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" Perspective is worth 80 IQ points. "
Alan Kay
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Worth
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" Every indication of wisdom, taken from the effect, is equally an indication of power to execute what wisdom planned. "
Thomas Reid
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Effect
" They are few in the midst of an overwhelming mass of brute force, and their submission is wisdom; but for a nation like England to submit to be robbed by any invader who chooses to visit her shores seemed to me to be nonsense. "
George Combe
Nation
Nonsense
Wisdom
" Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it. "
David Starr Jordan
Virtue
Knowing
Doing
" Global security can be formed or threatened by heads of state whose wisdom, folly and obsessions shape global events. But often it is the security practitioners, those rarely in the headlines but whose craft and energy quietly break new ground, who keep us safe or put us in peril. "
Michael Hayden
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Security
Events
" Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late. "
Felix Frankfurter
Late
Never
Too
" To comprehend the Wisdom of this Injunction the better, and explain the Duty before us, it should be considered, that Government is the only Means by which human Happiness can be attained. "
Charles Inglis
Better
Government
Happiness
" The biggest handicap in research is an ability to think outside the box. The handicap is being encumbered by all the conventional wisdom in a given field. "
Aubrey de Grey
Think
Ability
Box
" Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred to talk. "
Doug Larson
Talk
You
Wisdom
" Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake. "
Napoleon Bonaparte
Your
Never
Wisdom
" Wisdom is a sacred communion. "
Victor Hugo
Communion
Sacred
Wisdom
" We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already. "
Georg C. Lichtenberg
Words
No Words
Stupid
" Knowledge is going to make you stronger. Knowledge is going to let you control your life. Knowledge is going to give you the wisdom to teach their children. Knowledge is the thing that makes you smile in the face of disaster. "
Avery Brooks
Children
Wisdom
Life
" The left has come to regard common sense - the traditional wisdom and folkways of the community - as an obstacle to progress and enlightenment. "
Christopher Lasch
Community
Progress
Wisdom
" To win without risk is to triumph without glory. "
Pierre Corneille
Glory
Triumph
Wisdom
" O, what a tangled web we weave when first we practise to deceive! "
Walter Scott
First
Weave
Web
" To keep your secret is wisdom; to expect others to keep it is folly. "
William Samuel Johnson
Expect
Wisdom
Keep
" To keep your secret is wisdom; but to expect others to keep it is folly. "
Samuel Johnson
Others
Secret
Wisdom
" What happens is not as important as how you react to what happens. "
Ellen Glasgow
Important
React
Wisdom
" The day of fortune is like a harvest day, We must be busy when the corn is ripe. "
Torquato Tasso
Corn
Harvest
Day
" If you were to offer a thirsty man all wisdom, you would not please him more than if you gave him a drink. "
Sophocles
Man
Drink
Him
" The less you talk, the more you're listened to. "
Pauline Phillips
Less
More
Wisdom
" The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing. "
Socrates
True
Know
Nothing
" We developed a technology called artificial swarm intelligence, which is all about tapping the inherent knowledge, wisdom, intuition of groups. "
Louis B. Rosenberg
Knowledge
Wisdom
Technology
" We know there is a deep reservoir of food wisdom out there, or else humans would not have survived to the extent we have. Much of this food wisdom is worth preserving and reviving and heeding. "
Michael Pollan
Food
Out
Know
" Technology is anything that wasn't around when you were born. "
Alan Kay
You
Technology
Born
" Everyone has always underestimated a company headquartered in Salt Lake City, Utah. The New York boys thought they could take me on, that nobody out here has any knowledge or wisdom. "
Jon Huntsman, Sr.
Wisdom
New York
Me
" The way you see people is the way you treat them, and the way you treat them is what they become. "
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
People
Treat
Way
" Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess, and yet all the honesty in the world ain't lawful tender for a loaf of bread. "
Josh Billings
Honesty
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Wisdom
" I think we do need to try to not just rely on the central bank to, in its wisdom, adjust interest rates, but allow for people to avoid being exposed to inflation risk. "
Robert J. Shiller
Need
People
Risk
" It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err. "
Mahatma Gandhi
Wisest
Too
Sure