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Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Books should to one of these fours ends conduce, for wisdom, piety, delight, or use. -- John Denham
Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use. -- Thomas J. Watson
When you're used to being prepared to reject conventional wisdom, it leaves you open to learn more. -- Mayim Bialik
It used to be, it is accepted scientific wisdom the Earth is flat, and this heretic named Galileo was branded a denier. -- Ted Cruz
I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be. -- Thomas Jefferson
My past is my wisdom to use today... my future is my wisdom yet to experience. Be in the present because that is where life resides. -- Gene Oliver
Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them in their mediocrity. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
You can only make sense of the online world by going offline and by getting the wisdom and emotional clarity to know how to make the best use of the Internet. -- Pico Iyer
The model a lot of companies use is a very pyramidal model which sort of designates that all creativity, all wisdom flows from the top. We think that's the absolute wrong model. -- Richard Hayne
What makes Superman a hero is not that he has power, but that he has the wisdom and the maturity to use the power wisely. From an acting point of view, that's how I approached the part. -- Christopher Reeve
Protection, as we use the word in Buddhism, is actually wisdom, it's insight. Protection is seeing and knowing deeply that all things in our experience arise due to causes, due to conditions coming together in a certain way. -- Sharon Salzberg
Sometimes it might seem like I'm using my songs to give other people pointers. But mainly, they're for me, just little notes to myself that I collected, and the wisdom that I've read. I give myself a lot of advice. -- Seinabo Sey
History is filled with tragic examples of wars that result from diplomatic impasse. Whether in our local communities or in international relations, the skillful use of our communicative capacities to negotiate and resolve differences is the first evidence of human wisdom. -- Daisaku Ikeda
As a youngster, I used to try to pick up any bits of wisdom about the guitar I could. It's not like now where you have books and books about every aspect of anything. Any little pearl of wisdom was welcome back then. -- Johnny Marr
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 doing; it's not just wisdom or guesswork. And if we can predict, then we can engineer the future. -- Bruce Bueno de Mesquita
Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom. -- Charles Spurgeon
I was born in London, and went to school in Scotland - I used to be dead tired when I got home at night. -- Norman Wisdom
My father used to be away for months at a time, and he'd never leave any money for food, so my brother and I had to go out and nick it. -- Norman Wisdom
I used to first go on to entertain an audience. But now I go, and this is really true - I go on to have fun with a crowd of my chums. -- Norman Wisdom
Refusing dominance over others by using money is a clear sign of wisdom. -- Eraldo Banovac
When people say "If I only knew then what I know now" makes me wonder why they aren't using that wisdom now. -- Rob Liano
The unconscious mind is way bigger than the conscious mind. Using tools to access its wisdom and self-organizing features is powerful medicine. -- Kelly Carlin-McCall
We're achieving better marbling and better flavor with old world wisdom that's been passed down for generations but we're still using technology. -- Dan Barber
I suppose that people, using themselves and each other so much by words, are at least consistent in attributing wisdom to a still tongue... -- William Faulkner

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