Wisdom Quotes

"The whole of this rather painful discussion can be summed up in this: the claim that 'machines cannot think' is nonsense."

"We should not demand of a machine that it should understand beauty any more than we demand this of a tree."

"We may now consider objections to the proposed question 'Can machines think?' in preference to objections to the original wording."

"The brains of people are more interesting than the looks, I think."

"Life teaches you lessons whether you want them or not."

"Life teaches you what truly matters."

"I've learned to trust my instincts."

"Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first."

"Many people confuse bad management with destiny."

"We are all instruments endowed with certain powers; we use these powers without thinking about how we do it."

"The greatest minds are not those who think the fastest, but those who think the deepest."

"The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function."

"The path to wisdom is paved with humility. The moment you think you know everything, you stop learning."

"A man's character is his destiny."

"I am not ashamed of my past experience, but rather proud of the opportunity it afforded me to learn something from it."

"I would say greed is the worst human tendency."

"Poverty of the mind is worse than poverty of the pocketbook."

"We have become so accustomed to miracles that we no longer regard them as such."

"Life has taught me to think, but much more often to think wrong."

"It is a wholesome and necessary thing for us to turn again to the earth and in the contemplation of her beauties to know of wonder and humility."

"Wonder and humility are attitudes that have become much too rare in our modern world of specialists who have lost all sense of proportion."

"It is ironic that the road to true enlightenment is often blocked by those who claim to be guardians of knowledge."

"There is one quality which must be present in our modern world if we are to survive, and that is wisdom."

"The 'experts' often fail to see what lies before their eyes because they are blinded by their specializations."

"We see only what we look at. To look is an act of choice."

"Good science is determined by the asking of good questions."

"The plant is speaking to those who can hear it."

"I have always believed in the power of careful thinking."

"Understanding begins with humility before nature."

"I learned that extraordinary discoveries often come from ordinary observations."