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" The problem lies with us: we've become addicted to experts. We've become addicted to their certainty, their assuredness, their definitiveness, and in the process, we have ceded our responsibility, substituting our intellect and our intelligence for their supposed words of wisdom. "

Noreena Hertz

Intelligence

Wisdom

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" The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom. "

" Stress makes us prone to tunnel vision, less likely to take in the information we need. Anxiety makes us more risk-averse than we would be regularly and more deferential. "

Noreena Hertz

Information

Stress

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

Khalil Gibran

Turn

Road

" There should be a point to movies. Sure, you're giving people a diversion from the cold world for a bit, but at the same time, you pass on some facts and rules and maybe a little bit of wisdom. "

" What if Barack Obama established a Presidential Advisory Committee that would meet once every couple of months, bringing together the former presidents for a conference in order to seek their collective wisdom? There is a wealth of experience in former presidents that generally goes untapped. "

" The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds. "

John F. Kennedy

Our

Ignorance

" The philosophy of life is this: Life is not a struggle, not a tension... Life is bliss. It is eternal wisdom, eternal existence. "

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

Wisdom

Life

Struggle

" Once you label me you negate me. "

" I reject most conventional wisdom. "

" Habit is the nursery of errors. "

" O, what a tangled web we weave when first we practise to deceive! "

" Hurricane Katrina overwhelmed levees and exploded the conventional wisdom about a shared American prosperity, exposing a group of people so poor they didn't have $50 for a bus ticket out of town. If we want to learn something from this disaster, the lesson ought to be: America's poor deserve better than this. "

" Combine the extremes, and you will have the true center. "

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Will

True

Combine

" The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages is preserved into perpetuity by a nation's proverbs, fables, folk sayings and quotations. "

" Who in their infinite wisdom decreed that Little League uniforms be white? Certainly not a mother. "

" I covered my face because they had taken my wisdom teeth out. "

" If you want to be found stand where the seeker seeks. "

" It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see. "

" My parents decided - because they were not going to teach us anything Jewish at home - to send both me and my sister to a Jewish primary school. So I went to Kerem Primary School in Hampstead Garden Suburb. But, for me, that school really didn't work that well. "

Noreena Hertz

Parents

Sister

" Our bodies are at once the receiving and transmitting stations for life itself. It is the highest wisdom to recognize this fact and train our bodies to render them sensitive and responsive to nature. art and religion. "

" Swim upstream. Go the other way. Ignore the conventional wisdom. "

Sam Walton

Other

Ignore

" Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe. "

" Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours. "

" It is good even for old men to learn wisdom. "

" The hours of folly are measured by the clock; but of wisdom, no clock can measure. "

" The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while. "

" It's actually very surprising how little we think about the quality of our decision-making and how we could improve it. How absent decision-making classes are from educational curricula. How little we think about how it is we think. "

" Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another. "

" Man's wisdom is his best friend; folly his worst enemy. "

" I am deeply impressed with the gravity and wisdom with which most federal judges approach the responsibility of sentencing. It is a difficult, soul-searching task at best. "