What a company's been earning doesn't mean anything. What you have to look at is what people think it's going to earn. If you can see something in two years is going to be entirely different than the conventional wisdom, that's how you make money.

In terms of the past, I think we've all learned from the past. I think that's great wisdom.

I do think that the standard media is controlled by the conventional wisdom about global warming. We've come to believe - from reading a lot of articles and talking to a lot of scientists - that there's another side to be heard.

Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents.

I'm no expert. I have no psychic powers, and I sure don't possess any secret wisdom. I'm just Janet. I have strengths, weaknesses, fears, happiness, sadness. I experience joy and I experience pain. I'm highly emotional. I'm very vulnerable.

Knowledge is marvelous, but wisdom is even better.

Please all, and you will please none.

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

Economists often like startling theorems, results which seem to run counter to conventional wisdom.

Let my skin and sinews and bones dry up, together with all the flesh and blood of my body! I welcome it! But I will not move from this spot until I have attained the supreme and final wisdom.

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

Wise sayings often fall on barren ground, but a kind word is never thrown away.

In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don't try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present.

Every speaker has a mouth; An arrangement rather neat. Sometimes it's filled with wisdom. Sometimes it's filled with feet.

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.

More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.

By the time you've reached your sixties, you do know that one day you will die, and knowing that is at least the beginning of wisdom.