3 December 2020 Torquato Tasso The day of fortune is like a harvest day, We must be busy when the corn is ripe.
3 December 2020 Michel de Montaigne We can be knowledgable with other men’s knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
3 December 2020 Dee Hock It is essential to employ, trust, and reward those whose perspective, ability, and judgment are radically different from yours. It is also rare, for it requires uncommon humility, tolerance, and wisdom.
3 December 2020 Mo Udall Lord, give us the wisdom to utter words that are gentle and tender, for tomorrow we may have to eat them.
3 December 2020 Marc Andreessen Around ’93, ’94, the conventional wisdom about the Internet was that it was a toy for academics and researchers. So it was very, very underestimated for about two years.
3 December 2020 Knut Hamsun However, I must not indulge in homespun wisdom here before so distinguished an assembly, especially as I am to be followed by a representative of science.
3 December 2020 Minna Antrim To know one’s self is wisdom, but not to know one’s neighbors is genius.
3 December 2020 Elizabeth Hardwick Books give not wisdom where none was before. But where some is, there reading makes it more.
3 December 2020 Thomas Paine War involves in its progress such a train of unforeseen circumstances that no human wisdom can calculate the end it has but one thing certain, and that is to increase taxes.
3 December 2020 Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Novels are the Socratic dialogues of our time. Practical wisdom fled from school wisdom into this liberal form.
3 December 2020 Wislawa Szymborska I have sympathy for young people, for their growing pains, but I balk when these growing pains are pushed into the foreground, when you make these young people the only vehicles of life’s wisdom.
3 December 2020 Francois de La Rochefoucauld However glorious an action in itself, it ought not to pass for great if it be not the effect of wisdom and intention.
3 December 2020 Hillary Clinton I learned some valuable lessons about the legislative process, the importance of bipartisan cooperation and the wisdom of taking small steps to get a big job done.
3 December 2020 Jane Smiley If to live is to progress, if you are lucky, from foolishness to wisdom, then to write novels is to broadcast the various stages of your foolishness.
3 December 2020 Charlie Parker Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom. If you don’t live it, it won’t come out of your horn. They teach you there’s a boundary line to music. But, man, there’s no boundary line to art.
3 December 2020 James Prescott Joule 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.
3 December 2020 Benjamin Carson I actually don’t think that I’m that much smarter than anybody else. It’s just that I frequently just seem to know what to do, and I think that’s wisdom.
3 December 2020 Dwight D. Eisenhower The older I get the more wisdom I find in the ancient rule of taking first things first. A process which often reduces the most complex human problem to a manageable proportion.
3 December 2020 Hippolyte Taine I have studied many philosophers and many cats. The wisdom of cats is infinitely superior.
