Famous Quotes: Wisdom

The thing that we possess, that machines don't, is the ability to exhibit wisdom.
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You want people walking away from the conversation with some kernel of wisdom or some kind of impact.
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Authority without wisdom is like a heavy ax without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish.
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He 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.
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Doubt is the vestibule through which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom.
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I've always shied away from conventional wisdom, though I know the power of it.
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Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.
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My aim, then, was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us. Fear is the beginning of wisdom.
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Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone.
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It is not wisdom but Authority that makes a law.
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It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important.
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Even by common wisdom, there seem to be both people and objects in my dream that are outside myself, but clearly they were created in myself and are part of me, they are mental constructs in my own brain.
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We live in a culture that doesn't acknowledge or validate human intuition and doesn't encourage us to rely on our intuitive wisdom.
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Man's wisdom is his best friend; folly his worst enemy.
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Nobility of spirit has more to do with simplicity than ostentation, wisdom rather than wealth, commitment rather than ambition.
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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.
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In particular, for younger researchers on whom the future of mankind may depend. We believe that they are working with all the scientific wisdom at their disposal for the preservation of the inheritance of the earth and for the lasting survival of mankind.
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Clinton is a big personality who has led a big life, and for some of the media conventional wisdom to boil it down to a view that 'all people are really interested in' are a few moments of madness in the Oval Office gets him, the importance of the presidency, and the significance of his life, all wrong.
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The truest greatness lies in being kind, the truest wisdom in a happy mind.
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Words of wisdom are spoken by children at least as often as scientists.
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