Wisdom Quotes - Page 40

• Conventional wisdom is not to put all of your eggs in one basket. 80/20 wisdom is to choose a basket carefully, load all your eggs into it, and then watch it like a hawk.

  Richard Koch

  Eggs, Watches, Hawks

  Richard Koch (2011). “The 80/20 Principle”, p.33, Nicholas Brealey Publishing

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• Miracle workers learn to keep their own counsel. Something that's important to know about spiritual wisdom is that, when spoken at the wrong time, in the wrong place, or to the wrong person, the one who speaks sounds more like a fool than a wise one.

  Marianne Williamson

  Wise, Spiritual, Miracle

  Marianne Williamson (1992). “A return to love: reflections on the principles of "A course in miracles"”

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• . . . Intelligence is not the same thing as wisdom.

  Laozi

  Intelligence

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• ...there is in life an element of elfin coincidence which people reckoning on the prosaic may perpetually miss. As it has been well expressed in the paradox of Poe, wisdom should reason on the unforeseen.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  People, Missing, Elements

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• The fact that cognitive diversity matters does not mean that if you assemble a group of diverse but thoroughly uninformed people, their collective wisdom will be smarter than an expert's. But if you can assemble a diverse group of people who possess varying degrees of knowledge and insight, you're better off entrusting it with major decisions rather than leaving them in the hands of one or two people, no matter how smart those people are.

  James Surowiecki

  Smart, Mean, Hands

  James Surowiecki (2005). “The Wisdom of Crowds”, p.31, Anchor

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• Labor is blossoming or dancing where The body is not bruised to pleasure soul, Nor beauty born out of its own despair, Nor blear-eyed wisdom out of midnight oil. O chestnut tree, great-rooted blossomer, Are you the leaf, the blossom or the bole? O body swayed to music, O brightening glance How can we know the dancer from the dance?

  William Butler Yeats

  Oil, Dancing, Dancer

  "Among School Children" l. 57 (1928) See Quarles 1

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• We estimate the wisdom of nations by seeing what they did with their surplus capital.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Surplus, Nations, Seeing

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.340, Penguin

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• We are in fact convinced that if we are ever to have pure knowledge of anything, we must get rid of the body and contemplate things by themselves with the soul by itself. It seems, to judge from the argument, that the wisdom which we desire and upon which we profess to have set our hearts will be attainable only when we are dead and not in our lifetime.

  Socrates

  Heart, Knowledge, Judging

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• One man's justice is another's injustice; one man's beauty another's ugliness; one man's wisdom anpther's folly.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Justice, Folly

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• A famously wise old man in a village was once asked how he came by his wisdom. "I got it from my good judgment," he answered. And where did his good judgment come from? "I got it from my bad judgment."

  Sydney J. Harris

  Wise, Men, Village

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• He who seeks wisdom is a wise man; he who thinks he has found it is mad.

  Seneca the Younger

  Wise, Men, Thinking

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• Consideration is the soil in which wisdom may be expected to grow, and strength be given to every up-springing plant of duty.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  May, Soil, Consideration

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• Because right is right, to follow right Were wisdom in the scorn of consequence.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Scorn, Consequence

  Alfred Tennyson Tennyson, Baron, Alfred Lord Tennyson (2014). “Fifty Poems”, p.57, Cambridge University Press

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• We cannot judge fully of men's works by what we see, or what is said and thought of them; for man is prone to depreciate that which is really important, and to exact and extol what is trivial and of little worth. Many things which are hidden and unrecognized of human wisdom are nevertheless valuable and vitally important.

  Orson F. Whitney

  Men, Judging, Important

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• In spite of every sage whom Greece can show, Unerring wisdom never dwelt below; Folly in all of every age we see, The only difference lies in the degree.

  Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

  Lying, Differences, Age

  "Satires (Satire 4)". Book by Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux, 1716.

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• Humility is the part of wisdom, and is most becoming in men. But let no one discourage self-reliance; it is, of all the rest, the greatest quality of true manliness.

  Lajos Kossuth

  Humility, Men, Self

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• . . . integral wisdom involves a direct participation in every moment: the observer and the observed are dissolved in the light of pure awareness, and no mental concepts or attitudes are present to dim that light.

  Laozi

  Attitude, Light, Moments

  Laozi, Brian Browne Walker (1992). “Hua Hu Ching: Teachings of Lao Tzu”

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• Not only does inspiration from the Lord compensate for want of facts; it also induces men by self-discipline, to conform in their personal conduct and in their dealings one with another to the highest standards they know. In other words, it gives men the capacity which distinguishes wisdom from knowledge.

  Marion G. Romney

  Inspiration, Men, Self

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• My brothers, seek counsel of one another, for therein lies the way out of error and futile repentance. The wisdom of the many is your shield against tyranny. For when we turn to one another for counsel we reduce the number of our enemies.

  Khalil Gibran

  Brother, Lying, Errors

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• Success: The successful person is willing to do what the unsuccessful person is not willing to do. Draw a profile of success in whatever you are choosing to improve. If you are willing to do what that profile demands, then you have a credible demand of success. If you are not willing to do that then it just will not be there for you. You can't have the one without the other.

  Hyrum W. Smith

  Success, Peace, Demand

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• Without the body, the wisdom of the larger self cannot be known.

  John P. Conger

  Garden, Self, Body

  John P. Conger (2005). “Jung & Reich: The Body as Shadow”, p.183, North Atlantic Books

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• God has bestowed upon you intelligence and knowledge. Do not extinguish the lamp of Divine Grace and do not let the candle of wisdom die out in the darkness of lust and error. For a wise man approaches with his torch to light up the path of mankind.

  Khalil Gibran

  Wise, Men, Errors

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• Vain wisdom all, and false philosophy.

  John Milton

  Philosophy, Vain, Paradise Lost Book 2

  'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 2, l. 562

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• Character: The ability to carry out a worthy decision after the emotion of making that decision has passed. Character simply stated is doing what you said you were going to do. If you develop a reputation for that, do you have any idea the effect that has on self-perception? Its immense, just immense. The Savior was a man of character. He did everything he said he was going to do.

  Hyrum W. Smith

  Success, Peace, Character

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• Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.

  Francis Beaumont

  Lying, Honor, Eating

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