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" Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity. "

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

" The problem lies with us: we've become addicted to experts. We've become addicted to their certainty, their assuredness, their definitiveness, and in the process, we have ceded our responsibility, substituting our intellect and our intelligence for their supposed words of wisdom. "

" All wisdom does not reside in Delhi. "

" Our ascendancy of the past two centuries - first Europe and then the U.S. - has bred a western-centric mentality: the West is the fount of all wisdom. We think of ourselves as open-minded, but our sense of superiority has closed our minds. We never entertained the idea that China could surpass the U.S. "

" Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough. "

" I don't think I really have any wisdom. Stay out of trouble. Good luck. Stay away from women because they will burn you, haha. "

" Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. "

Alfred Lord Tennyson

" Wisdom is nothing but a preparation of the soul, a capacity, a secret art of thinking, feeling and breathing thoughts of unity at every moment of life. "

" For the Holy Ghost blesses us with optimism and wisdom at times of challenge that we simply cannot muster on our own. "

" I prefer the folly of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom. "

" For myself, I think that those who cultivate wisdom and believe themselves able to instruct their fellow-citizens as to their interests are least likely to become partisans of violence. They are too well aware that to violence attach enmities and dangers, whereas results as good may be obtained by persuasion safely and amicably. "

" Wisdom is found only in truth. "

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

" Every journey that is successful has culs-de-sac and speed bumps. I carry a wisdom gene through my life through the good, the bad, and the ugly. "

" A mouse does not rely on just one hole. "

" It is always our own self that we find at the end of the journey. The sooner we face that self, the better. "

" It is not who is right, but what is right, that is of importance. "

" The less you talk, the more you're listened to. "

Pauline Phillips

" If we have built on the fragile cornerstones of human wisdom, pride, and conditional love, things may look good for a while, but a weak foundation causes collapse when storms hit. "

Charles Stanley

" To know one's self is wisdom, but not to know one's neighbors is genius. "

" I haven't any wisdom - just a child like everybody else. I'm not as great as Frank Lloyd Wright. "

" We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us. "

" 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. "

" Everyone has always underestimated a company headquartered in Salt Lake City, Utah. The New York boys thought they could take me on, that nobody out here has any knowledge or wisdom. "

Jon Huntsman, Sr.

" We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already. "

Georg C. Lichtenberg

" Swim upstream. Go the other way. Ignore the conventional wisdom. "

" Instead of looking at life as a narrowing funnel, we can see it ever widening to choose the things we want to do, to take the wisdom we've learned and create something. "

" It used to be, it is accepted scientific wisdom the Earth is flat, and this heretic named Galileo was branded a denier. "

" Wisdom and understanding can only become the possession of individual men by travelling the old road of observation, attention, perseverance, and industry. "

" I think in conventional magazine wisdom, you need to have a redesign every decade or so. "

" If you believe the doctors, nothing is wholesome; if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent; if you believe the military, nothing is safe. "