Quotes About Wisdom

The skeptical Silberstein came up to Eddington and said that people believed that only three scientists in the world understood general relativity. He had been told that Eddington was one of them. The shy Quaker said nothing. "Don't be so modest, Eddington!" said Silberstein. Replied Eddington, "On the contrary. I'm just wondering who the third might be."30

Men ought not to play God before they learn to be men.

He has a second-rate mind but a first-rate intuition about people," Kissinger once said of Rockefeller. "I have a first-rate mind but a third-rate intuition about people.

intuition is nothing but the outcome of earlier intellectual experience.

People will provide judgment, intuition, empathy, a moral compass, and human creativity.

l'immaginazione è più importante della conoscenza.

The Autobiography of a Yogi

Every reasonable person must strive to promote moderation and a more objective judgment.

Busque el conocimiento por sí mismo.

The older I get, the more I see how much motivations matter.

One useful leadership talent is knowing when to push ahead against doubters and when to heed them.

They consider people who don't know Hamlet from Macbeth to be Philistines, yet they might merrily admit that they don't know the difference between a gene and a chromosome, or a transistor and a capacitor, or an integral and differential equation. These concepts might seem difficult. Yes, but so, too, is Hamlet. And like Hamlet, each of these concepts is beautiful. Like an elegant mathematical equation, they are expressions of the glories of the universe.

if you suggested to people what the right thing to do would be, they would be smart enough to pick it up and do it

It was an application of Markkula's admonition that it was

Jobs lembrou-se do incidente vividamente porque foi a primeira vez que percebeu que seu pai não sabia tudo.

Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind by Shunryu Suzuki, Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda, and Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism by Chögyam Trungpa. They

but intuition is nothing but the outcome of earlier intellectual experience.

Nothing kills humor like a general and boring truth.

There's an old Hindu saying that goes, 'In the first 30 years of your life, you make your habits. For the last 30 years of your life, your habits make you.

the simplicity that comes from conquering complexities, not ignoring them.

Like Jobs, Wozniak learned a lot at his father's knee. But their lessons were different. Paul Jobs was a high school dropout who, when fixing up cars, knew how to turn a tidy profit by striking the right deal on parts. Francis

Una de sus máximas clave relativas a la inversión era apostar por la gente más que por la idea.

Einstein once said, "but intuition is nothing but the outcome of earlier intellectual experience.

It's rare that you see an artist in his thirties or forties able to really contribute something amazing," Jobs declared as he was about to turn thirty.