Quotes About Wisdom

Celebrate your mistakes.

as odd as it may seem, it is actually more important for leaders to focus on making their organizations healthy than on making them smart.

Good leaders drive commitment among the team by first extracting every possible idea, opinion, and perspective from the team. Then, comfortable that nothing has been left off the table, they must have the courage and wisdom to step up and make a decision, one that is sure to run counter to at least one of the team members, and usually more.

Sounds crazy and counterintuitive, I know, but it is true.

I don't discuss 'issues' with anyone. And it's a vile, infantile word, you'd be wise to eliminate it from your slim vocabulary.

In quelle settimane invecchiai di parecchi anni, imparai molte cose sullo spirito e su quella sacca simile a una pera, grossa come un pugno e divisa in quattro cavità che chiamiamo cuore.

it has always seemed to me that books are the supreme decorations of a room

When Jack came in he found him sitting before a tray of bird's skins and labels. Stephen looked up, and after a moment said, 'To a tormented mind there is nothing, I believe, more irritating than comfort. Apart from anything else it often implies superior wisdom in the comforter. But I am very sorry for your trouble, my dear.' 'Thank you, Stephen. Had you told me that there was always a tomorrow, I think I should have thrust your calendar down your throat.

Come all you thoughtless young men, a warning take by me And never leave your happy homes to sail the raging sea.

Virtue should always be colmingled with humor.

Invincible ignorance could not be enlightened; and

He that would make a pun would pick a pocket.

He considered old age and its mutilations and wondered what it would do for him: examples presented themselves to his mind, not only of mental decay, physical weakness, gout, stone and rheumatism, but of boastful mendacious garrulity, intense and peevish selfishness; timidity if not cowardice, dirt, concupiscence, avarice.

God,' he thought, 'never let me outlive my wits.

Yet whether wisdom can be any more profitably pursued than happiness is a question.

He considered old age and its mutilations and wondered what it would do for him:

variety of other wise saws sprang to Stephen's indignant mind – words and feathers are carried off by the wind; as is the wedding, so is the cake; do not speak Arabic in the house of the Moor; pleasures pass but sorrows stay; love, grief and money cannot be concealed

Why, to be sure, something sad seems to happen to your great men and your admirals, with age, pretty often: even to your post-captains. A kind of atrophy, a withering-away of the head and the heart. I conceive it may arise from Ã¢â'¬Â¦

you cannot expect old heads on young shoulders;

none of the peevishness and ill-nature so usual in the elderly.

I would like to believe in the myth that we grow wiser with age. In a sense my disbelief is wisdom. Those of a middle generation, if charitable or sentimental, subscribe to the wisdom myth, while the callous see us as dispensable objects, like broken furniture or dead flowers. For the young we scarcely exist unless we are unavoidable members of the same family, farting, slobbering, perpetually mislaying teeth and bifocals.

Good questions outrank easy answers.

it's wrong to be right; it's right to be wrong.

Once you accept the fact that life isn't fun, you'll be much happier, his mother said to him.