Quotes about "Wisdom & Knowledge"

A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices. ”

Man can alter his life by altering his thinking. ”

Hillary had never run for office before, but she decided to give it a try. She began her campaign the way she always does new things, by listening and and learning. And after a tough battle, New York elected her to the seat once held by another outsider, Robert Kennedy. ”

In praising science, it does not follow that we must adopt the very poor philosophies which scientific men have constructed. In philosophy they have much more to learn than to teach. ”

The people who work in intelligence work are more conscious, more apt to be attentive. ”

Learning is its own exceeding great reward. ”

To get others to come into our ways of thinking, we must go over to theirs; and it is necessary to follow, in order to lead. ”

I don't deny that there are problems in the intelligence world, but I would argue that in the UK we try to uphold the highest standards in the world. ”

While I was still a boy, I came to the conclusion that there were three grades of thinking; and since I was later to claim thinking as my hobby, I came to an even stranger conclusion - namely, that I myself could not think at all. ”

Superior virtue must be the fruit of superior intelligence. ”