Quotes About Wisdom

If I could have anyone on speed dial it would be George Clooney. He seems like a cool guy who would give good advice.

So many people say that obviously my game has changed since I arrived here and I say that it's good that it changed, otherwise it would show a lack of intelligence.

I wasn't a very good student. I prefer to learn by experience.

The blowback against a bailout of Lehman would have been fierce. It is often forgotten, but the prevailing wisdom the day after Lehman fell was that its collapse was a good thing.

It is the property of a great and good mind to covet, not the fruit of good deeds, but good deeds themselves, and to seek for a good man even after having met with bad men.

Simply by performing good actions and thinking good thoughts you will not attain enlightenment. It takes something more.

Who letts his wife goe to every feast, and his horse drinke at every water, shall neither have good wife nor good horse.

Good sense and good nature are never separated; and good nature is the product of right reason.

Good health is often a matter of good judgement.

Poetry is certainly something more than good sense, but it must be good sense, at all events, just as a palace is more than a house, but it must be a house, at least.

Banking is very good business if you don't do anything dumb.

If you want to be changed, read a good book.

A good lawyer knows how to shut up when he's won his case.

A good book is fruitful of other books; it perpetuates its fame from age to age, and makes eras in the lives of its readers.

People like to say, "You're only as old as you feel," but it isn't true. It's just something old people say to make themselves feel good about their age. You're as old as you are.

All reading is good reading. And all reading of Jane Austen and Charles Dickens is sublime reading.

Responding to the question "If Mr. Stalin dies, what will be the effect on international affairs?" That is a good question for you to ask, not a wise question for me to answer.

Very good laws may be ill timed.

Would thou confound thy enemy, be good thyself.

Great good nature without prudence is a great misfortune.

A good word costs as little as a bad one, and is worth more.

What rapture, oh, it is to know A good thing when you see it And having seen a good thing, oh, What rapture 'tis to flee it.

It is a good thing to let someone else's vision take over, and it has always been a good thing in the end.

One is sometimes glad not to be a great theologian; one might easily mistake it for being a good Christian.