Wisdom quotes

He who stands for nothing will fall for anything.
Alexander Hamilton

The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.
John Kenneth Galbraith

My weakness has always been to prefer the large intention of an unskillful artist to the trivial
intention of an accomplished one: in other words, I am more interested in the high ideas of a
feeble executant than in the high execution of a feeble thinker.
Thomas Hardy

Read books, listen to tapes, attend seminars - they are decades of wisdom reduced to
invaluable hours.
Mark Victor Hansen

Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred to talk.
Doug Larson