that Government is the only Means by which human Happiness can be attained.
— Charles Inglis
Repeat anything often enough and it will start to become you.
— Tom Hopkins
But the law of God came from heaven indeed. God wrote it with his finger, it is the fountain of all wisdom, and therefore shall it continue for ever, and never have an end.
— John Jewel
They are few in the midst of an overwhelming mass of brute force, and their submission is wisdom; but for a nation like England to submit to be robbed by any invader who chooses to visit her shores seemed to me to be nonsense.
— George Combe
He who devotes sixteen hours a day to hard study may become at sixty as wise as he thought himself at twenty.
— Mary Wilson Little
Wisdom prepares for the worst, but folly leaves the worst for the day when it comes.
— Richard Cecil
Nobility of spirit has more to do with simplicity than ostentation, wisdom rather than wealth, commitment rather than ambition.
— Riccardo Muti
We don't pray for the land. We pray for the humans, all humans... starting with the president, Mohammed Morsi, and all officials, and for God to give everyone wisdom and responsibility to manage the affairs of this country and its people in true Egyptian spirit.
— Pope Theodoros II
I always prayed that God would give me the wisdom and the vision to do the things on this earth that I was supposed to do to express His life and love and His will.
— Billy Ray Cyrus
Virtues are acquired through endeavor, which rests wholly upon yourself.
— Sidney Lanier
If the highest things are unknowable, then the highest capacity or virtue of man cannot be theoretical wisdom.
— Leo Strauss
Public opinion is no more than this: what people think that other people think.
— Alfred Austin
Wisdom is knowing what to do next virtue is doing it. 
— David Starr Jordan
And it is no less true, that personal security and private property rest entirely upon the wisdom, the stability, and the integrity of the courts of justice.
— Joseph Story
He dares to be a fool, and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.
— James Huneker
The most excellent and divine counsel, the best and most profitable advertisement of all others, but the least practiced, is to study and learn how to know ourselves. This is the foundation of wisdom and the highway to whatever is good.
— Pierre Charron
Instead of looking at life as a narrowing funnel, we can see it ever widening to choose the things we want to do, to take the wisdom we've learned and create something.
— Liz Carpenter
If you believe the doctors, nothing is wholesome; if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent; if you believe the military, nothing is safe.
— Lord Salisbury
A judge's role is to ensure that the legislature remains within the limits of its assigned authority under the Constitution. Judges have no authority to second-guess the wisdom of the value judgments and policy choices the legislature has made.
— Paul Watford
The result showed the wisdom of your orders.
— John Bigelow
Lord, bless me with the ability to achieve all that I can, and the wisdom to realize it doesn't all have to be by tomorrow!
— William Eardley IV
The cars we drive say a lot about us.
— Alexandra Paul
See, when you drive home today, you've got a big windshield on the front of your car. And you've got a little bitty rearview mirror. And the reason the windshield is so large and the rearview mirror is so small is because what's happened in your past is not near as important as what's in your future.
— Joel Osteen
It's a never ending battle of making your cars better and also trying to be better yourself.
— Dale Earnhardt
The fact is I don't drive just to get from A to B. I enjoy feeling the car's reactions, becoming part of it.
— Enzo Ferrari
Maybe the bike is more dangerous, but the passion for the car for me is second to the bike.
— Valentino Rossi
Cars are the sculptures of our everyday lives.
— Chris Bangle
I've always been asked, 'What is my favorite car?' and I've always said 'The next one.'
— Carroll Shelby
It's like driving a car at night. You never see further than your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.
— E. L. Doctorow
Everything in life is somewhere else, and you get there in a car.
— E. B. White
I race to win. If I am on the bike or in a car it will always be the same.
— Valentino Rossi
Shoes make an outfit they're like rims for a car. 
— Omari Hardwick
Television, radio, social media. The 24/7 news cycle plows forward mercilessly on our desks, in our cars and in our pockets. Thousands and thousands of messages and voices bombard us from the moment we wake, fighting for our attention. All we see and hear, all day long, is news. And most of it is bad.
— Joseph Prince
A racing car is an animal with a thousand adjustments.
— Mario Andretti
My wife wants sex in the back of the car and she wants me to drive.
— Rodney Dangerfield
Once you become successful, people know where you live, the type of house you live in, the kind of car you drive, the clothes you wear, and so it would be patronising to go and talk like a welder. Welding's a mystery to me now. You can't go back, your life changes every day.
— Billy Connolly
A new car is not going to change your life.
— Monica Ali
Whether you live in a city or a small town, and whether you drive a car, take the bus or ride a train, at some point in the day, everyone is a pedestrian.
— Anthony Foxx
People think getting a new partner is like getting a new car.
— Orlando Bloom
We at BMW do not build cars as consumer objects, just to drive from A to B. We build mobile works of art.
— Chris Bangle
Now, personally, I like a car with some sort of character.
— Richard Hammond
I will never shave off my beard and moustache. I did once, for charity, but my wife said, 'Good grief, how awful, you look like an American car with all the chrome removed.'
— Rolf Harris
The year most of my high school friends and I got our driver's permits, the coolest thing one could do was stand outside after school and twirl one's car keys like a lifeguard whistle. That jingling sound meant freedom and power.
