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

If to live is to progress if you are lucky from foolishness to wisdom then to write novels is to broadcast the various stages of your foolishness.

Economists often like startling theorems results which seem to run counter to conventional wisdom.

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.

The plan was criticized by some retired military officers embedded in TV studios. But with every advance by our coalition forces the wisdom of that plan becomes more apparent.

We all admire the wisdom of people who come to us for advice.

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

The weak have remedies the wise have joys superior wisdom is superior bliss.

It may almost be a question whether such wisdom as many of us have in our mature years has not come from the dying out of the power of temptation rather than as the results of thought and resolution.

One part of wisdom is knowing what you don't need anymore and letting it go.

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

He was gifted with the sly sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the rich.

Silence and reserve will give anyone a reputation for wisdom.

It's received wisdom that the English are uniquely child-unfriendly.

If an idea is indeed sensible it will eventually become just part of the accepted wisdom.

Spending two years on my uncle's ranch in Montana as a young man gave me the wisdom and the thrust to do westerns.

The most excellent and divine counsel the best and most profitable advertisement of all others but the least practiced is to study and learn how to know ourselves. This is the foundation of wisdom and the highway to whatever is good.

If you have a vaccine or an antidote that people can benefit from you're not going to want to keep it to yourself. You're going to want to spread that wisdom or whatever to as many people as you can so everybody can benefit from it.

Focus on the mind and the soul. Read. Study. Enrol in a course of lectures. Pray. Become a member of a religious congregation. Study the Bible or other ancient works of wisdom.

It has become part of the accepted wisdom to say that the twentieth century was the century of physics and the twenty-first century will be the century of biology.

I acknowledge the privilege of being alive in a human body at this moment endowed with senses memories emotions thoughts and the space of mind in its wisdom aspect.

Now our founding fathers had the wisdom to know that social acceptance and popularity were fleeing and that this country's principles needed to be rooted in strengths greater than the passions and the emotions of the times.

Now that I am sixty I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency.

Vanity can easily overtake wisdom. It usually overtakes common sense.