wisdom

"People who count their chickens before they are hatched act very wisely because chickens run about so absurdly that it's impossible to count them accurately..."

"I want very much to tell, to talk about, the wholeness inside every human being. It's a strange thing that every human being has a sort of dignity or wholeness in him, and out of that develops relatio…"

"'Tis from the resemblance of the external actions of animals to those we ourselves perform, that we judge their internal likewise to resemble ours; and the same principle of reasoning, carry'd one ste…"

"But the ingenious machinery contrived by the Gods for reducing human possibilities of amelioration to a minimum — which arranges that wisdom to do shall come pari passu with the departure of zest for …"

"Europe in its infinite wisdom decided to deal with this bankruptcy by loading the largest loan in human history on the weakest of shoulders … What we’ve been having ever since is a kind of fiscal wate…"

"We introduce this theory-development forum by comparing total quality and management theory at both global and topic-specific levels. Our analysis suggests that management research could be enhanced b…"

"No man is the wiser for his learning."

"There are questions I'm still not wise enough to answer, just wise enough to no longer ask."

"Books are waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought."

"1579. Fools may invent Fashions, that wise Men will wear."

"Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately after they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish. And yet it also pleases me and seems right th…"

"Epops: A man may learn wisdom even from a foe."

"These are, of course, some things which, for utility's sake, must be made of the same size in a small theatre, and a large one: such as the steps, curved cross-aisles, their parapets, the passages, st…"

"Philosophy hasn't made any progress?—If someone scratches where it itches, do we have to see progress? Is it not genuine scratching otherwise, or genuine itching?"

"Because the version of Christian faith that Ken Ham espoused tonight is not the version of Christianity that I am a part of. Ham’s understanding of what it means that the Bible is God’s inspired word …"

"I see a sequence of seven main phases: creation,revolution or exodus , law, wisdom, prophecy, gospel, and apocalypse."

"I want to block some common misunderstandings about "understanding": In many of these discussions one finds a lot of fancy footwork about the word "understanding."

"Indeed, diverse cultures were impinging on each other more by the day. In his enormously influential Understanding Media , Marshall McLuhan described the coming world as a “global village," unified by…"

"5779. Wise Men learn by other Men's Harms ; Fools, by their own."

"The greatest misunderstandings occur as to the aims of scientific management. Its fundamental aim is the elimination of waste, the attainment of worth-while desired results with the least necessary am…"