Preconceived notions are the locks on the door to wisdom.

The elegance of honesty needs no adornment.

You know you're old when you've lost all your marvels.

Preconceived notions are the locks on the door to wisdom.

If you want an accounting of your worth, count your friends.

Expect people to be better than they are; it helps them to become better. But don't be disappointed when they are not; it helps them to keep trying.

Some of the best lessons we ever learn are learned from past mistakes. The error of the past is the wisdom and success of the future.

What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?

To light one candle to God and another to the Devil is the principle of wisdom.

I have studied many philosophers and many cats. The wisdom of cats is infinitely superior.

Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.

Irony is the gaiety of reflection and the joy of wisdom.

More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.

Wisdom is the knowledge of good and evil, not the strength to choose between the two.

The clouds may drop down titles and estates, and wealth may seek us, but wisdom must be sought.

Books should to one of these fours ends conduce, for wisdom, piety, delight, or use.

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.

Kisses are a better fate than wisdom.

Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.

A great memory is never made synonymous with wisdom, any more than a dictionary would be called a treatise.

Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.

It is astonishing what force, purity, and wisdom it requires for a human being to keep clear of falsehoods.

To be satisfied with a little, is the greatest wisdom; and he that increaseth his riches, increaseth his cares; but a contented mind is a hidden treasure, and trouble findeth it not.

The most important lesson of New Labour is this: Every time we made progress we did it by challenging the conventional wisdom.

I've always shied away from conventional wisdom, though I know the power of it.

Age does not bring you wisdom, age brings you wrinkles.

Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.

Wisdom finds its literary expression in wisdom literature.

The final wisdom of life requires not the annulment of incongruity but the achievement of serenity within and above it.

Wisdom is a sacred communion.

Authority without wisdom is like a heavy ax without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish.

Writing is no dying art form in America because most published writers here accept the wisdom and the necessity of encouraging the talent that follows in their footsteps.

I continue to believe, contrary to the given wisdom, that it's more interesting to have an album - or, indeed, an individual song - which has variety rather than homogeneity.

Imagination allows us to escape the predictable. It enables us to reply to the common wisdom that we cannot soar by saying, "Just watch!"

The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all other woes of mankind, is wisdom. Teach a man to read and write, and you have put into his hands the great keys of the wisdom box. But it is quite another thing to open the box.

We do not sit as a superlegislature to weigh the wisdom of legislation.

The wisdom acquired with the passage of time is a useless gift unless you share it.

Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom.

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.

The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work.

Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that deceives them.

Old myths, old gods, old heroes have never died. They are only sleeping at the bottom of our mind, waiting for our call. We have need for them. They represent the wisdom of our race.

Science is always discovering odd scraps of magical wisdom and making a tremendous fuss about its cleverness.

Losing faith in your own singularity is the start of wisdom, I suppose; also the first announcement of death.

I have tried at every point to seek God's wisdom on the decisions I made, and I made it my business to speak up on behalf of the things God tells us are important to Him.

Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more.

God the Father, the supreme Architect, had already built this cosmic home we behold, the most sacred temple of His godhead, by the laws of His mysterious wisdom.

After the knowledge of, and obedience to, the will of God, the next aim must be to know something of His attributes of wisdom, power, and goodness as evidenced by His handiwork.

There is no knowledge, no light, no wisdom that you are in possession of, but what you have received it from some source.