“Around '93, '94, the conventional wisdom about the Internet was that it was a toy for academics and researchers. So it was very, very underestimated for about two years.”
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“Sciences may be learned by rote, but wisdom not.”
“You know, many people have said that I'm on the edge and I'm maverick for some of the big operations that I've done. I'm not at all. I pray I ask God to give me wisdom, 'Should I do it?', guidance in terms of how to do it, who to consult with. All those kind of things are incredibly important.”
“Wisdom and understanding can only become the possession of individual men by travelling the old road of observation, attention, perseverance, and industry.”
“To build a great company, which is a CEO's job, sometimes you have to stand up against conventional wisdom.”
“It is almost everywhere the case that soon after it is begotten the greater part of human wisdom is laid to rest in repositories.”
“Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.”
“Wisdom consists not so much in knowing what to do in the ultimate as knowing what to do next.”
“All free governments are managed by the combined wisdom and folly of the people.”
“In my own personal life, God plays a great role in the risk, because I pray before I go into the operating room for every case, and I ask him to give me wisdom, to help me to know what to do - and not only for operating, but for everything.”
“No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool. Writers, alas, have to be fools in public, while the rest of the human race can cover its tracks.”
“My mother is a great source of advice and wisdom and consolation for me.”
“Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences.”
“Sometimes one likes foolish people for their folly, better than wise people for their wisdom.”
“I'm not wise, but the beginning of wisdom is there it's like relaxing into - and an acceptance of - things.”
“Wisdom is knowing when you can't be wise.”
“The Divine wisdom has given us prayer, not as a means whereby to obtain the good things of earth, but as a means whereby we learn to do without them not as a means whereby we escape evil, but as a means whereby we become strong to meet it.”
“The left has come to regard common sense - the traditional wisdom and folkways of the community - as an obstacle to progress and enlightenment.”
“I always see where I didn't do things the right way. I only see the heavy lifting. That's a bit of my wisdom, if you want to call it that.”
“Saudi Arabia is a puritanical state that claims a monopoly of wisdom and virtue.”
“Purity engenders Wisdom, Passion avarice, and Ignorance folly, infatuation and darkness.”
“Vanity can easily overtake wisdom. It usually overtakes common sense.”
“Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency.”
“I acknowledge the privilege of being alive in a human body at this moment, endowed with senses, memories, emotions, thoughts, and the space of mind in its wisdom aspect.”