#wisdom

I have no doubt that in reality the future will be vastly more surprising than anything I can imagine. Now my own suspicion is that the Universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose. ↗

— J.B.S. Haldane

#philosophical #science #wisdom #attitude

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

Memory is not wisdom; idiots can by rote repeat volumes. Yet what is wisdom without memory? ↗

— Martin Farquhar Tupper

#memory #repeat #rote #volumes #wisdom

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

— Bernard De Voto

#men #name #nerves #only #pessimism

I'll come to you with gifts of knowledge, wisdom and truth. ↗

— Barry White

#gifts #i #knowledge #truth #wisdom

The wisdom acquired with the passage of time is a useless gift unless you share it. ↗

— Esther Williams

#gift #passage #share #time #unless

Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself. ↗

— Tom Wilson

#age #come #itself #just #necessarily

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

Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#ago #answered #ignorant #men #questions