Wisdom Quotes

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

Your hand has two sides. Be cautious to open your palm to a person else it will reveal your deeds. - Khurshid Alam

Your Face is so Beautiful, and the Sound of Your Words imparts intuitive wisdom. It is so long since this sparrow-hawk has had even a glimpse of water. - Sri Guru Granth Sahib

Your collective wisdom and support was not lost on FIFA. - Nelson Mandela

Your art kind of changes as you get older, by nature of the fact that you're hopefully gaining wisdom and you're starting to watch things with a better overview. - Sheryl Crow

Your aim will be knowledge and wisdom, not the reflected glamour of fame. - Abbott L. Lowell

You want people walking away from the conversation with some kernel of wisdom or some kind of impact. - Harry Dean Stanton

You try to manipulate the process. In Sacramento, I was very good at it, at getting legislation passed. And when I came to Washington I thought that I was going to approach it differently. That the conventional wisdom was such that you had to not be confrontational, not challenge too much, but understand that there was great tradition. - Maxine Waters

You seek for knowledge and wisdom, as I once did; and I ardently hope that the gratification of your wishes may not be a serpent to sting you,as mine has been. - Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

You see I'm semi-retired now and don't work all the time, only most of it! - Norman Wisdom