Quotes About Wisdom

Response is always better than reaction.

When access to information was limited, we needed to load student sup with facts. Now, when we have no scarcity of facts or the access to them, we need to load them up with understanding.

Let's define dumb as being different from stupid. Dumb means you don't know what you're supposed to know. Stupid means you know it but make bad choices. […] Dumb used to be a by-product of lack of access, bad teachers, or poor parenting. Today, dumb is a choice, one that's made by individuals who choose not to learn. If you don't know what you need to know, that's fixable. But first you have to want to fix it.

If you can discipline yourself to read, you can free up two years of your life for the good stuff!)

The art of leadership is understanding what you can't compromise on.

Winners understand that taking that pain now prevents a lot more pain later.

If the game is designed for you to lose, don't play that game. Play a different one.

Hay dos errores que podemos cometer en el camino hacia la verdad.   No recorrer todo el camino, y no empezar.»   Siddha¯rta Gautama

If you are making a decision based on how you feel at that moment, you will probably make the wrong decision.

omniscience

There's a difference between passively accepting every element of your environment (and thus missing opportunities to exploit) and being wise enough to leave the unchangeable alone, or at least work around it.

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The wisdom of peasants shows itself in their ability to pretend that they are fools.

Tapi apa yang ditetapkan Tuhan tentunya lebih baik daripada yang bisa diberikan atau yang terpikir oleh manusia.

Tuhan menciptakan segala sesuatu untuk kebaikan. Dan untuk kebaikan ini pula dia menganugerahkan kepada manusia kemampuan berpikir; tapi kita manusia kadang-kadang menggunakan kemampuan diskriminasi ini secara keliru. Inilah kejahatan.

Who buys a minute's mirth to wail a week? Or sell eternity to get a toy? For one grape who will the vine destroy?

From women's eyes this doctrine I derive: They sparkle still the right Promethean fire; They are the books, the arts, the academes, That show, contain and nourish all the world.

That truth should be silent I had almost forgot. (Enobarbus)

Well said, old mole!

A fool and his words are soon parted

Let life be short, else shame will be too long.

Would the fountain of your mind were clear again, that I might water an ass at it!

Thou art as wise as thou art beautiful

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