Now that I am sixty I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency.

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

Purity engenders Wisdom Passion avarice and Ignorance folly infatuation and darkness.

Saudi Arabia is a puritanical state that claims a monopoly of wisdom and virtue.

I always see where I didn't do things the right way. I only see the heavy lifting. That's a bit of my wisdom if you want to call it that.

The left has come to regard common sense - the traditional wisdom and folkways of the community - as an obstacle to progress and enlightenment.

The Divine wisdom has given us prayer not as a means whereby to obtain the good things of earth but as a means whereby we learn to do without them not as a means whereby we escape evil but as a means whereby we become strong to meet it.

Wisdom is knowing when you can't be wise.

I'm not wise but the beginning of wisdom is there it's like relaxing into - and an acceptance of - things.

Sometimes one likes foolish people for their folly better than wise people for their wisdom.