Wisdom alone is true ambition's aim, wisdom the source of virtue, and of fame, obtained with labour, for mankind employed, and then, when most you share it, best enjoyed.
However, I must not indulge in homespun wisdom here before so distinguished an assembly, especially as I am to be followed by a representative of science.
The 'wisdom of the crowds' is the most ridiculous statement I've heard in my life. Crowds are dumb.
This age thinks better of a gilded fool Than of a threadbare saint in wisdom's school.
Follow the wisdom of the great actor, James Cagney, you hit your mark, you look the other guy in the eye, and you tell the truth.
You want people walking away from the conversation with some kernel of wisdom or some kind of impact.
If they can prove that I am wrong by that time, I will give it up to their wisdom, but not after to any one's judgment, till I see the end of another year for the Lord will begin with a new century and I will see what he will do, before I will hearken to any man's judgment.
Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.
Remembering is painful, it's difficult, but it can be inspiring and it can give wisdom.
He read his mind. He's a strange sort of man, isn't he? It's not just the advice and the wisdom that he has.
All human wisdom works and has worries and grief as reward.
The current wisdom now is that if the three networks are covering the news the same way the difference is the anchor people. I think that won't be true in the future.
As far as feeling freedom in my career now versus five years ago... I think if I feel any more free it's simply because of the experiences that I've had, and the wisdom I've accumulated from that time.
It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.
I left school at 16 but I wish I'd gone to university - I think I would have studied English literature. I had a knack for that. But I don't think you have the kind of wisdom at 16 to make that decision.
To know one's self is wisdom, but not to know one's neighbors is genius.
The most important lesson of New Labour is this: Every time we made progress we did it by challenging the conventional wisdom.
I find the fact that billionaires are quoted as if the fact that they are billionaires gives them some kind of wisdom is outrageous.
Books should to one of these fours ends conduce, for wisdom, piety, delight, or use.
What's different now is that while political leaders used to give talking points to talk radio, now talk-radio hosts are giving talking points to political leaders. It's all part of the suffocating spin cycle we're in. In media, politics and publishing, the conventional wisdom is to play to this base.