712 private quotes tagged wisdom

“Teach you children poetry it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.”— Walter Scott

“Conventional wisdom notwithstanding, there is no reason either in football or in poetry why the two should not meet in a man's life if he has the weight and cares about the words.”— Archibald MacLeish

“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

“The more tranquil a man becomes, the greater is his success, his influence, his power for good. Calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom.”— James Allen

“What makes Superman a hero is not that he has power, but that he has the wisdom and the maturity to use the power wisely. From an acting point of view, that's how I approached the part.”— Christopher Reeve

“Lessons of wisdom have the most power over us when they capture the heart through the groundwork of a story, which engages the passions.”— Laurence Sterne

“Our bodies are at once the receiving and transmitting stations for life itself. It is the highest wisdom to recognize this fact and train our bodies to render them sensitive and responsive to nature. art and religion.”— Ruth St. Denis

“The marvel of the Bhagavad-Gita is its truly beautiful revelation of life's wisdom which enables philosophy to blossom into religion.”— Herman Hesse

“Second, this epic tale allows the audience to actually listen to the Native Americans and receive their wisdom. Spielberg conveys the respect for Native Americans that is normally lacking in Western films.”— Beau Bridges

“There is as much wisdom in listening as there is in speaking - and that goes for all relationships, not just romantic ones.”— Daniel Dae Kim

“Science is always discovering odd scraps of magical wisdom and making a tremendous fuss about its cleverness.”— Aleister Crowley

“There was endless action - not just football, but sailboats, tennis and other things: movement. There was endless talk - the ambassador at the head of the table laying out the prevailing wisdom, but everyone else weighing in with their opinions and taking part.”— Charles Spalding

“Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.”— Phil Jackson

“Strength and wisdom are not opposing values.”— William J. Clinton

“Women's strength, women's industry, women's wisdom are humankind's greatest untapped resource. The challenge then for U.N. Women is to show our diverse constituencies how this resource can be effectively tapped in ways that benefit us all.”— Michelle Bachelet

“I love the music of Lauryn Hill and Erykah Badu and more recently the music of Laura Marling. All these women share a strength and a wisdom in their voices and music that really makes me want to make music and sing.”— Lianne La Havas

“Along with success comes a reputation for wisdom.”— Euripides

“Singleness of purpose is one of the chief essentials for success in life, no matter what may be one's aim.”— John D. Rockefeller

“As you walk in God's divine wisdom, you will surely begin to see a greater measure of victory and good success in your life.”— Joseph Prince

“I have sympathy for young people, for their growing pains, but I balk when these growing pains are pushed into the foreground, when you make these young people the only vehicles of life's wisdom.”— Wislawa Szymborska

“Evil can be a teacher, if you look at the wisdom of its negative power.”— Tom Brown, Jr.

“If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner.”— Omar N. Bradley

“A man begins cutting his wisdom teeth the first time he bites off more than he can chew.”— Herb Caen

“We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom. The world henceforth will be run by synthesizers, people able to put together the right information at the right time, think critically about it, and make important choices wisely.”— E. O. Wilson

“It is essential to employ, trust, and reward those whose perspective, ability, and judgment are radically different from yours. It is also rare, for it requires uncommon humility, tolerance, and wisdom.”— Dee Hock