Quotes of: Conventional-wisdom Keyword

When we are attuned to our inner voice, life becomes art and art becomes life.

Divine Attunement: Music as a Path to Wisdom

No, that is the great fallacy: the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful.

A Farewell to Arms

We work for peace every time we exercise authority with wisdom and authentic love.

Finding Peace

... she was a pudding of immaturity and precocious wisdom that had not yet set into a stable mold.

The French Art of Revenge

Wisdom... is often an abstraction associated not with fact or reality but with the man who asserts it and the manner of its assertion.

The Great Crash of 1929

Decision-making is a skill. Wisdom is a leadership trait.

The Heart of Leadership: Becoming a Leader People Want to Follow

It is beyond any man's wisdom to judge the secret heart of another... for in it are good and evil mixed.

The High King

The most and best of us depend on others; we have to live either among friends or among enemies.

The Art of Worldly Wisdom

Prejudice begets prejudice, you see. Knowledge does not always evolve into wisdom.

Akata Witch

When time is reduced to linear progress, it is emptied of presence.

Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom

Cunning grows in deceit at seeing itself discovered, and tries to deceive with truth itself.

The Art of Worldly Wisdom

Small moments we find so pointless can become cherished memories with time and the perspective that wisdom brings.

Broken Faith

For the senses wander, and when one lets the mind follow them, it carries wisdom away like a windblown ship on the waters.

The Bhagavad Gita

Knowledge unlocks the door to the mysteries of our mistakes; wisdom guides us away from repeating them". HS/el

Back to Single

The novelist teaches the reader to comprehend the world as a question. There is wisdom and tolerance in that attitude. In a world built on sacrosanct certainties the novel is dead.

Milan Kundera

Those who improve with age embrace the power of personal growth and personal achievement and begin to replace youth with wisdom, innocence with understanding, and lack of purpose with self-actualization.

Bo Bennett

What the tech industry often forgets is that with age comes wisdom. Older workers are usually better at following direction, mentoring, and leading.

Vivek Wadhwa

I'm very accepting with my age. It's like notches on your belt: experience, wisdom, and a different kind of beauty. There comes a day when you've become comfortable in your skin.

Zoe Saldana

Writing is no dying art form in America because most published writers here accept the wisdom and the necessity of encouraging the talent that follows in their footsteps.

Elizabeth George

To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.

Herman Melville

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.

Sheryl Crow