It is while you are patiently toiling at the little tasks of life that the meaning and shape of the great whole of life dawn on you. Phillips Brooks Wisdom
It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf. Walter Lippmann Wisdom
When you're used to being prepared to reject conventional wisdom, it leaves you open to learn more. Mayim Bialik Wisdom
It takes a great man to give sound advice tactfully, but a greater to accept it graciously. Logan Pearsall Smith Wisdom
Intelligence alone does not get us where we need to go or even necessarily where we want to go. For that, the human creature must exercise harder-won capacities of wisdom, and wise action. Krista Tippett Wisdom
There's something peculiar about writing fiction. It requires an interesting balance between seeing the world as a child and having the wisdom of a middle-aged person. The further you get from childhood and the experience of the teenage years, the greater the danger of losing that wellspring. Kazuo Ishiguro Wisdom
I'm grateful for my lines of wisdom. Of course, there are days when I think: 'Oh my gawd, I look a bit tired.' But I can pull it together if I have to. Twiggy Wisdom
Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else. Judy Garland Wisdom
Wisdom alone is true ambition's aim, wisdom is the source of virtue and of fame; obtained with labour, for mankind employed, and then, when most you share it, best enjoyed. Alfred North Whitehead Wisdom
People spend too much time finding other people to blame, too much energy finding excuses for not being what they are capable of being, and not enough energy putting themselves on the line, growing out of the past, and getting on with their lives. J. Michael Straczynski Wisdom
The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living, which are to be desired when dying. Norman Douglas Wisdom
There is no knowledge, no light, no wisdom that you are in possession of, but what you have received it from some source. Brigham Young Wisdom