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" Some coaches pray for wisdom. I pray for 260-pound tackles. They'll give me plenty of wisdom. "

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" 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. "

Frederick William Robertson

" A proverb is the wisdom of many and the wit of one. "

Lord John Russell

" It is wisdom in prosperity, when all is as thou wouldn't have it, to fear and suspect the worst. "

Desiderius Erasmus

" The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it. "

" A day of worry is more exhausting than a week of work. "

" I reject most conventional wisdom. "

Conventional 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 future has already arrived. It's just not evenly distributed yet. "

" It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf. "

Walter Lippmann

" Quick decisions are unsafe decisions. "

" Appearances are often deceiving. "

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

" There is no knowledge, no light, no wisdom that you are in possession of, but what you have received it from some source. "

" Influential people are never satisfied with the status quo. They're the ones who constantly ask, 'What if?' and 'Why not?' They're not afraid to challenge conventional wisdom, and they don't disrupt things for the sake of being disruptive; they do it to make things better. "

Travis Bradberry

" Wisdom may best arise from a humbling reality. "

" Now it is time to turn to an older wisdom that, while respecting material comfort and security as a basic right of all, also recognises that many of the most valuable things in life cannot be measured. "

Michael D. Higgins

" He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose. "

" It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see. "

Henry David Thoreau

" Your law may be perfect, your knowledge of human affairs may be such as to enable you to apply it with wisdom and skill, and yet without individual acquaintance with men, their haunts and habits, the pursuit of the profession becomes difficult, slow, and expensive. "

" We know there is a deep reservoir of food wisdom out there, or else humans would not have survived to the extent we have. Much of this food wisdom is worth preserving and reviving and heeding. "

" It's not the having, it's the getting. "

Elizabeth Taylor

" In the frank expression of conflicting opinions lies the greatest promise of wisdom in governmental action. "

Louis D. Brandeis

" You must learn day by day, year by year to broaden your horizon. The more things you love, the more you are interested in, the more you enjoy, the more you are indignant about, the more you have left when anything happens. "

Ethel Barrymore

" It isn't right to judge strength as better than good wisdom. "

" Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence and deem them like the Ark of the Covenant, too sacred to be touched. They ascribe to men of the preceding age a wisdom more than human and suppose what they did to be beyond amendment. "

" In life, all good things come hard, but wisdom is the hardest to come by. "

" Every silver lining has a cloud. "

" In 1969, we decided we had to do certain things technically to win, and we decided to do them then, even though we knew some of the personnel couldn't do it. In other words, instead of adapting the system to the players, we just installed our system. Then we set out to fill our team through the draft. "

" Big money is not a good thing for a little soul: it will only ensnare his feet, and he will fall to his ruin. Wealth is safe only for those who have a wealth of wisdom. "

" It is the neglect of timely repair that makes rebuilding necessary. "

Richard Whately