I probably wouldn't be a songwriter if I didn't grow up the way I did. It was difficult and it was at times very scary to grow up in a household so unsettled and at times very violent. But it also I guess it earned me a sort of wisdom at a young age that's served me well.

The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions.

Whether the aim is in heaven or on earth wisdom or wealth the essential condition of its pursuit and attainment is always security and order.

Analysts may be correct that the presidential election won't primarily turn on entitlements reform but by choosing Paul Ryan as his running mate Mitt Romney can contrary to conventional wisdom make it a winning issue and lay the foundation for a reform mandate when he wins.

Wisdom is keeping a sense of fallibility of all our views and opinions.

It is not from reason that justice springs but goodness is born of wisdom.

Wisdom finds its literary expression in wisdom literature.

This is perhaps the most profound meaning of the book of Job the best example of wisdom.

I do interviews because it's a chance to be myself. I sometimes wonder what I could have to say that would be of any interest. I don't have any great wisdom.

For the subtlest folly proceeds from the subtlest wisdom.

Theology in general seems to me a substitution of human ingenuity for divine wisdom.

Conventional wisdom holds that setting a timetable for getting American troops out of Iraq would be a mistake.

Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning but wisdom is like the sun.

It is now conventional wisdom that Americans do not care why we went to war in Iraq that it is enough that the world is better off without Saddam Hussein.

Every journey that is successful has culs-de-sac and speed bumps. I carry a wisdom gene through my life through the good the bad and the ugly.

After a gig I always head back to the hotel remembering granny's words of wisdom. I cancel the late-night pizza and watch the Jonathan Ross show instead.

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

Ask Elizabeth is a community of voices it's not me standing on a podium telling people how to run their lives it's girls helping each other sharing their wisdom and advice and I create a space for them to do it.

I'm someone who's done the opposite of whatever the received wisdom is to keep your career going into your 50s.

Clinton is a big personality who has led a big life and for some of the media conventional wisdom to boil it down to a view that 'all people are really interested in' are a few moments of madness in the Oval Office gets him the importance of the presidency and the significance of his life all wrong.

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.

I feel increasingly like age is very irrelevant. Quite often cynicism is confused with wisdom and my scorn is confused with a knowing which I don't have.

Even wisdom has to yield to self-interest.

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