— Sloane Crosley
I hate the hand that comes out of a car and just drops litter in the street. I hate that! For some reason, it just fills me with fury! It's just utter laziness, lack of interest in other people, lack of interest in the planet, in the hedgehog who might eat the plastic bag, it's a lack of concern.
— Joanna Lumley
Life is a gamble. You can get hurt, but people die in plane crashes, lose their arms and legs in car accidents; people die every day. Same with fighters: some die, some get hurt, some go on. You just don't let yourself believe it will happen to you.
— Muhammad Ali
Yeah, it's risky, but no more risky than driving a car.
— Cory Lidle
If you saw a dog going to be crushed under a car, wouldn't you help him?
— Oskar Schindler
A doctor is not a mechanic. A car doesn't react with a mechanic, but a human being does.
— Randa Haines
I take cabs if I need to get somewhere or I take car service. I don't drive, I wouldn't mind riding a bike... People think that because you become an entertainer you gotta have this rock star thug image. I'm an artist, man. I'm going to live like an artist.
— ASAP Rocky
Museums are like the quiet car of the world. It's a place you can come to escape, where there's authenticity, there's uniqueness, there's calm, there's physicality.
— Thomas P. Campbell
We have lost our vision for the future. Before, we say, 'Nothing will be the same. Cars will fly, and we go to the end of the universe.' We have this kind of naive but exciting idea of the future. Now, the vision has been reduced to ways to select our garbage and how to survive global warming.
— Jean-Michel Jarre
The majority of my interactions with police were not good. There were a few good ones who were actually protecting the community. But then you have ones from the Valley. They never met me in their life, but since I'm a kid in basketball shorts and a white T-shirt, they wanna slam me on the hood of the car. Sixteen years old.
— Kendrick Lamar
Engineers are behind the cars we drive, the pills we pop and the way we power our homes.
— James Dyson
I know a lot about cars, man. I can look at any car's headlights and tell you exactly which way it's coming.
— Mitch Hedberg
Only a crazy person wouldn't fear approaching a car with tinted windows during a late-night car stop, or pounding up a flight of stairs to execute a search warrant, or fast-roping from a helicopter down into hostile fire. Real agents, like real people, feel that fear in the pit of their stomachs.
— James Comey
When a police officer tells you to stay in the car, you stay in the car.
— Reese Witherspoon
I live a fairly simple life, and that didn't change much after I sold TechCrunch in 2010. I didn't buy a new house or even a new car. The one thing I did splurge on was a boat. Nothing too fancy or large.
— Michael Arrington
I think there are more politicians in favor of electric cars than against. There are still some that are against, and I think the reasoning for that varies depending on the person, but in some cases, they just don't believe in climate change - they think oil will last forever.
— Elon Musk
I don't want to die in a car accident. When I die it'll be a glorious day. It'll probably be a waterfall.
— River Phoenix
I had to stop driving my car for a while... the tires got dizzy.
— Steven Wright
Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work, driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for, in order to get to a job that you need so you can pay for the clothes, car and the house that you leave empty all day in order to afford to live in it.
— Ellen Goodman
And suddenly I realised that I was no longer driving the car consciously. I was driving it by a kind of instinct, only I was in a different dimension.
— Ayrton Senna
Family and God - that is what's important. Money, cars, those are things that come and go.
— Fabrice Muamba
The energy of the crowd is insane. Twenty thousand people. It's the biggest jolt of adrenaline. It's very hard to explain. You know the old story about the woman lifting the car off her kid? It's in that realm. You can actually hurt yourself and not know it.
— Tom Petty
Fast cars are my only vice.
— Michael Bay
Sense the blessings of the earth in the perfect arc of a ripe tangerine, the taste of warm, fresh bread, the circling flight of birds, the lavender color of the sky shining in a late afternoon rain puddle, the million times we pass other beings in our cars and shops and out among the trees without crashing, conflict, or harm.
— Jack Kornfield
It's that I don't like white paper backgrounds. A woman does not live in front of white paper. She lives on the street, in a motor car, in a hotel room.
— Helmut Newton
A lot of fun stuff happens when you go out on a bike compared to when you're in a car. You're more in the environment. It's enjoyable. Even when It's raining It's still fun.
— Stone Gossard
Thinking of possibilities is like driving a car on a freeway. You have an open road that stretches endlessly before you where your thoughts are not shackled. But when we say 'impossible,' we have already reached a dead-end in our minds. So dwell on possibilities to open up your horizon.
— Pankaj Patel
In Brussels, you are able to have a lot of appointments in a day. In Paris, you can have one, two, maybe three, but you spend all your time on the road, in the car or in the suburbs. In Brussels, everything is easy. It's not a very big city, and the people are very quiet and warm.
— Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt
When you are fitted in a racing car and you race to win, second or third place is not enough.
— Ayrton Senna
A lot of the songs start with an image. I was sitting there playing the guitar and I pictured this old, dirty green car, with the window rolled down, in the hot, hot, hot Texas heat, and this beautiful woman I knew when I was a kid sitting behind the wheel, looking out at me.
— Edie Brickell
I'm not trying to be new school and I'm not old school - I'm classic. There's a lot of new cars and there's a lot of old cars, but I'm just classic in doing what I do.
— LL Cool J