However glorious an action in itself, it ought not to pass for great if it be not the effect of wisdom and intention.

Never say never, but the thought of electively cutting oneself is beyond my grasp, and I also object to it politically. Denying the lines on our faces makes a comment about age and wisdom I don't care to make.

I see a wiser person than when I was younger: having babies, and passing 30, were the turning points. What women in their 40s - I am 39 - lack in gorgeousness, they make up for in wisdom. I love ageing, despite the drawbacks - thinner, drier skin.

Now it is time to turn to an older wisdom that, while respecting material comfort and security as a basic right of all, also recognises that many of the most valuable things in life cannot be measured.

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.

No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool. Writers, alas, have to be fools in public, while the rest of the human race can cover its tracks.

At sixty, I know little more about wisdom than I did at thirty, but I know a great deal more about folly.

Doubt is the vestibule through which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom.

Pessimism is only the name that men of weak nerves give to wisdom.

Mainstream media tend to just mouth the conventional wisdom, to see everything through the filter of right and left.

For the subtlest folly proceeds from the subtlest wisdom.

The left has come to regard common sense - the traditional wisdom and folkways of the community - as an obstacle to progress and enlightenment.

I covered my face because they had taken my wisdom teeth out.

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.

Lord, bless me with the ability to achieve all that I can, and the wisdom to realize it doesn't all have to be by tomorrow!

One of the most beautiful passages of Rousseau is that in the sixth book of Confessions, where he describes the awakening in him of the literary sense. Of such wisdom, the poetic passion, the desire of beauty, the love of art for its own sake, has most.

This fear of the Lord is indeed the beginning of wisdom. This consciousness of sin is the straight pathway to heaven.

Wisdom finds its literary expression in wisdom literature.

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

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

Novels are the Socratic dialogues of our time. Practical wisdom fled from school wisdom into this liberal form.

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.

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

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.