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Kenichi Fukui on wisdom
Author: Kenichi Fukui“In particular, for younger researchers on whom the future of mankind may depend. We believe that they are working with all the scientific wisdom at their disposal for the preservation of the inheritance of the earth and for the lasting survival of mankind.” -Kenichi Fukui
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Cat Cora on wisdom
Author: Cat Cora“Even when you have doubts, take that step. Take chances. Mistakes are never a failure – they can be turned into wisdom.” -Cat Cora
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Bob Woodward on wisdom
Author: Bob Woodward“Many people have their reputations as reporters and analysts because they are on television, batting around conventional wisdom. A lot of these people have never reported a story.” -Bob Woodward
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Dick Cheney on wisdom
Author: Dick Cheney“The plan was criticized by some retired military officers embedded in TV studios. But with every advance by our coalition forces, the wisdom of that plan becomes more apparent.” -Dick Cheney
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Michael Sheen on wisdom
Author: Michael Sheen“When I was at drama school, I wanted to change the world, and thought I had some great wisdom to impart to people about humanity. Now that I’m older, I know enough to realise that I know nothing at all.” -Michael Sheen
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Arthur Helps on wisdom
Author: Arthur Helps“We all admire the wisdom of people who come to us for advice.” -Arthur Helps
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Edward Young on wisdom
Author: Edward Young“The clouds may drop down titles and estates, and wealth may seek us, but wisdom must be sought.” -Edward Young
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Anthony Trollope on wisdom
Author: Anthony Trollope“It may almost be a question whether such wisdom as many of us have in our mature years has not come from the dying out of the power of temptation, rather than as the results of thought and resolution.” -Anthony Trollope
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Jane Fonda on wisdom
Author: Jane Fonda“One part of wisdom is knowing what you don’t need anymore and letting it go.” -Jane Fonda
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Kenny Rogers on wisdom
Author: Kenny Rogers“There is a trade off – as you grow older you gain wisdom but you lose spontaneity.” -Kenny Rogers
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Zoe Saldana on wisdom
Author: Zoe Saldana“I’m very accepting with my age. It’s like notches on your belt: experience, wisdom, and a different kind of beauty. There comes a day when you’ve become comfortable in your skin.” -Zoe Saldana
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Janet Jackson on wisdom
Author: Janet Jackson“In complete darkness, it is only knowledge and wisdom that separates us.” -Janet Jackson
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Samuel Smiles on wisdom
Author: Samuel Smiles“The experience gathered from books, though often valuable, is but the nature of learning whereas the experience gained from actual life is one of the nature of wisdom.” -Samuel Smiles
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Daisaku Ikeda on wisdom
Author: Daisaku Ikeda“History is filled with tragic examples of wars that result from diplomatic impasse. Whether in our local communities or in international relations, the skillful use of our communicative capacities to negotiate and resolve differences is the first evidence of human wisdom.” -Daisaku Ikeda
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Evelyn Waugh on wisdom
Author: Evelyn Waugh“He was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the rich.” -Evelyn Waugh
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Myrtle Reed on wisdom
Author: Myrtle Reed“Silence and reserve will give anyone a reputation for wisdom.” -Myrtle Reed
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Julie Burchill on wisdom
Author: Julie Burchill“It’s received wisdom that the English are uniquely child-unfriendly.” -Julie Burchill
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Nigel Farage on wisdom
Author: Nigel Farage“If an idea is indeed sensible, it will eventually become just part of the accepted wisdom.” -Nigel Farage
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Robert Duvall on wisdom
Author: Robert Duvall“Spending two years on my uncle’s ranch in Montana as a young man gave me the wisdom and the thrust to do westerns.” -Robert Duvall
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Pierre Charron on wisdom
Author: Pierre Charron“The most excellent and divine counsel, the best and most profitable advertisement of all others, but the least practiced, is to study and learn how to know ourselves. This is the foundation of wisdom and the highway to whatever is good.” -Pierre Charron
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Tom Peters on wisdom
Author: Tom Peters“Community organizing is all about building grassroots support. It’s about identifying the people around you with whom you can create a common, passionate cause. And it’s about ignoring the conventional wisdom of company politics and instead playing the game by very different rules.” -Tom Peters
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Igor Stravinsky on wisdom
Author: Igor Stravinsky“I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge.” -Igor Stravinsky
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will.i.am on wisdom
Author: will.i.am“If you have a vaccine or an antidote that people can benefit from, you’re not going to want to keep it to yourself. You’re going to want to spread that wisdom or whatever to as many people as you can, so everybody can benefit from it.” -will.i.am
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Jonathan Sacks on wisdom
Author: Jonathan Sacks“Focus on the mind and the soul. Read. Study. Enrol in a course of lectures. Pray. Become a member of a religious congregation. Study the Bible or other ancient works of wisdom.” -Jonathan Sacks
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Freeman Dyson on wisdom
Author: Freeman Dyson“It has become part of the accepted wisdom to say that the twentieth century was the century of physics and the twenty-first century will be the century of biology.” -Freeman Dyson