Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time.
— Theodore Roosevelt
I see a wiser person than when I was younger: having babies, and passing 30, were the turning points. What women in their 40s - I am 39 - lack in gorgeousness, they make up for in wisdom. I love ageing, despite the drawbacks - thinner, drier skin.
— Thandie Newton
And then you have the orangutans. There's a softness, and kindness, and there's almost this glint of humor that lies behind everything that they do. There's this old-soul sort of wisdom. And with that comes this cool, unhurried, decisive, linear way of moving through space.
— Terry Notary
It used to be, it is accepted scientific wisdom the Earth is flat, and this heretic named Galileo was branded a denier.
— Ted Cruz
When I speak of family, I immediately think of a support system who can give you a reality check when you need it: a mirror reflection of myself. I believe that we are a result of our family - the people who encourage us and tell us the truth about who we are which helps us to grow through their advice and wisdom.
— Tasha Smith
Outside of hip-hop, it was in comics that I most often found the aesthetics and wisdom of my world reflected.
— Ta-Nehisi Coates
But life is long. And it is the long run that balances the short flare of interest and passion.
— Sylvia Plath
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
At the end of the day, if you're not spanking your child and instilling in them the ideas of selflessness, servitude, and wisdom, you're probably looking at a future P. Diddy in the making (maybe even a Keith Olbermann - take your pick).
— Steven Crowder
The American people voted for a president, Donald Trump, who's very tough, very strong, very aggressive on terrorism, but at the same time smart. At the same time sophisticated. At the same time, heeding the wisdom of our founders who warned about entangling foreign engagement.
— Stephen Miller
The more one pleases everybody, the less one pleases profoundly.
— Stendhal
What a company's been earning doesn't mean anything. What you have to look at is what people think it's going to earn. If you can see something in two years is going to be entirely different than the conventional wisdom, that's how you make money.
— Stanley Druckenmiller
Once you label me you negate me.
— Soren Kierkegaard
Much wisdom often goes with fewest words.
— Sophocles
Wisdom outweighs any wealth.
Rich people without wisdom and learning are but sheep with golden fleeces.
— Solon
True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.
— Socrates
Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom.
— Theodore Isaac Rubin
By the time you've reached your sixties, you do know that one day you will die, and knowing that is at least the beginning of wisdom.
— Terry Pratchett
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
It is amazing that the wisdom of the chattering class to the Republicans is always, always, always 'Surrender your principles and agree with the Democrats.' That's been true for my entire lifetime.
Whether you're an athlete or a student, having an adult who believes in you and can give you advice and wisdom that is coming from a place of experience is an incredible asset to help guide you through your young life.
— Tara Lipinski
Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?
— T. S. Eliot
Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.
— Sydney J. Harris
I don't turn to greeting cards for wisdom and advice, but they are a fine reflection of the general drift of the culture.
— Susan Orlean
Doubt the conventional wisdom unless you can verify it with reason and experiment.
— Steve Albini
The greater the step forward in knowledge, the greater is the one taken backward in search of wisdom.
— Stephen Gardiner
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
This ceremony and the intellectual aura associated with the Nobel Prizes have grown from the wisdom of a practical chemist who wrote a remarkable will.
— Stanford Moore
If you were to offer a thirsty man all wisdom, you would not please him more than if you gave him a drink.
Quick decisions are unsafe decisions.
Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way.
The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.
— Solomon Ibn Gabirol
Be as you wish to seem.
In order to have wisdom we must have ignorance.
— Theodore Dreiser
Knowing that you are going to die is, I suspect, the beginning of wisdom.
I had more energy at 50. On the other hand, at 75, I've probably got a little more wisdom and good judgment than I had at 50 because I've got more experience. But I haven't really changed. I'm still driven by the same philosophy.
— Ted Turner
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
I went through a phase in my 20s when I was overdosing on self-help books, so it was really refreshing to read 'The Alchemist' because it was a novel, but it still had the same wisdom, wasn't patronising and didn't tell you how you should live your life.
— Tamzin Outhwaite
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
We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far.
— Swami Vivekananda
I do think that the standard media is controlled by the conventional wisdom about global warming. We've come to believe - from reading a lot of articles and talking to a lot of scientists - that there's another side to be heard.
— Steven Levitt
We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.
— Stephen Vincent Benet
Cynicism masquerades as wisdom, but it is the furthest thing from it. Because cynics don't learn anything. Because cynicism is a self-imposed blindness: a rejection of the world because we are afraid it will hurt us or disappoint us. Cynics always say 'no.' But saying 'yes' begins things. Saying 'yes' is how things grow.
— Stephen Colbert
I've always enjoyed doing challenging things and also challenging common wisdom.
— Stefan Hell
Only people who lack wisdom would say that a project should be pursued even if it leads to wanton destruction of forests.
— Sreenivasan
Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.
A short saying often contains much wisdom.
The best wisdom is earned through experience, particularly mistakes.
— Sophia Amoruso
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
