723 quotes found
“With age comes common sense and wisdom.”
“The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.”
“Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.”
“This age thinks better of a gilded fool Than of a threadbare saint in wisdom's school.”
“I feel increasingly like age is very irrelevant. Quite often, cynicism is confused with wisdom, and my scorn is confused with a knowing, which I don't have.”
“There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.”
“Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.”
“I'm no expert. I have no psychic powers, and I sure don't possess any secret wisdom. I'm just Janet. I have strengths, weaknesses, fears, happiness, sadness. I experience joy and I experience pain....”
“Most people in the Western world grow up with the received wisdom that Mozart was a genius. But few people necessarily know why. More than anyone else, he captured this something which is the human...”
“Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way.”
“The philosophical point is that our happiness and wellbeing is not based on incomes rising. This is not just the wisdom of sages but of ordinary people. Prosperity is more social and psychological:...”
“Keep well that is the half of wisdom and of happiness.”
“Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.”
“It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it.”
“If you have the guts to keep making mistakes, your wisdom and intelligence leap forward with huge momentum.”
“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, ...”
“There is no greater privilege in living than bringing a tiny new human being into the world and then trying to raise him or her properly during the next eighteen years. Doing that job right require...”
“We developed a technology called artificial swarm intelligence, which is all about tapping the inherent knowledge, wisdom, intuition of groups.”
“Intelligence alone does not get us where we need to go or even necessarily where we want to go. For that, the human creature must exercise harder-won capacities of wisdom, and wise action.”
“Only a well-rounded intellect, a spirit nourished in the eternal sources of intelligence and culture, of justice and wisdom, is a safeguard against both indifference and skepticism.”
