3 December 2020 George S. Patton Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
3 December 2020 Gerald Brenan Wisdom is keeping a sense of fallibility of all our views and opinions.
3 December 2020 Zhuang Zi Great wisdom is generous petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech cantankerous.
3 December 2020 William Dean Howells Wisdom and goodness are twin-born, one heart must hold both sisters, never seen apart.
3 December 2020 Ralph Waldo Emerson The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.
3 December 2020 Louis D. Brandeis In the frank expression of conflicting opinions lies the greatest promise of wisdom in governmental action.
3 December 2020 Chad Harbach You know, it’s sort of common wisdom among New York publishers that short story collections don’t make money.
3 December 2020 Anne Bradstreet Authority without wisdom is like a heavy ax without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish.
3 December 2020 Felix Frankfurter Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late.
3 December 2020 Thomas Reid Every indication of wisdom, taken from the effect, is equally an indication of power to execute what wisdom planned.
3 December 2020 Michelle Bachelet Women’s strength, women’s industry, women’s wisdom are humankind’s greatest untapped resource. The challenge then for U.N. Women is to show our diverse constituencies how this resource can be effectively tapped in ways that benefit us all.
3 December 2020 Edward Young The weak have remedies, the wise have joys superior wisdom is superior bliss.
3 December 2020 Bob Woodward Many people have their reputations as reporters and analysts because they are on television, batting around conventional wisdom. A lot of these people have never reported a story.
3 December 2020 George Combe They are few in the midst of an overwhelming mass of brute force, and their submission is wisdom but for a nation like England to submit to be robbed by any invader who chooses to visit her shores seemed to me to be nonsense.
3 December 2020 Harold S. Geneen It is much more difficult to measure nonperformance than performance.
3 December 2020 Elizabeth Wurtzel Age is a terrible avenger. The lessons of life give you so much to work with, but by the time you’ve got all this great wisdom, you don’t get to be young anymore.
3 December 2020 William Blake The hours of folly are measured by the clock but of wisdom, no clock can measure.
3 December 2020 James A. Garfield All free governments are managed by the combined wisdom and folly of the people.
