Wisdom Quotes

The constitutions of Maryland and New York are founded in higher wisdom.

A few years ago you couldn’t go from TV to film. It was like a ‘no no’ but I believe when you find a plan and purpose that God has for your life, there’s not anything man can do to you. Especially when your faith is not really standing in the wisdom of man, you’re really standing in the wisdom of God.

Your aim will be knowledge and wisdom, not the reflected glamour of fame.

You know, it’s sort of common wisdom among New York publishers that short story collections don’t make money.

Wisdom and goodness are twin-born, one heart must hold both sisters, never seen apart.

Doubt the conventional wisdom unless you can verify it with reason and experiment.

What’s different now is that while political leaders used to give talking points to talk radio, now talk-radio hosts are giving talking points to political leaders. It’s all part of the suffocating spin cycle we’re in. In media, politics and publishing, the conventional wisdom is to play to this base.

Books should to one of these fours ends conduce, for wisdom, piety, delight, or use.

I find the fact that billionaires are quoted as if the fact that they are billionaires gives them some kind of wisdom is outrageous.

The most important lesson of New Labour is this: Every time we made progress we did it by challenging the conventional wisdom.