I'm very accepting with my age. It's like notches on your belt: experience, wisdom, and a different kind of beauty. There comes a day when you've become comfortable in your skin.
— Zoe Saldana
Sometimes in international politics, the better part of wisdom is to defer dangers rather than try to eliminate them altogether instantly.
— Zbigniew Brzezinski
You can observe a lot by watching.
— Yogi Berra
I imagine God to be like my father. My father was always the voice of certainty in my life. Certainty in the wisdom, certainty in the path, certainty always in God. For me God is certainty in everything. Certainty that everything is good and everything is God.
— Yehuda Berg
During the long process of history, by relying on our own diligence, courage and wisdom, Chinese people have opened up a good and beautiful home where all ethnic groups live in harmony and fostered an excellent culture that never fades.
— Xi Jinping
Better than the strength of men and horses is our wisdom.
— Xenophanes
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
The difference between chirping out of turn and a faux pas depends on what kind of a bar you're in.
— Wilson Mizner
Wisdom is oftentimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar.
— William Wordsworth
My aim, then, was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us. Fear is the beginning of wisdom.
— William Tecumseh Sherman
Rarely promise, but, if lawful, constantly perform.
— William Penn
We do not sit as a superlegislature to weigh the wisdom of legislation.
— William O. Douglas
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
— William James
It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own.
— William Inge
The seat of knowledge is in the head; of wisdom, in the heart. We are sure to judge wrong, if we do not feel right.
— William Hazlitt
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
Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more.
— William Cowper
Champions invariably have fervent philosophical beliefs. Philosophy, in its simplest terms, means 'the love of wisdom.'
— Zig Ziglar
I think I got a lot of life skills; I got a lot of wisdom; I've seen a lot of bad things happen to a lot of good people.
— Young Jeezy
If the world were perfect, it wouldn't be.
Kabbalah is all about change. It isn't about being proud of our good qualities: the wisdom is about transforming our darkness into light.
For myself, I think that those who cultivate wisdom and believe themselves able to instruct their fellow-citizens as to their interests are least likely to become partisans of violence. They are too well aware that to violence attach enmities and dangers, whereas results as good may be obtained by persuasion safely and amicably.
— Xenophon
It isn't right to judge strength as better than good wisdom.
I think the last album I bought was a very beautiful album called 'Lost Wisdom' by Mount Eerie featuring Julie Doiron, and I bought it direct from Phil Elverum via his website. It's cool you can do that now with the Internet.
— Withered Hand
To profit from good advice requires more wisdom than to give it.
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.
— William Whitehead
To keep your secret is wisdom; to expect others to keep it is folly.
— William Samuel Johnson
He who is taught to live upon little owes more to his father's wisdom than he who has a great deal left him does to his father's care.
Until there are tangible metrics for quantifying the real value of a token's utility, the gap between value and valuation will continue to defy conventional wisdom and conventional valuation methods.
— William Mougayar
Strength and wisdom are not opposing values.
— William J. Clinton
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
The future has already arrived. It's just not evenly distributed yet.
— William Gibson
Your law may be perfect, your knowledge of human affairs may be such as to enable you to apply it with wisdom and skill, and yet without individual acquaintance with men, their haunts and habits, the pursuit of the profession becomes difficult, slow, and expensive.
— William Dunbar
They whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed.
Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech cantankerous.
— Zhuangzi
Sometimes I am happy and sometimes not. I am, after all, a human being, you know. And I am glad that we are sometimes happy and sometimes not. You get your wisdom working by having different emotions.
— Yoko Ono
There is no wisdom of man that can change men or change nations; it is the power and wisdom of God that can.
— Yemi Osinbajo
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.
— Yair Lapid
The sweetest of all sounds is praise.
The best wisdom comes from the hardest struggle.
— Xavier Rudd
I have sympathy for young people, for their growing pains, but I balk when these growing pains are pushed into the foreground, when you make these young people the only vehicles of life's wisdom.
— Wislawa Szymborska
Contrary to conventional wisdom, the blue blazer's a bit of a loose cannon. A suit decided long ago what it wanted to be, and it doesn't want to hear your ideas, but a blue blazer only got around to half the job. So it leaves it up to you to find its bottoms. Gray slacks, blue jeans, patterns, white pants and different blue shades all work.
— Willie Geist
Man's wisdom is his best friend; folly his worst enemy.
— William Temple
Thinking is not enough. There is no final enough of wisdom, experience - any... thing.
— William S. Burroughs
The philosophies of one age have become the absurdities of the next, and the foolishness of yesterday has become the wisdom of tomorrow.
— William Osler
This, and this alone, is Christianity, a universal holiness in every part of life, a heavenly wisdom in all our actions, not conforming to the spirit and temper of the world but turning all worldly enjoyments into means of piety and devotion to God.
— William Law
The wisdom of the wise is an uncommon degree of common sense.
To think ill of mankind and not wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue.
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
Wisdom and goodness are twin-born, one heart must hold both sisters, never seen apart.
— William Dean Howells
