Wisdom Quotes

The truest wisdom is a resolute determination.

Napoleon Bonaparte

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

Nick Clooney

Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences.

Norman Cousins

What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes?

Norman Douglas

The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living, which are to be desired when dying.

Norman Douglas

If an idea is indeed sensible, it will eventually become just part of the accepted wisdom.

Nigel Farage

If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.

Nelson Mandela

Whatever position I occupied, it was the result of colleagues - of my comrades in the movement - who had decided in their wisdom to use me for the purpose of focusing the attention of the country and the international community on me.

Nelson Mandela

What is important to me is that when I write something, people listen to me. I provide my wisdom to people, whether they agree or not.

Nouriel Roubini

Set your course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.

Omar N. Bradley

Meditation is the soul's perspective glass.

Owen Feltham

The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity.

Og Mandino

It is like the seed put in the soil - the more one sows, the greater the harvest.

Orison Swett Marden

He read his mind. He's a strange sort of man, isn't he? It's not just the advice and the wisdom that he has.

Omar Sharif

Turn your wounds into wisdom.

Oprah Winfrey

Follow your instincts. That's where true wisdom manifests itself.

Oprah Winfrey

All wisdom does not reside in Delhi.

P. Chidambaram

At 17 years old, STG took me under its wing and shared its resources and wisdom with me, even allowing me to take part in a show at the Edinburgh Festival. Without STG and the Ramshorn Theatre, I would not have found access to the world of drama that...

Peter Capaldi

Wisdom is knowing when you can't be wise.

Paul Engle

Consensus wisdom has it that all modern commercial fantasy novels fall into two camps: those derived from J.R.R. Tolkien and those derived from Mervyn Peake. The 'Lord of the Rings' template or the 'Gormenghast' mold.

Paul Di Filippo