Wisdom Quotes That Will Change Your Perspective - page 128

Wisdom - meaning judgment acting on experience, common sense, available knowledge, and a decent appreciation of probability.

Wisdom - meaning judgment acting on experience, common sense, available knowledge, and a decent appreciation of probability.

Barbara Tuchman

Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences.

Norman Cousins

There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart.

Charles Dickens

Perhaps I really regard myself as an intelligent man only because throughout my entire life I've never been able to start or finish anything.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

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If I have the courage to acknowledge my limits and embrace them, I can experience enormous freedom. If I lack this courage, I will be imprisoned by them.

John Ortberg

Know or listen to those who know.

Baltasar Gracian

You have to talk about the issue of race, but I can talk to white constituents about racism, if I at least acknowledge that life is not a crystal stair for them either.

Keith Ellison

I find it disturbing that no member of the Senate Armed Services Committee is willing to acknowledge that record of failure and to ask our next secretary of defense what he proposes to do to amend that sorry record.

James Mattis

Euripides was wont to say, silence was an answer to a wise man; but we seem to have greater occasion for it in our dealing with fools and unreasonable persons; for men of breeding and sense will be satisfied with reason and fair words.

Liberalism regards all absolutes with profound skepticism, including both moral imperatives and final solutions... Insistence upon any particular solution is the mark of an ideologue.

Liberalism regards all absolutes with profound skepticism, including both moral imperatives and final solutions... Insistence upon any particular solution is the mark of an ideologue.

Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

It is only the enlightened ruler and the wise general who will use the highest intelligence of the army for the purposes of spying, and thereby they achieve great results.

Without the concepts, methods and results found and developed by previous generations right down to Greek antiquity one cannot understand either the aims or achievements of mathematics in the last 50 years. [Said in 1950]

Hermann Weyl

Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.

Friedrich Nietzsche

It is the mark of a truly intelligent person to be moved by statistics.

George Bernard Shaw

When I'm working, I'm very purposeful and everything else gets out of focus. Something I've had to work on together with my wife is how to acknowledge each other in the midst of this and keep the relationship going.

Jeff Bridges

To be over much facetious is the accomplishment of courtiers and blemish of the wise.

Saadi

For the great majority of mankind are satisfied with appearances, as though they were realities, and are often more influenced by the things that seem than by those that are.

Niccolò Machiavelli

What we think, we become.

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I don\'t want you to apologize for being rich; I want you to acknowledge that in America, we all should have to pay our fair share.

I don't want you to apologize for being rich; I want you to acknowledge that in America, we all should have to pay our fair share.

The better we are at accepting the limits of our world, the more easily we can embrace what we have.

Steven Amsterdam