The most excellent and divine counsel, the best and most profitable advertisement of all others, but the least practiced, is to study and learn how to know ourselves. This is the foundation of wisdom and the highway to whatever is good.

Spending two years on my uncle's ranch in Montana as a young man gave me the wisdom and the thrust to do westerns.

If an idea is indeed sensible, it will eventually become just part of the accepted wisdom.

It's received wisdom that the English are uniquely child-unfriendly.

Silence and reserve will give anyone a reputation for wisdom.