Don't taunt the alligator until after you've crossed the creek.
~ Dan Rather
Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred to talk.
~ Doug Larson
When you betray somebody else, you also betray yourself.
~ Isaac Bashevis Singer
Whenever you argue with another wiser than yourself in order that others may admire your wisdom, they will discover your ignorance.
~ Saadi
If you were to offer a thirsty man all wisdom, you would not please him more than if you gave him a drink.
~ Sophocles
It doesn't matter how much wisdom you have. If you don't have position, you have nothing. That's the tragedy of India.
~ Rahul Gandhi
I know that inner wisdom is more precious than wealth. The more you spend it, the more you gain.
~ Oprah Winfrey
When you get older, you learn certain life lessons. You apply that wisdom, and suddenly you say, 'Hey, I've got a new lease on this thing. So let's go.'
~ Robert Redford
Combine the extremes, and you will have the true center.
~ Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Look twice before you leap.
~ Charlotte Brontë
Never reach out your hand unless you're willing to extend an arm.
~ Pope Paul Vi
Doubt the conventional wisdom unless you can verify it with reason and experiment.
~ Steve Albini
If you call failures experiments, you can put them in your resume and claim them as achievements.
~ Mason Cooley
Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.
~ Rabindranath Tagore
Wisdom is knowing when you can't be wise.
~ Paul Engle
Age does not bring you wisdom, age brings you wrinkles.
~ Estelle Getty
Knowing that you are going to die is, I suspect, the beginning of wisdom.
~ Terry Pratchett
If I don't have wisdom, I can teach you only ignorance.
~ Leo Buscaglia
Wisdom is the quality that keeps you from getting into situations where you need it.
Above all, you must fight conceit, envy, and every kind of ill-feeling in your heart.
~ Abraham Cahan
Has fortune dealt you some bad cards. Then let wisdom make you a good gamester.
~ Francis Quarles
The wisdom acquired with the passage of time is a useless gift unless you share it.
~ Esther Williams
You need to have extraordinary wisdom to be the forerunner.
~ Ma Huateng
The more you meditate on the laws of Moses, the more striking and brighter does their wisdom appear.
~ John Quincy Adams
A cardinal rule in budgeting and saving is to pay yourself first. Once your paycheck hits your account, wisdom has it that you should move some amount to savings even before you pay the bills.
~ John Rampton
The conventional wisdom is that if you are gay, you cannot play the romantic straight lead in a movie.
~ Ian Mckellen
When you doubt, abstain.
~ Ambrose Bierce
How do you rate works of genius? Partly by personal inclination, partly by accepted wisdom, partly by popularity.
~ Robert Gottlieb
I always want to be a messenger, a person that, you know, that's not afraid to pass on wisdom.
~ Mary J. Blige
Everyone talks about how, in your 30s, all of these growing pains transition into wisdom and you feel more self-assured and confident, but I think I had a bit of a jump-start on that at 27.
~ Solange Knowles
You have to find out what's right for you, so it's trial and error. You are going to be all right if you accept realistic goals for yourself.
~ Teri Garr
You can practice to attain knowledge, but you can't practice to attain wisdom.
~ Herbie Hancock
You should never ask a horse or an actor to do something they cannot do. Wisdom will teach you to find out what they can do and then make it easy for them.
~ Tommy Lee Jones
Some wisdom you must learn from one who's wise.
~ Euripides
You must accept responsibility for your actions, but not the credit for your achievements.
~ Denis Waitley
I always see where I didn't do things the right way. I only see the heavy lifting. That's a bit of my wisdom, if you want to call it that.
~ Vera Wang
If to live is to progress, if you are lucky, from foolishness to wisdom, then to write novels is to broadcast the various stages of your foolishness.
~ Jane Smiley
I listen to the older people who talk to me. I call them my old heads, people with a lot of wisdom. They'll teach you a lot if you listen.
~ Stefon Diggs
It's really important, whether you're a conservative or a liberal, to always challenge the conventional wisdom, which is what I've tried to do in all my work.
~ Nina Easton
When you're used to being prepared to reject conventional wisdom, it leaves you open to learn more.
~ Mayim Bialik
