Quotes of: Conventional-wisdom Keyword

What's the difference between depression and South America? If you really had to, you could conquer South America.

The Depressed Guy's Book of Wisdom

It is wisdom to recognize necessity when all other courses have been weighed, though as folly it may appear to those who cling to false hope.

The Fellowship of the Ring

Have you had a 'relationship discussion' with God lately? Do you need to?

The Foolish Sinners Guide to...Living in God's Wisdom

This stuff of a past not worthily lived is also medicine.

The Fruitful Darkness: A Journey Through Buddhist Practice and Tribal Wisdom

And here in this room, I re-experience the memories again and again it is how wisdom comes and how we shape our future.

The Giver

Humanity is ancient And so is its wisdom too… Share in its brilliance in everything that you do!

Hearts for Haiti: Book of Poetry & Inspiration

The eternal world and the mortal world are not parallel, rather they are fused.

Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom

One should cultivate good habits of memory, for it is capable of making existence a Paradise or an Inferno.

The Art of Worldly Wisdom

Memory is not only unruly, leaving us in the lurch when most needed, but stupid as well, putting its nose into places where it is not wanted.

The Art of Worldly Wisdom

Modernity: we created youth without heroism, age without wisdom, and life without grandeur

The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

Wisdom makes decisions today that will still be good tomorrow.

The Best Yes: Making Wise Decisions in the Midst of Endless Demands

Science is always discovering odd scraps of magical wisdom and making a tremendous fuss about its cleverness.

The Confessions of Aleister Crowley: An Autohagiography

Wisdom is the principal thing. The principle to discover the principal thing is "the fear of the Lord". Fear God and be wise.

Creeds for Aspiring Achievers

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.

Debra Winger

Age is a terrible avenger. The lessons of life give you so much to work with, but by the time you've got all this great wisdom, you don't get to be young anymore.

Elizabeth Wurtzel

Children also have artistic ability, and there is wisdom in there having it! The more helpless they are, the more instructive are the examples they furnish us; and they must be preserved free of corruption from an early age.

Paul Klee

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

Our bodies are at once the receiving and transmitting stations for life itself. It is the highest wisdom to recognize this fact and train our bodies to render them sensitive and responsive to nature. art and religion.

Ruth St. Denis

Partly it was a sort of hymn to the wisdom and majesty of Big Brother, but still more it was an act of self-hypnosis, a deliberate drowning of consciousness by means of rhythmic noise.

1984

The idea of authority, which they represented, was associated in our minds with a greater insight and a more humane wisdom.

All Quiet on the Western Front

I confess that I have been as blind as a mole, but is is better to learn wisdom late than never to learn it at all.

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes