Wisdom Quotes

The topic 'Farm Wisdom' is not a gospel doctrine or scriptural topic, although I found considerable scriptural support for the lessons learned on the farm.

John Bytheway

Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess, and yet all the honesty in the world ain't lawful tender for a loaf of bread.

Josh Billings

The wheel that squeaks the loudest is the one that gets the grease.

Josh Billings

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

Josh Brolin

It's received wisdom that the English are uniquely child-unfriendly.

Julie Burchill

The extreme limit of wisdom, that's what the public calls madness.

Jean Cocteau

After a gig I always head back to the hotel, remembering granny's words of wisdom. I cancel the late-night pizza and watch the Jonathan Ross show instead.

Jimmy Carr

Vanity can easily overtake wisdom. It usually overtakes common sense.

Julian Casablancas

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

John Denham

I'm now the elder in the position of doling out wisdom and trying to mend fences.

Jane Fonda

One part of wisdom is knowing what you don't need anymore and letting it go.

Jane Fonda

All free governments are managed by the combined wisdom and folly of the people.

James A. Garfield

If people can't acknowledge the wisdom of indigenous cultures, then that's their loss.

Jay Griffiths

The way you see people is the way you treat them, and the way you treat them is what they become.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know.

John Kenneth Galbraith

The enemy of the conventional wisdom is not ideas but the march of events.

John Kenneth Galbraith

Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.

Judy Garland

It's very hard to know what wisdom is.

James Hillman

He dares to be a fool, and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.

James Huneker

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.

Johan Huizinga

All human wisdom works and has worries and grief as reward.

Johann Georg Hamann