Wisdom Quotes
- Page 19He who is taught to live upon little owes more to his father's wisdom than he who has a great deal left him does to his father's care.
William Penn
The wisdom of crowds works when the crowd is choosing the price of an ox, when there's a single numeric average. But if it's a design or something that matters, the decision is made by committee, and that's crap. You want people and groups who are able to think thoughts before they share.
Jaron Lanier
The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.
Jean Paul
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
George S. Patton
A great memory is never made synonymous with wisdom, any more than a dictionary would be called a treatise.
John Henry Newman
To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.
Plutarch
He was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the rich.
Evelyn Waugh
It may almost be a question whether such wisdom as many of us have in our mature years has not come from the dying out of the power of temptation, rather than as the results of thought and resolution.
Anthony Trollope
We must expect reverses, even defeats. They are sent to teach us wisdom and prudence, to call forth greater energies, and to prevent our falling into greater disasters.
Robert E. Lee
This is perhaps the most profound meaning of the book of Job, the best example of wisdom.
Paul Ricoeur
Yale is a crucible in American life for the accommodation of intellectual achievement, of wisdom, of refinement, with the democratic ideals of openness, of social justice and of equal opportunity.
Benno C. Schmidt, Jr.
Wisdom I know is social. She seeks her fellows. But Beauty is jealous, and illy bears the presence of a rival.
Thomas Jefferson
As an instrument for practical action, law is responsive to the wisdom of its time, which may be wrong, but it carries forward, sometimes in opposition to this wisdom or passion, a memory of received values.
Edward Levi
Theology in general seems to me a substitution of human ingenuity for divine wisdom.
Julia Ward Howe