Wisdom Quotes
A boy is supremely confident of his own power, and dislikes being treated as a child.
Where is there a boy to whom the call of the wild and the open road does not appeal?
You can display no greater wisdom than by resisting proposals for needless legislation. It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones.
A boy can see the smoke rising from Sioux villages under the shadow of the Albert memorial.
Fun, fighting, and feeding! These are the three indispensable elements of the boy's world.
Holy places are dark places. It is life and strength, not knowledge and words, that we get in them. Holy wisdom is not clear and thin like water, but thick and dark like blood.
It should be the thing never to mention unfairness of judging when defeated in a contest.
When a boy finds someone who takes an interest in him, he responds and follows.
It is important to arrange games and competition so that all Scouts of the troop take part.
Above all, we must abolish hope in the heart of man. A calm despair, without angry convulsions, without reproaches to Heaven, is the essence of wisdom.
You need diplomacy and not slogans. This is the place for wisdom, the place for seeking windows that will take you to the objective.
The Scoutmaster must be alert to check badge hunting as compared to badge earning.
It is only when you know a boy's environment that you can know what influences to bring to bear.
Perhaps a child who is fussed over gets a feeling of destiny; he thinks he is the world for something important, and it gives him drive and confidence.
The two chief things that give a man reputation in counsel, are the opinion of his honesty, and the opinion of his wisdom; the authority of those two will persuade.
He who has a true idea, knows at that same time that he has a true idea, nor can he doubt concerning the truth of the thing.
Wisdom - meaning judgment acting on experience, common sense, available knowledge, and a decent appreciation of probability.
It is now conventional wisdom that Americans do not care why we went to war in Iraq, that it is enough that the world is better off without Saddam Hussein.
MULTITUDE, n. A crowd; the source of political wisdom and virtue. In a republic, the object of the statesman's adoration.
Conventional wisdom notwithstanding, there is no reason either in football or in poetry why the two should not meet in a man's life if he has the weight and cares about the words.
The most important lesson of New Labour is this: Every time we made progress we did it by challenging the conventional wisdom.
Were we more careful to obey the part of the word of wisdom that deals with the "do's" it might be easier to obey the "don'ts"
It may be assumed as an axiom that Providence has never gifted any political party with all of political wisdom or blinded it with all of political folly.
Human wisdom is the aggregate of all human experience, constantly accumulating, and selecting, and re-organizing its own materials.
We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it - and stop there.
The fear of death is indeed the pretence of wisdom, and not real wisdom, being the appearance of knowing the unknown.
Conventional wisdom is not to put all of your eggs in one basket. 80/20 wisdom is to choose a basket carefully, load all your eggs into it, and then watch it like a hawk.