#wisdom

If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail. ↗

— Abraham Maslow

#every #hammer #nail #only #problem

It is not white hair that engenders wisdom. ↗

— Menander

#hair #white #wisdom

Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#collective #democracy #ignorance #individual #pathetic

The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#age #brings #distrust #doctrine #familiar

Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#always #comes #excel #experience #itself

The perceived wisdom is that people do not go in large numbers to black-and-white movies anymore - which is a great shame, but I'd love to make a black-and-white movie one day. ↗

— Sam Mendes

#black-and-white #day #go #great #i

God the Father, the supreme Architect, had already built this cosmic home we behold, the most sacred temple of His godhead, by the laws of His mysterious wisdom. ↗

— Giovanni Pico della Mirandola

#architect #behold #built #cosmic #father

Man's wisdom is his best friend; folly his worst enemy. ↗

— William Temple

#best #best friend #enemy #folly #friend

Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. ↗

— John Muir

#climb #get #good #mountains #their

A great memory is never made synonymous with wisdom, any more than a dictionary would be called a treatise. ↗

— John Henry Newman

#called #dictionary #great #made #memory