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Wisdom Quotes
On wisdom gained through age and patience.
One quote here frames aging itself as a kind of accumulation - experience and wisdom worn like notches, alongside real comfort in one's own skin. Related reading: Experience.
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- Quality
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- Nov 07, 2020
Central banks don't have divine wisdom. They try to do the best analysis they can and must be prepared to stand or fall by the quality of that analysis.
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
As far as feeling freedom in my career now versus five years ago... I think if I feel any more free it's simply because of the experiences that I've had, and the wisdom I've accumulated from that time.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Preconceived notions are the locks on the door to wisdom.
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Although it has been said by men of more wit than wisdom, and perhaps more malice than either, that women are naturally incapable of acting prudently, or that they are necessarily determined to folly, I must by no means grant it.
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The Relation we bear to the Wisdom of the Father, the Son of His Love, gives us indeed a dignity which otherwise we have no pretence to. It makes us something, something considerable even in God's Eyes.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Unhappy is that Grandeur which makes us too great to be good; and that Wit which sets us at a distance from true Wisdom.
- Innovation
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By definition, the Singularity means that machines would be smarter than us, and, in their wisdom, they can innovate new technologies. The innovations would come so quickly, and increasingly quickly, that the innovation would make Moore's Law seem as antiquated as Hammurabi's Code.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Science investigates; religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power; religion gives man wisdom which is control.
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That old law about 'an eye for an eye' leaves everybody blind. The time is always right to do the right thing.
- Knowledge
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Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.
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Our ascendancy of the past two centuries - first Europe and then the U.S. - has bred a western-centric mentality: the West is the fount of all wisdom. We think of ourselves as open-minded, but our sense of superiority has closed our minds. We never entertained the idea that China could surpass the U.S.
- Memory
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- Nov 07, 2020
Memory is not wisdom; idiots can by rote repeat volumes. Yet what is wisdom without memory?
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
As with many other folk beliefs, 'feng-shui' undoubtedly incorporates some scientifically correct observation or received wisdom based on direct experience of natural phenomena; but it needs to be dealt with skeptically as a credible system of thought. Some feng-shui prescriptions can certainly lead to desirable results.
- Closest Thing
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- Nov 07, 2020
The closest thing I have to a manager is my parents, for all their words of wisdom and business experience.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is a particular set of values commonly associated with being professional. Experience, expertise, trustworthiness, wisdom, and good judgement are all attributes aspired to by senior professional people, be they doctors, engineers, lawyers, civil servants, or the clergy.
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