#wisdo

To build a great company, which is a CEO's job, sometimes you have to stand up against conventional wisdom. ↗

— Carly Fiorina

#build #ceo #company #conventional #conventional wisdom

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

#come #dying #many #mature #may

Pessimism is only the name that men of weak nerves give to wisdom. ↗

— Bernard De Voto

#men #name #nerves #only #pessimism

Life is the only real counselor; wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue. ↗

— Edith Wharton

#counselor #does #experience #life #moral

It is the neglect of timely repair that makes rebuilding necessary. ↗

— Richard Whately

#makes #necessary #neglect #rebuilding #repair

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

#about #choices #critically #drowning #henceforth

It seems to me that, in every culture, I come across a chapter headed "Wisdom." And then I know exactly what is going to follow: "Vanity of vanities, all is vanity." ↗

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

#chapter #come #culture #every #exactly

Wisdom is oftentimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar. ↗

— William Wordsworth

#oftentimes #soar #stoop #than #wisdom

Age is a terrible avenger. The lessons of life give you so much to work with, but by the time you've got all this great wisdom, you don't get to be young anymore. ↗

— Elizabeth Wurtzel

#anymore #by the time #get #give #got

The future has already arrived. It's just not evenly distributed yet. ↗

— William Gibson

#already #arrived #distributed #evenly #future