Spending two years on my uncle's ranch in Montana as a young man gave me the wisdom and the thrust to do westerns.
Robert Duvall
It has become part of the accepted wisdom to say that the twentieth century was the century of physics and the twenty-first century will be the... →
Freeman Dyson
Hurricane Katrina overwhelmed levees and exploded the conventional wisdom about a shared American prosperity, exposing a group of people so poor they... →
Michael Eric Dyson
The biggest handicap in research is an ability to think outside the box. The handicap is being encumbered by all the conventional wisdom in a given... →
Aubrey de Grey
In order to predict effectively, we need to use science. And the reason that we need to use science is because then we can reproduce what we're... →
Bruce Bueno de Mesquita
Lord, bless me with the ability to achieve all that I can, and the wisdom to realize it doesn't all have to be by tomorrow!
William Eardley IV
Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn't be done.
Amelia Earhart
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
Albert Einstein
The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.
The older I get the more wisdom I find in the ancient rule of taking first things first. A process which often reduces the most complex human problem... →
Dwight D. Eisenhower