Top 457 Wisdom Quotes

If your writing collides with the conventional wisdom, there's going to be some kind of friction.

If your writing collides with the conventional wisdom, there's going to be some kind of friction.

Pankaj Mishra

It is plain to me that our prelates, in granting indulgences, do commonly blaspheme the wisdom of God.

It is plain to me that our prelates, in granting indulgences, do commonly blaspheme the wisdom of God.

John Wycliffe

The online musical universe has become Balkanized, with many sites focusing on minute niches. That works well for reaching very specific demographics, which is wonderful for advertising, but it flies in the face of the common wisdom that people's tastes have become more diverse as music of any description has become a mouse-click away.

Michael Azerrad

Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone.

Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone.

Baltasar Gracian

The ultimate wisdom which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed. There it lies, the simplest fact of the universe and at the same time the one which calls faith rather than reason.

The ultimate wisdom which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed. There it lies, the simplest fact of the universe and at the same time the one which calls faith rather than reason.

Hal Borland

Clearly older women and especially older women who have led an active life or elder women who successfully maneuver through their own family life have so much to teach us about sharing, patience, and wisdom.

Alice Walker

That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in another.

That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in another.

Adlai E. Stevenson

All human wisdom is summed up in two words; wait and hope.

All human wisdom is summed up in two words; wait and hope.

Alexandre Dumas

All of us, at certain moments of our lives, need to take advice and to receive help from other people.

All of us, at certain moments of our lives, need to take advice and to receive help from other people.

Alexis Carrel

Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in the way in which the man of practical wisdom would determine it.

Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in the way in which the man of practical wisdom would determine it.

Aristotle

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