wisdom Quotes

Old age is not the end of a book, but an opportunity to rewrite it with accumulated experience and wisdom.

Bitcoin is a swarm of cyber hornets serving the goddess of wisdom, feeding on the fire of truth, exponentially growing ever smarter, faster, and stronger behind a wall of encrypted energy.

Modern wisdom: when every conversation feels like a workday, doing nothing becomes a celebrated form of genius.

Old wisdom is a mind that has fallen out of use.

There are many smart thoughts in books, but no less stupid ones. Do not get carried away by bookish wisdom.

Smart people in the East sought and found practical wisdom in the West. Western fools continue to seek spirituality in the East.

Old age does not add intelligence, but less of it is needed. Unclaimed intelligence is called wisdom.

Technology is a powerful tool, but it’s our wisdom in wielding it that will determine if it’s our greatest gift or our greatest risk.

The more stupid the authorities, the less they doubt their own wisdom.

Question everything except the wisdom of the current leadership.

Russian folk wisdom: \"There is no consensus without a quorum.\"

Attempts to prove one\'s wisdom often end in a demonstration of stupidity.

We all grow up. Hopefully, we get wiser. Age brings wisdom, and fatherhood changes one\'s life completely.

Some people\', Miss R. said,\'run to conceits or wisdom but I hold to the hard, brown, nutlike word. I might point out that there is enough aesthetic excitement here to satisfy anyone but a damned fool.

Keep well; that is the half of wisdom and of happiness.

Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two. A constant coming and going: wisdom lies in the momentary.

Ignore the conventional wisdom. If everybody else is doing it one way, there's a good chance you can find your niche by going in exactly the opposite direction.

Swim upstream. Go the other way. Ignore the conventional wisdom. If everybody else is doing it one way, there\'s a good chance you can find your niche by going in exactly the opposite direction. But be prepared for a lot of folks to wave you down and tell you you\'re headed the wrong way. I guess in all my years, what I heard more often than anything was: a town of less than 50,000 population cannot support a discount store for very long.

In childhood our credulity serves us well. It helps us to pack, with extraordinary rapidity, our skulls full of the wisdom of our parents and our ancestors. But if we don\'t grow out of it in the fullness of time, our ... nature makes us a sitting target for astrologers, mediums, gurus, evangelists, and quacks. We need to replace the automatic credulity of childhood with the constructive skepticism of adult science.

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.

I know conventional wisdom has always been to go to Europe, and I did that early on, and I tried it, but I realised pretty quickly if I wasn\'t playing, nothing else mattered - I wasn\'t going to be happy.

It makes me so mad that some people underestimate the wisdom and energy of young people. All because they don\'t look the way older folks think they should look. I\'m working on a song about it. Maybe some of those closed minded people will realize long hair and tattoos don\'t mean they should be ignored. Close minded people are part of what\'s wrong with this world.

When I was 28, my wisdom teeth were coming through and I had all four out under general anaesthetic. I remember friends who\'d had terrible experiences, but my teeth were removed at 8am and I ate steak and chips for lunch that day.

Remember, the conventional wisdom is, \"Yeah, you can do this like [Donald] Trump has done it during the primaries, buuuut once you get to the general, it\'s not about national votes. It\'s about states! It\'s about swing states. It\'s about battleground states. And you\'ve gotta have targeted expenditures, great ads running against your opponent in those swing states.\"

I think Senator [Ted] Cruz\'s strategy is that there\'s 4.5 million, 5 million Republicans that didn\'t vote in 2012. This is the conventional wisdom and they didn\'t vote because they didn\'t like the nominee, wasn\'t conservative enough, or there was a religious component. Who knows what?

Sometimes God gives instructions that go against conventional wisdom, such as treating people kindly when they\'re hateful. Who really wants to do that? Instructions like that may not always make sense, so that\'s why I need to trust and obey the One who inspired them.

I am not going to respect... gray hairs unless there is wisdom beneath them.

Will the future bring your wisdom to me? Or will darkness rule the kingdom for all eternity? You will live in my heart... I will still remember even though we are apart. I will feel you there for me As I walk the road of life You help me fight for what is right I will honour thy name

This is the philosophy of YAGNI: 'You aren't going to need it.' There is wisdom in this message, since over-engineering is often much worse than under-engineering. On the other hand, when you discover that you truly do need an architectural boundary where none exists, the costs and risks can be very high to add such a boundary.

The first problem for all of us, men and woman, is not to learn, but to unlearn. We are filled with the popular wisdom of several centuries just past, and we are terrified to give it up. Patriotism means obedience, age means wisdom, woman means submission, black means inferior: these are preconceptions imbedded so deeply in our thinking that we honestly may not know that they are there.