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" If you want to go east, don't go west. "

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" Never give up, which is the lesson I learned from boxing. As soon as you learn to never give up, you have to learn the power and wisdom of unconditional surrender, and that one doesn't cancel out the other; they just exist as contradictions. The wisdom of it comes as you get older. "

Kris Kristofferson

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

" Conventional wisdom tells us we'll only be happier after a divorce if the marriage itself was a war zone. "

" If I don't have wisdom, I can teach you only ignorance. "

" Patience is the companion of wisdom. "

Saint Augustine

" A great memory is never made synonymous with wisdom, any more than a dictionary would be called a treatise. "

John Henry Newman

" Through love one acquires renunciation and discrimination naturally. "

" Theology in general seems to me a substitution of human ingenuity for divine wisdom. "

Julia Ward Howe

" Preconceived notions are the locks on the door to wisdom. "

" The greater the step forward in knowledge, the greater is the one taken backward in search of wisdom. "

Stephen Gardiner

" My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate. "

Thornton Wilder

" I'm exploring the maturity, the wisdom that just comes from having gone around the sun 50 times. My experience is, 'Oh, I'm never really going to get it right. I'm never going to get it done. But that's not the point here.' The point is the journey. "

Melissa Etheridge

" Contemplation and wisdom are highest achievements and man is not totally at home with them. "

" If I am fool, it is, at least, a doubting one; and I envy no one the certainty of his self-approved wisdom. "

" Unhappy is that Grandeur which makes us too great to be good; and that Wit which sets us at a distance from true Wisdom. "

" We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom. "

Stephen Vincent Benet

" Enraging liberals is simply one of the more enjoyable side effects of my wisdom. "

" The word philosophy sounds high-minded, but it simply means the love of wisdom. If you love something, you don't just read about it; you hug it, you mess with it, you play with it, you argue with it. "

" However glorious an action in itself, it ought not to pass for great if it be not the effect of wisdom and intention. "

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

" Christian, learn from Christ how you ought to love Christ. Learn a love that is tender, wise, strong; love with tenderness, not passion, wisdom, not foolishness, and strength, lest you become weary and turn away from the love of the Lord. "

" Now all the knowledge and wisdom that is in creatures, whether angels or men, is nothing else but a participation of that one eternal, immutable and increased wisdom of God. "

" Logic is the beginning of wisdom, not the end. "

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

Pauline Phillips

" The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil. "

Marcus Tullius Cicero

" The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique. "

" It is plain to me that our prelates, in granting indulgences, do commonly blaspheme the wisdom of God. "

" The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds. "

John F. Kennedy

" If the world were perfect, it wouldn't be. "

" The more you meditate on the laws of Moses, the more striking and brighter does their wisdom appear. "

John Quincy Adams

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