Best Collective Wisdom Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“There are two ways of confronting the country's problems.One is through a management style based on adventurism, instability, play-acting, exaggerations, wrongdoing, being secretive, self-importance, superficiality and ignoring the law. The second way is based on realism, respect, openness, collective wisdom and avoiding extremism.”

“As a man of the Congress, let me reaffirm my conviction that the collective wisdom of our two great legislative bodies while not infallible will in the end serve the people faithfully and very, very well.”

People Men Wells Two Ends Body Let Me Congress Conviction Collectives Infallible Collective Wisdom

Author:Gerald R. Ford

“The secret of literature, which conventional people don't guess, is that writers are forever looking for the surprising revelation - not for reinforcement of collective wisdom.”

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Author:Carol Bly

“The anchor of all my dreams is the collective wisdom of mankind as a whole.”

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Book:Conversations With Myself

Source: Conversations With Myself

“Ideas that are at odds with the inherited collective wisdom of antiquity are always, on their face suspect.”

Ideas War Faces Collectives Suspects Odds Antiquity Collective Wisdom

Author:Andrew Thomas

“Pope Benedict XVI assumes leadership at a critical time in which the world's collective wisdom and leadership including that of the religious community is most important to face up to challenges of deepening poverty and under-development afflicting many people of the world.”

People World Important Faces Community Challenges Religious Poverty Development Assuming Including Critical Collectives Pope Religious Community Collective Wisdom Benedict Xvi Pope Benedict

Author:Thabo Mbeki

“Nothing is more senseless than to base so many expectations on the state, that is, to assume the existence of collective wisdom and foresight after taking for granted the existence of individual imbecility and improvidence.”

States Individual Existence Expectations Assuming Granted Collectives Foresight Imbecility Collective Wisdom

Author:Frederic Bastiat

“We must nurture tolerance, collective wisdom, and democracy.”

Democracy Tolerance Collectives Nurture Collective Wisdom

Author:Nelson Mandela

“I think small groups have more collective wisdom than an individual.”

Thinking Individual Groups Collectives Small Groups Collective Wisdom

Author:Lewis Schiff

“I also believe that at a critical point (more than six people?), that collective wisdom turns into group think.”

People Thinking Believe Turns Groups Six Critical Collectives Collective Wisdom

Author:Lewis Schiff

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

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Author:H. L. Mencken

“Collective wisdom, alas, is no adequate substitute for the intelligence of individuals. Individuals who opposed received opinions have been the source of all progress, both moral and intellectual. They have been unpopular, as was natural.”

Has Beens Individual Natural Moral Opinion Progress Source Intellectual Collectives Substitutes Alas Adequate Collective Wisdom

Book:Why I am not a Christian, and other essays on religion and related subjects

Source: Why I am not a Christian, and other essays on religion and related subjects

“What if Barack Obama established a Presidential Advisory Committee that would meet once every couple of months, bringing together the former presidents for a conference in order to seek their collective wisdom? There is a wealth of experience in former presidents that generally goes untapped.”

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Author:Tony Campolo

“I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.”

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Author:Thomas Carlyle

“Until society can be reclaimed by an undivided humanity that will use its collective wisdom, cultural achievements, technological innovations, scientific knowledge, and innate creativity for its own benefit and for that of the natural world, all ecological problems will have their roots in social problems.”

Source: The Murray Bookchin Reader

“If small groups are included in the decision-making process, then they should be allowed to make decisions. If an organization sets up teams and then uses them for purely advisory purposes, it loses the true advantage that a team has: namely, collective wisdom.”

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Book:The Wisdom of Crowds

Source: The Wisdom of Crowds

“The fact that cognitive diversity matters does not mean that if you assemble a group of diverse but thoroughly uninformed people, their collective wisdom will be smarter than an expert's. But if you can assemble a diverse group of people who possess varying degrees of knowledge and insight, you're better off entrusting it with major decisions rather than leaving them in the hands of one or two people, no matter how smart those people are.”

Source: The Wisdom of Crowds

“Libraries have always been humanities' way of preserving its collective wisdom”

Way Humanity Wise Library Collectives Collective Wisdom

Author:Umberto Eco

“Stories are the collective wisdom of everyone who has ever lived. Your job as a storyteller is not simply to entertain. Nor is it to be noticed for the way you turn a phrase. You have a very important job--one of the most important. Your job is to let people know that everyone shares their feelings--and that these feelings bind us. Your job is a healing art, and like all healers, you have a responsibility. Let people know they are not alone. You must make people understand that we are all the same.”

People Knows Way Art Important Stories Feelings Jobs Turns Healing Responsibility Share Phrases Collectives Storyteller Not Alone Healer Important Jobs Collective Wisdom

Author:Brian McDonald

“Listen carefully to what country people call mother wit. In those homely sayings are couched the collective wisdom of generations.”

People Country Mother Generations Motherhood Wit Collectives Homely Collective Wisdom Mother Wit

Author:Maya Angelou

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