Wisdeom Quotes & Sayings

Any conversation I have about innovation starts with the ultimate goal. — Sergey Brin

Nobody pays attention to the way a person's shirt folds around his shoulder when they sit down, but if that shirt folded in an unusual way, you'd notice it. — John Lasseter

Quite often governments are one way and the people are another. — Henry Rollins

I got the travel bug when I was quite young. My parents took me and my sisters out of school and we travelled all over Europe. It was an eye-opening experience and, although I love Norway, I also enjoy visiting new countries. I don't get homesick. — Magnus Carlsen

Without constant restoration we are not ready for the perpetual assaults of hell, or the stern afflictions of heaven, or even for the strifes within. When the whirlwind shall be loosed, woe to the tree that has not sucked up fresh sap, and grasped the rock with many intertwisted roots. When tempests arise, woe to the mariners that have not strengthened their mast, nor cast their anchor, nor sought the haven. If we allow the good to grow weaker, the evil will surely gather strength and struggle desperately for the mastery over us; and so, perhaps, a painful desolation, and a lamentable disgrace may follow. Let us draw near to the footstool of divine mercy in humble entreaty, and we shall realize the fulfillment of the promise, Those who wait on the Lord shall renew their strength. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

If one is unable to buy Courvoisier, one should forcibly restrain oneself from serving strawberries Romanoff for dessert. — Harlan Ellison

Dali was Renaissance man converted to psychoanalysis. — Salvador Dali

I open and fill with
LOVE and what is not
LOVE ... evaporates! — Rumi

Before parents accept the wisdeom of a school board to cut school librarians, they should ask: Will my child graduate with a 21st-century resume, or a 19th-century transcript? ... As the information landscape becomes ever more complex, why does a school district want to abandon its professional guides to it? — Mark Moran

My knowledge of computers begins and ends with hit power switch, magic box comes on. — Claudia Gray

Remain dignified, dress well, be good to other people and you'll be fine. — Manolo Blahnik

Don't worry, I'll calm down by tonight when we go out. Provided you keep your clothes on all day and manage not to commit any felonies."
Praline mumbled a promise to do his best, though even he worried that it might not be possible. — Marshall Thornton

The idea behind the meta-induction is that all of our theories are fundamentally provisional and quite possibly wrong, if we can add that idea to our cognitive toolkit, we will be better able to listen with curiosity and empathy to those whose theories contradict our own. We will be better able to pay attention to counterevidence - those anomalous bits of data that make our picture of the world a little weirder, more mysterious, less clean, less done. And we will be able to hold our own beliefs a bit more humbly, in the knowledge that better ideas are almost certainly on the way. — Kathryn Schulz

The day your drunk ass went on and on about how chocolate is better than sex, you had me hooked. — Harper Sloan