Wisdom Quotes

In complete darkness, it is only knowledge and wisdom that separates us.

Mainstream media tend to just mouth the conventional wisdom, to see everything through the filter of right and left.

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.

Through mutual understanding, sincerity and goodwill, and with great wisdom and broad views, the leaders on both sides should jointly initiate new opportunities for peace, stability, cooperation and mutual benefit.

There is a trade off - as you grow older you gain wisdom but you lose spontaneity.

In my own personal life, God plays a great role in the risk, because I pray before I go into the operating room for every case, and I ask him to give me wisdom, to help me to know what to do - and not only for operating, but for everything.

The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.

Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future.

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

Many people have their reputations as reporters and analysts because they are on television, batting around conventional wisdom. A lot of these people have never reported a story.

What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes?

When you're used to being prepared to reject conventional wisdom, it leaves you open to learn more.

America's freedom of religion, and freedom from religion, offers every wisdom tradition an opportunity to address our soul-deep needs: Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, secular humanism, agnosticism and atheism among others.

To suppose more than one supreme Source of infinite wisdom, power, and all perfections, is to assert that there is no supreme Being in existence.

The first point of wisdom is to discern that which is false; the second, to know that which is true.

I always want to be a messenger, a person that, you know, that's not afraid to pass on wisdom.

Good men by nature, wish to know. I know that many will call this useless work... men who desire nothing but material riches and are absolutely devoid of that of wisdom, which is the food and only true riches of the mind.

The enemy of the conventional wisdom is not ideas but the march of events.

It is costly wisdom that is bought by experience.

I believe that 'passion' is another word for energy. That's it. What energizes you? And that - we naturally have a tremendous amount of body wisdom about that, and that every one of us has a internal fuel tank that is either empty or full. And if you're empty, you feel depleted. If you're full, you feel energized.