Danh ngôn thuộc danh mục: wisdom

Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking.

Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures.

Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge.

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.

The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.

When you betray somebody else, you also betray yourself.

The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation.

The more tranquil a man becomes, the greater is his success, his influence, his power for good. Calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom.

All free governments are managed by the combined wisdom and folly of the people.

To avoid entangling alliances has been a maxim of our policy ever since the days of Washington, and its wisdom no one will attempt to dispute.

Saudi Arabia is a puritanical state that claims a monopoly of wisdom and virtue.

Information is not knowledge, and knowledge is not wisdom. Reading - even browsing - an old book can yield sustenance denied by a database search. Patience is a virtue, gluttony a sin.

It's very hard to know what wisdom is.

He dares to be a fool, and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.

Every nation whose affairs betray a want of wisdom and stability may calculate on every loss which can be sustained from the more systematic policy of its wiser neighbors.

We never understand how little we need in this world until we know the loss of it.

Words of wisdom are spoken by children at least as often as scientists.

After the knowledge of, and obedience to, the will of God, the next aim must be to know something of His attributes of wisdom, power, and goodness as evidenced by His handiwork.

As you mature and gain a semblance of wisdom and a sense of what life is all about... this is by no means true of everyone, but a lot of actors like to escape themselves. Inhabiting another person's persona is often a good way of escaping yourself.

Women are stronger than men - they do not die of wisdom.

In complete darkness we are all the same, it is only our knowledge and wisdom that separates us, don't let your eyes deceive you.

In complete darkness, it is only knowledge and wisdom that separates us.

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. I'm highly emotional. I'm very vulnerable.

As I visited the various neighborhoods in the campaign, I learned fast that it's a mistake to think that all of the wisdom and possible solutions to our problems are available only in this building.

One part of wisdom is knowing what you don't need anymore and letting it go.

Dr. Johnson has said that the chief glory of a country arises from its authors. But then that is only as they are oracles of wisdom; unless they teach virtue, they are more worthy of a halter than of the laurel.

The opportunity for brotherhood presents itself every time you meet a human being.

The wisdom of crowds works when the crowd is choosing the price of an ox, when there's a single numeric average. But if it's a design or something that matters, the decision is made by committee, and that's crap. You want people and groups who are able to think thoughts before they share.

While people are quick to praise the wisdom of the crowd, being an old-school journalist, I look at the wisdom of the crowd and know it can quickly turn into a mob mentality.

The wisdom of the crowds has peaked. Web 3.0 is taking what we've built in Web 2.0 - the wisdom of the crowds - and putting an editorial layer on it of truly talented, compensated people to make the product more trusted and refined.

If people can't acknowledge the wisdom of indigenous cultures, then that's their loss.

Cultures have long heard wisdom in non-human voices: Apollo, god of music, medicine and knowledge, came to Delphi in the form of a dolphin. But dolphins, which fill the oceans with blipping and chirping, and whales, which mew and caw in ultramarine jazz - a true rhapsody in blue - are hunted to the edge of silence.

My government, you can be assured, will be less focused on personalities. It is about treating people with respect. I think complaining about the community not being able to see the wisdom of our ideas is the wrong approach.

What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?

Commitment is an act, not a word.

The extreme limit of wisdom, that's what the public calls madness.

Beware, so long as you live, of judging men by their outward appearance.

Education makes us more stupid than the brutes. A thousand voices call to us on every hand, but our ears are stopped with wisdom.

The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.

Strong characters are brought out by change of situation, and gentle ones by permanence.

Peace is a fragile thing. It takes courage to secure it. It takes wisdom to maintain it.

Knowledge is the consequence of time, and multitude of days are fittest to teach wisdom.

I have tried at every point to seek God's wisdom on the decisions I made, and I made it my business to speak up on behalf of the things God tells us are important to Him.

Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.

After a gig I always head back to the hotel, remembering granny's words of wisdom. I cancel the late-night pizza and watch the Jonathan Ross show instead.

Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. People have the right to expect that these wants will be provided for by this wisdom.

It is better to risk starving to death then surrender. If you give up on your dreams, what's left?

He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose.