“Intelligence alone does not get us where we need to go or even necessarily where we want to go. For that, the human creature must exercise harder-won capacities of wisdom, and wise action.” WayWantNeedsHumansDoeWisdomActionWiseExerciseCreaturesCapacityHarderMethodIntelligenceIntellect Author:Krista Tippett
“Since the fabric of the universe is most perfect and the work of a most wise Creator, nothing at all takes place in the universe in which some rule of maximum or minimum does not appear ... there is absolutely no doubt that every affect in the universe can be explained satisfactorily from final causes, by the aid of the method of maxima and minima, as it can be from the effective causes themselves ... Of course, when the effective causes are too obscure, but the final causes are readily ascertained, the problem is commonly solved by the indirect method.” DoeProblemUniverseCoursesCausesPerfectDoubtWiseMethodFinalsCreatorAidsNo DoubtFabricMinimumObscureMaximumIndirectEulerMost Wise Author:Leonhard Euler
“Nature herself in times of great poverty or bad climatic conditions, as well as poor harvest, intervenes to restrict the increase of population of certain countries or races; this, to be sure, by a method as wise as it is ruthless.” WellsCountryCertainPoorRacePovertyWiseConditionsIncreaseMethodPopulationHarvestRuthless Author:Thomas Malthus
“The true historian, therefore, seeking to compose a true picture of the thing acted, must collect facts and combine facts. Methods will differ, styles will differ. Nobody ever does anything like anybody else; but the end in view is generally the same, and the historian's end is truthful narration. Maxims he will have, if he is wise, never a one; and as for a moral, if he tell his story well, it will need none; if he tell it ill, it will deserve none.” IfsNeedsWellsDoeEndsFactsStoriesViewsMoralWiseStyleDeserveMethodIllSeekingHistorianTruthfulMaximsNarration Book:The collected essays & addresses of the Rt. Hon. Augustine Birrell, 1880-1920 Source: The collected essays & addresses of the Rt. Hon. Augustine Birrell, 1880-1920
“I think it is a wise course for laborers to unite to defend their interests.... I think the employer who declines to deal with organized labor and to recognize it as a proper element in the settlement of wage controversies is behind the times.... Of course, when organized labor permits itself to sympathize with violent methods or undue duress, it is not entitled to our sympathy.” ThinkingCoursesInterestDealsBehindsWiseElementsLaborMethodViolentOrganizedPermitDeclineEntitledControversyEmployersSettlementLaborersOrganized LaborDuress Author:William Howard Taft
“"The myths," says Horace in his Ars Poetica, "have been invented by wise men to strengthen the laws and teach moral truths." While Horace endeavored to make clear the very spirit and essence of the ancient myths, Euhemerus pretended, on the contrary, that "myths were the legendary history of kings and heroes, transformed into gods by the admiration of the nations." It is the latter method which was inferentially followed by Christians when they agreed upon the acceptation of euhemerized patriarchs, and mistook them for men who had really lived.” MenHas BeensChristianLawSpiritNationsMoralTeachClearWiseKingsHeroEssenceMethodAncientMythContraryLatterAdmirationTransformedLegendary Author:H. P. Blavatsky
“Man is an Animal, formidable both from his Passions and his Reason; his Passions often urging him to great Evils, and his Reason furnishing Means to achieve them. To train this Animal, and make him amenable to Order; to inure him to a Sense of Justice and Virtue, to withhold him from ill Courses by Fear, and encourage him in his Duty by Hopes; in short, to fashion and model him for Society, hath been the Aim of civil and religious Institutions; and, in all Times, the Endeavour of good and wise Men. The aptest Method for attaining this End, hath been always judged a proper Education.” MenMeanEndsReasonOrderPassionCoursesEvilReligiousJusticeAnimalEducationVirtueWiseAchieveFashionDutyModelsAimMethodInstitutionsTrainIllAll TimeEndeavorJudgedFormidableAmenable Author:George Berkeley
“There isn't any formula or method. You learn to love by loving - by paying attention and doing what one thereby discovers has to be done.” LoveDoneWisdomAttentionWiseMethodPay AttentionFormulasCorny Author:Aldous Huxley
“My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then to say it with the utmost levity.” WiseTroubleMethodRight ThingPublic SpeakingLevityRight Thing To Say Author:George Bernard Shaw
“The mind always functions in an eccentric way, the mind is always an idiot. The really intelligent person has no mind. Intelligence arises out of no-mind, idiocy out of the mind. Mind is idiotic, no-mind is wise. No-mind is wisdom, intelligence. Mind depends on knowledge, on methods, on money, on experience, on this and that. Mind always needs props, it needs supports, it cannot exist on its own. On its own, it flops.” WayNeedsMindPersonsSupportWiseDependsFunctionIntelligentMethodIntelligenceAriseIdiotEccentricPropsIdioticIdiocyIntelligent Person Author:Rajneesh
“By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.” FirstsMayWisdomThreeAttitudeKnowledgeLearningWiseCrazyWise WordsWords Of WisdomReflectionYogaExperienceThirdsMethodIntelligenceBitternessLife ExperienceImitationIntrospectionReflectingSecond ChanceSelf ReflectionBeing WiseWisestLearning From MistakesWise Man Once SaidLearning ExperienceLive And LearnKnowledge WisdomLifelong LearnerSuperior ManLife LearningKnowledge And WisdomConfucianismYou Live And You LearnChinese PhilosophyKnowledge And ExperienceReal KnowledgeWise WisdomChinese PhilosopherWisdom And ExperienceAge WisdomGreatest WisdomKnowledge ExperienceInspirational WisdomExperience And LearningMost WiseWisdom ExperienceMethods Of TeachingYou Live You LearnOld WisdomImitation Of LifeCritical ReflectionReflective Thinking Author:Confucius
“My message to the serious programmer is this: spend a part of your working day examining and refining your own methods. Even though programmers are always struggling to meet some future or past deadline, methodological abstraction is a wise long term investment.” LongPastTermStruggleWiseSeriousMessagesMethodInvestmentLong TermAbstractionProgrammersDeadlineExaminingRefining Author:Robert W. Floyd
“Stain not the glory of your worthy ancestors, but like them resolve never to part with your birthright; be wise in your deliberations, and determined in your exertions for the preservation of your liberties. Fllow not the dictates of passion, but enlist yourselves under the sacred banner of reason; use every method in your power to secure your rights.” ReasonUsePassionLibertyWiseRightsGloryMethodSacredWorthyDeterminedSecureResolvePatrioticAncestorPreservationBeing WiseStainsBannerBirthrightExertionDeliberation Author:Joseph Warren