Quotes About Wisdom

In India, knowledge has always been considered more valuable than power, fame or riches. In our tradition, educational institutions are respected as temples of learning.

There's no doubt that having some guys on the bench that have been through things, and that are older and experienced, understand not just the highs but the lows of losing a game. Winning and keeping a steadiness throughout a game, their voice in timeouts, it's really valuable.

There are thousands of experts, creators, and practitioners around the world who have valuable knowledge to share but aren't traditional professors.

Discretion is a very valuable asset.

The most valuable thing you can have as a leader is clear data.

I love my mother and father. The older I get, the more I value everything that they gave me.

Too many people today know the price of everything and the value of nothing.

The principal point of cleverness is to know how to value things just as they deserve.

You know the value of every article of merchandise, but if you don't know the value of your own soul, it's all foolishness.

Of what value is a mind when placed in the brain of a coward? If mind is a gift of God to man for his use, let him use it. A mind is not in use when doing no good.

The value of a principle is the number of things it will explain.

What could I say to you that would be of value, except that perhaps you seek too much, that as a result of your seeking you cannot find.

First you learn the value of abstraction, then you learn the cost of abstraction, then you're ready to engineer.

Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of ages through which they passed.

Let ignorance talk as it will, learning has its value.

Truth can be costly, but in the end it never falls short of value for the price paid.

Any experience can be transformed into something of value.

I think there's value in experience and observations that link past to present.

I think enough cannot be said for what you can discover through literature. So I think that was probably my most valued characteristic as a teenager.

My grandmother valued even the smallest of things.

There's a conventional wisdom that says that strategic thinking is much more important than relationship building, which doesn't seem to be nearly as highly valued as it should be, based on what some of the leaders that I've spoken with have said to me.

Don't let your special character and values, the secret that you know and no one else does, the truth - don't let that get swallowed up by the great chewing complacency.

We have to rediscover the eternal values and then live them out.

Our shared values define us more than our differences. And acknowledging those shared values can see us through our challenges today if we have the wisdom to trust in them again.