Category: wisdom

Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.

I continue to believe, contrary to the given wisdom, that it’s more interesting to have an album – or, indeed, an individual song – which has variety rather than homogeneity.

Who knows for what we live, and struggle, and die? Wise men write many books, in words too hard to understand. But this, the purpose of our lives, the end of all our struggle, is beyond all human wisdom.

Great wisdom is generous petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech cantankerous.

Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own.

Now all the knowledge and wisdom that is in creatures, whether angels or men, is nothing else but a participation of that one eternal, immutable and increased wisdom of God.

Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.

You can’t sweep other people off their feet, if you can’t be swept off your own.

You know how people always talk about how vision is the key to entrepreneurship and perseverance and really seeing what other people don’t see? We can actually redeem a fair amount of that folk wisdom.

I see a wiser person than when I was younger: having babies, and passing 30, were the turning points. What women in their 40s – I am 39 – lack in gorgeousness, they make up for in wisdom. I love ageing, despite the drawbacks – thinner, drier skin.