All conventional wisdom has an element of truth to it, but good design requires more than an element of truth - it requires an ensemble of correct assumptions and valid calculations.
~ Henry Petroski
Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought - asleep. When we are weary of the living, we may repair to the dead, who have nothing of peevishness, pride, or design in their conversation.
~ William Butler Yeats
The wisdom of crowds works when the crowd is choosing the price of an ox, when there's a single numeric average. But if it's a design or something that matters, the decision is made by committee, and that's crap. You want people and groups who are able to think thoughts before they share.
~ Jaron Lanier
Linux is a complex example of the wisdom of crowds. It's a good example in the sense that it shows you can set people to work in a decentralized way - that is, without anyone really directing their efforts in a particular direction - and still trust that they're going to come up with good answers.
~ James Surowiecki
During the Arab Spring, I learned all sorts of things from Twitter. I wouldn't necessarily trust that information, but it gave me ideas about questions to ask. You can really learn things from the wisdom of crowds.
~ Nicholas Kristof
The democratic system is premised on trust in the masses' wisdom. We believe that the collective is wiser than its parts and that, at the end of the day, it shall make the right choices and take the right decisions.
~ Yair Lapid
If you are bitter, you are like a dry leaf that you can just squash, and you can get blown away by the wind. There is much more wisdom in forgiveness.
~ Vusi Mahlasela
The way a woman carries herself and the way she dresses ought to promote the following types of words: modesty, discretion, wisdom, beauty, elegance and refinement, but not sensuality, luxury, extravagance.
~ Paul Washer
The arts, quite simply, nourish the soul. They sustain, comfort, inspire. There is nothing like that exquisite moment when you first discover the beauty of connecting with others in celebration of larger ideals and shared wisdom.
~ Gordon Gee
What is man's ultimate direction in life? It is to look for love, truth, virtue, and beauty.
~ Shinichi Suzuki
Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes
In youth and beauty, wisdom is but rare!
~ Homer
Wisdom I know is social. She seeks her fellows. But Beauty is jealous, and illy bears the presence of a rival.
~ Thomas Jefferson
In your 20s you can be pretty, but you don't accomplish real beauty until you find wisdom and depth.
~ Evangeline Lilly
One of the most beautiful passages of Rousseau is that in the sixth book of Confessions, where he describes the awakening in him of the literary sense. Of such wisdom, the poetic passion, the desire of beauty, the love of art for its own sake, has most.
~ Walter Pater
Beauty, the eternal Spouse of the Wisdom of God and Angel of his Presence thru' all creation.
~ Robert Bridges
I have no agenda except to be funny. Neither I or the writers profess to offer any worldly wisdom.
~ Julia Louis-Dreyfus
Imagination allows us to escape the predictable. It enables us to reply to the common wisdom that we cannot soar by saying, 'Just watch!'
~ Bill Bradley
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
~ William James
Wisdom is nothing but a preparation of the soul, a capacity, a secret art of thinking, feeling and breathing thoughts of unity at every moment of life.
~ Herman Hesse
In seeking wisdom thou art wise in imagining that thou hast attained it - thou art a fool.
~ Philip Stanhope
Community organizing is all about building grassroots support. It's about identifying the people around you with whom you can create a common, passionate cause. And it's about ignoring the conventional wisdom of company politics and instead playing the game by very different rules.
~ Tom Peters
Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom and a great empire and little minds go ill together.
~ Edmund Burke
Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.
~ Epicurus
To embrace the whole world in friendship is wisdom. This wisdom is not changeable like the flowers that bloom and fade.
~ Thiruvalluvar
I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship.
~ Pietro Aretino
The divine wisdom which requires a division of labor has sown different abilities and tendencies in human nature and has enabled human beings to carry out the duty of establishing sciences and developing technology. The fulfillment of this duty is obligatory upon humanity as a whole, though not on every individual.
~ Said Nursi
Who in their infinite wisdom decreed that Little League uniforms be white? Certainly not a mother.
~ Erma Bombeck
My mom calls me an older soul because, growing up, she taught me stuff real early. Now I spend most of my time chasing wisdom, chasing understanding.
~ Ray Lewis
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
Perhaps religious conscience upsets the designs of those who feel that the highest wisdom and authority comes from government. But from the beginning, this nation trusted in God, not man. Religious liberty is the first freedom in our Constitution.
~ Mitt Romney
There is often, in the affairs of government, more efficiency and wisdom in non-action than in action.
~ John C. Calhoun
I have no wisdom to share on dating.
~ Rachel Dratch
There are three faithful friends - an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
~ Benjamin Franklin
We are to seek wisdom and understanding only in the length of days.
~ Robert Hall
I've led a school whose faculty and students examine and discuss and debate every aspect of our law and legal system. And what I've learned most is that no one has a monopoly on truth or wisdom. I've learned that we make progress by listening to each other, across every apparent political or ideological divide.
~ Elena Kagan
