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Quotes About Wisdom

If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner.
~ Omar N. Bradley
Yoga is a technology for arriving in this present moment. It is a means of waking up from our spiritual amnesia, so that we can remember all that we already know.
~ Donna Farhi
I would trade all of my technology for an afternoon with Socrates.
~ Steve Jobs
Technology is so much fun but we can drown in our technology. The fog of information can drive out knowledge.
~ Daniel J. Boorstin
It is a mania shared by philosophers of all ages to deny what exists and to explain what does not exist.
~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau
What you earn depends on what you learn.
~ William J. Clinton
In every case do the opposite to whatever technology does today. Then you will always be on the right track.
~ Viktor Schauberger
I hate to mention age, but I come from an era when we weren't consumed by technology and television.
~ Jimmy Buffett
Only small minds are impressed by large numbers.
~ Arthur C. Clarke
I know what I don't know. To this day, I don't know technology, and I don't know finance or accounting.
~ Bernard Ebbers
Never try to walk across a river just because it has an average depth of four feet.
~ Martin Friedman
Philosophy began when man ate the produce of the earth and suffered indigestion.
~ Khalil Gibran
The fog of information can drive out knowledge.
~ Daniel J. Boorstin
..books look as if they contain knowledge, while e-readers look as if they contain information.
~ Julian Barnes
A theory must be tempered with reality.
~ Jawaharlal Nehru
So many of my rookie mistakes could have been avoided by first-hand exposure to other, more experienced technology entrepreneurs.
~ Kathryn Minshew
You cannot acquire experience by making experiments. You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
~ Albert Camus
There are more truths in twenty-four hours of a man's life than in all the philosophies.
~ Raoul Vaneigem
Science should be on tap, not on top.
~ Winston Churchill
However advanced the technology may become, life is impossible without humanity, and that's why we need a combination of science of thinking and art of living!
~ Narendra Modi
Be wary of technology; it is often merely an improved means to an unimproved end.
~ Henry David Thoreau
If God meant for people to fly, He would have given them brains.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
The tools that would teach men their own use would be beyond price.
~ Plato, The Republic
I am sorry to say there is too much point to the wise crack that life is extinct on other planets because their scientists were more advanced than ours.
~ John F. Kennedy