Silence and reserve will give anyone a reputation for wisdom.

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

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

Spending two years on my uncle's ranch in Montana as a young man gave me the wisdom and the thrust to do westerns.

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.

If you have a vaccine or an antidote that people can benefit from you're not going to want to keep it to yourself. You're going to want to spread that wisdom or whatever to as many people as you can so everybody can benefit from it.

Focus on the mind and the soul. Read. Study. Enrol in a course of lectures. Pray. Become a member of a religious congregation. Study the Bible or other ancient works of wisdom.

It has become part of the accepted wisdom to say that the twentieth century was the century of physics and the twenty-first century will be the century of biology.

I acknowledge the privilege of being alive in a human body at this moment endowed with senses memories emotions thoughts and the space of mind in its wisdom aspect.

Now our founding fathers had the wisdom to know that social acceptance and popularity were fleeing and that this country's principles needed to be rooted in strengths greater than the passions and the emotions of the times.