Influential people are never satisfied with the status quo. They're the ones who constantly ask, 'What if?' and 'Why not?' They're not afraid to challenge conventional wisdom, and they don't disrupt things for the sake of being disruptive; they do it to make things better.
— Travis Bradberry
I don't have the strength or wisdom to get through a single day without guidance and grace from God.
— Tony Dungy
Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.
— Tom Wilson
There's a conventional wisdom that says that strategic thinking is much more important than relationship building, which doesn't seem to be nearly as highly valued as it should be, based on what some of the leaders that I've spoken with have said to me.
— Tom Rath
Evil can be a teacher, if you look at the wisdom of its negative power.
— Tom Brown, Jr.
I'm not wise, but the beginning of wisdom is there; it's like relaxing into - and an acceptance of - things.
— Tina Turner
Nothing energizes me more than to burrow myself under a pile of received wisdom and emerge triumphant with the truth.
— Timothy Noah
Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
— Thornton Wilder
In regard of the rich grace and wisdom of his love toward his people; for who sees not, but that it is a curse to be unready as these foolish virgins, who were therefore shut out.
— Thomas Shepard
War involves in its progress such a train of unforeseen circumstances that no human wisdom can calculate the end; it has but one thing certain, and that is to increase taxes.
— Thomas Paine
So confident am I in the intentions, as well as wisdom, of the government, that I shall always be satisfied that what is not done, either cannot, or ought not to be done.
— Thomas Jefferson
Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use.
— Thomas J. Watson
It is not who is right, but what is right, that is of importance.
— Thomas Huxley
I don't believe in a golden mean; I don't believe you find policy wisdom between two polar points. I don't dismiss that possibility, but I look at the platform that's so ideologically based, that's so dismissive of facts, of evidence, of science, and it's frankly hard to take seriously.
— Thomas E. Mann
I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
— Thomas Carlyle
Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.
— Thomas A. Edison
We humans have lost the wisdom of genuinely resting and relaxing. We worry too much. We don't allow our bodies to heal, and we don't allow our minds and hearts to heal.
— Thich Nhat Hanh
The day of fortune is like a harvest day, We must be busy when the corn is ripe.
— Torquato Tasso
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.
— Tony Campolo
Conservatives have welcomed Trump's attacks on the establishment, have cheered his boldness, and have applauded his courage. He has taken on hitherto taboo issues like immigration enforcement and has demonstrated the hollowness of what passes for conventional wisdom.
— Tom Tancredo
Community organizing is all about building grassroots support. It's about identifying the people around you with whom you can create a common, passionate cause. And it's about ignoring the conventional wisdom of company politics and instead playing the game by very different rules.
— Tom Peters
We must work toward cyber doctrine that reflects the wisdom of free markets, private competition, and the important but limited role of government in establishing and enforcing the rule of law, honoring the rights of personal property, the benefits of free and fair trade, and the fundamental principles of liberty.
— Tom Bossert
I think in conventional magazine wisdom, you need to have a redesign every decade or so.
— Timothy White
If we talk about 'Groundhog Day' as a humanistic text - we only have one life, and there's no punishment or reward afterwards - then the wisdom is, just be kind because that will make you happy and the people around you happy.
— Tim Minchin
My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate.
Every indication of wisdom, taken from the effect, is equally an indication of power to execute what wisdom planned.
— Thomas Reid
A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right.
I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.
In science, as in art, and, as I believe, in every other sphere of human activity, there may be wisdom in a multitude of counsellors, but it is only in one or two of them.
It is not wisdom but Authority that makes a law.
— Thomas Hobbes
This age thinks better of a gilded fool Than of a threadbare saint in wisdom's school.
— Thomas Dekker
Few of the many wise apothegms which have been uttered have prevented a single foolish action.
— Thomas Babington Macaulay
To embrace the whole world in friendship is wisdom. This wisdom is not changeable like the flowers that bloom and fade.
— Thiruvalluvar
Conventional wisdom tells us to avoid taking unalterable action while at a low point in life. I have never been conventional.
— Therese Fowler
We need a president with experience and the wisdom and the grit to stand up to bullies who tell women that they should be punished for making their own decisions.
— Tony Goldwyn
You should never ask a horse or an actor to do something they cannot do. Wisdom will teach you to find out what they can do and then make it easy for them.
— Tommy Lee Jones
Wit and playfulness represent a desperately serious transcendence of evil. Humor is both a form of wisdom and a means of survival.
— Tom Robbins
Repeat anything often enough and it will start to become you.
— Tom Hopkins
Some folks are wise and some are otherwise.
— Tobias Smollett
Success is a wonderful thing, but it tends not to be the sort of experience that we learn from. We enjoy it; perhaps we even deserve it. But we don't acquire wisdom from it.
The philosophical point is that our happiness and wellbeing is not based on incomes rising. This is not just the wisdom of sages but of ordinary people. Prosperity is more social and psychological: it's about identification, affiliation, participation in society and a sense of purpose.
— Tim Jackson
To think the world therefore a general Bedlam, or place of madmen, and oneself a physician, is the most necessary point of present wisdom: an important imagination, and the way to happiness.
— Thomas Traherne
And, if we have any evidence that the wisdom which formed the plan is in the man, we have the very same evidence, that the power which executed it is in him also.
Wisdom I know is social. She seeks her fellows. But Beauty is jealous, and illy bears the presence of a rival.
Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.
The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all other woes of mankind, is wisdom. Teach a man to read and write, and you have put into his hands the great keys of the wisdom box. But it is quite another thing to open the box.
An ounce of cheerfulness is worth a pound of sadness to serve God with.
— Thomas Fuller
In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom and unwisdom; we have to say, Like People like Government.
The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.
If you have the insight of non-self, if you have the insight of impermanence, you should make that insight into a concentration that you keep alive throughout the day. Then what you say, what you think, and what you do will then be in the light of that wisdom and you will avoid making mistakes and creating suffering.
