#wisdo

What could be more lonely than to be enveloped in silence, to be the last of your people to speak your native tongue, to have no way to pass on the wisdom of the elders, to anticipate the promise of the children. This tragic fate is indeed the plight of someone somewhere roughly every two weeks. ↗

— Wade Davis

#children #could #elders #every #fate

We do not sit as a superlegislature to weigh the wisdom of legislation. ↗

— William O. Douglas

#sit #weigh #wisdom

The older I get the more wisdom I find in the ancient rule of taking first things first. A process which often reduces the most complex human problem to a manageable proportion. ↗

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

#complex #find #first #first things #get

Wind is renewable. Turbines are not. ↗

— Ozzie Zehner

#environment #politics #science #wisdom #science

It is wisdom in prosperity, when all is as thou wouldn't have it, to fear and suspect the worst. ↗

— Desiderius Erasmus

#prosperity #suspect #thou #wisdom #worst

There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic: a man's own observation what he finds good of and what he finds hurt of is the best physic to preserve health. ↗

— Francis Bacon

#beyond #finds #good #health #hurt

Do little things every day that no one else seems to want to do, be patient, and success will find you. ↗

— Brandi L. Bates

#elizabeth-gilbert #enlightenment #life #success #wisdom

Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom. ↗

— Walter Benjamin

#counsel #fabric #into #life #real

Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#fool #love #love is #wisdom #wise

Wisdom prepares for the worst, but folly leaves the worst for the day when it comes. ↗