The most important lesson of New Labour is this: Every time we made progress we did it by challenging the conventional wisdom.

Follow the wisdom of the great actor, James Cagney, you hit your mark, you look the other guy in the eye, and you tell the truth.

The perceived wisdom is that people do not go in large numbers to black-and-white movies anymore - which is a great shame, but I'd love to make a black-and-white movie one day.

Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience.

The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.

To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.

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

It is not from reason that justice springs, but goodness is born of wisdom.

Every nation whose affairs betray a want of wisdom and stability may calculate on every loss which can be sustained from the more systematic policy of its wiser neighbors.

Conventional wisdom notwithstanding, there is no reason either in football or in poetry why the two should not meet in a man's life if he has the weight and cares about the words.

The more I work with the body, keeping my assumptions in a temporary state of reservation, the more I appreciate and sympathize with a given disease. The body no longer appears as a sick or irrational demon, but as a process with its own inner logic and wisdom.

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

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

This fear of the Lord is indeed the beginning of wisdom. This consciousness of sin is the straight pathway to heaven.