#wisdo

Clinton is a big personality who has led a big life, and for some of the media conventional wisdom to boil it down to a view that 'all people are really interested in' are a few moments of madness in the Oval Office gets him, the importance of the presidency, and the significance of his life, all wrong. ↗

— Alastair Campbell

#boil #clinton #conventional #conventional wisdom #down

What if Barack Obama established a Presidential Advisory Committee that would meet once every couple of months, bringing together the former presidents for a conference in order to seek their collective wisdom? There is a wealth of experience in former presidents that generally goes untapped. ↗

— Tony Campolo

#barack #barack obama #bringing #collective #committee

Mathematics expresses values that reflect the cosmos, including orderliness, balance, harmony, logic, and abstract beauty. ↗

— Deepak Chopra

#balance #beauty #cosmos #deepak-chopra #energy

It is better to risk starving to death then surrender. If you give up on your dreams, what's left? ↗

— Jim Carrey

#better #death #dreams #give #left

Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. People have the right to expect that these wants will be provided for by this wisdom. ↗

— Jimmy Carter

#expect #government #human #human wisdom #people

Vanity can easily overtake wisdom. It usually overtakes common sense. ↗

— Julian Casablancas

#common sense #easily #overtake #overtakes #sense

Patience is the companion of wisdom. ↗

— Saint Augustine

#companion #patience

People don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're happy. ↗

— Anton Chekhov

#happy #notice #people #summer #whether

Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice. ↗

— Anton Chekhov

#into #knowledge #practice #put #unless

Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself; the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#always #disguised #doubts #god #himself