#wisdo

Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power. If you realize that you have enough, you are truly rich. ↗

— Lao Tzu

#intelligence

He who stands for nothing will fall for anything. ↗

— Alexander Hamilton

#conviction #ignorance #intelligence #stand #strength

It is not that I'm so smart. But I stay with the questions much longer. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#learning #wisdom #intelligence

The best index to a person's character is how he treats people who can't do him any good, and how he treats people who can't fight back. ↗

— Abigail Van Buren

#life #wisdom #life

We must be willing to let go of the life we planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us. ↗

— Joseph Campbell

#life

It is good even for old men to learn wisdom. ↗

— Aeschylus

#good #learn #men #old #old men

After all my possessions had been burned, God gave me the wisdom to return to Jerusalem. ↗

— Shmuel Y. Agnon

#been #burned #gave #god #had

Central banks don't have divine wisdom. They try to do the best analysis they can and must be prepared to stand or fall by the quality of that analysis. ↗

— Mary Kay Ash

#banks #be prepared #best #central #divine

It would indeed be a tragedy if the history of the human race proved to be nothing more than the story of an ape playing with a box of matches on a petrol dump. ↗

— David Ormsby Gore

#nature

After 25-plus years as a lawyer, prosecutor, and defense attorney, I have developed a deep appreciation for both the wisdom of the law and the role that jurists play in framing the rights and responsibilities that define our society. ↗

— Eliot Spitzer

#appreciation #attorney #both #deep #defense