Urjit Patel Quotes

An owl is traditionally a symbol of wisdom, so we are neither doves nor hawks but owls, and we are vigilant when others are resting.

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• Patience is the companion of wisdom.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Wisdom
  • Patience
  • Companion

• Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Wisdom
  • Democracy
  • Ignorance

• The sweetest of all sounds is praise.

  

  Xenophon
  • Wisdom
  • Praise
  • Sounds

• The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Wisdom
  • Journey
  • Step

• Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Nature
  • Wisdom
  • Patience

• It used to be, it is accepted scientific wisdom the Earth is flat, and this heretic named Galileo was branded a denier.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Earth
  • Wisdom
  • Used

• Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Great
  • Together
  • Wisdom

• Now all the knowledge and wisdom that is in creatures, whether angels or men, is nothing else but a participation of that one eternal, immutable and increased wisdom of God.

  

  Ralph Cudworth
  • God
  • Men
  • Knowledge

• Sometimes in international politics, the better part of wisdom is to defer dangers rather than try to eliminate them altogether instantly.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Wisdom
  • Politics
  • Better

• The best thing that happens to us is when a great company gets into temporary trouble... We want to buy them when they're on the operating table. 'Homespun Wisdom from the 'Oracle of Omaha'' Businessweek (5 July 1999)

  

  Warren Buffett
  • Great
  • Wisdom

• Older people are most beautiful when they have what is lacking in the young: poise, erudition, wisdom, phronesis, and this post-heroic absence of agitation.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • People
  • Beautiful
  • Wisdom

• The disease having been caused by allowing cleverness to displace wisdom, no amount of clever research is likely to produce a cure.

  

  E. F. Schumacher
  • Wisdom
  • Clever

• With them the seed of Wisdom did I sow, And with mine own hand wrought to make it grow; And this was all the Harvest that I reap'd - 'I came like Water, and like Wind I go'.

  

  Omar Khayyam
  • Hand
  • Water
  • Wisdom

• Pussy said to the Owl, 'You elegant fowl!How charmingly sweet you sing!O let us be married! too long we have tarried:But what shall we do for a ring?'

  

  Edward Lear
  • Long
  • Sweet
  • Owl

• The sophist is concerned with wisdom, not for its own sake, not because he hates the lie in the soul more than anything else, but for the sake of the honor or the prestige that attends wisdom.

  

  Leo Strauss
  • Soul
  • Wisdom
  • Honor

• Through consciousness, our minds have the power to change our planet and ourselves. It is time we heed the wisdom of the ancient indigenous people and channel our consciousness and spirit to tend the garden and not destroy it.

  

  Bruce Lipton
  • People
  • Time
  • Power

• Of all the many leaders I have met in the course of my life, none made a deeper impression on me than Nelson Mandela. His courage, compassion, humility and wisdom were without parallel on the world stage, and he himself was an enduring source of inspiration.

  

  Klaus Schwab
  • Life
  • World
  • Wisdom

• Holy wisdom confounds Satan and all his wickednesses.

  

  Francis of Assisi
  • Wisdom
  • Satan

• There is often, in the affairs of government, more efficiency and wisdom in non-action than in action.

  

  John C. Calhoun
  • Action
  • Wisdom

• I have not lost my faith; and this I must attribute more to a miracle than to my own wisdom; more to Divine Providence than to my own virtue. Steadfastly, in fact from my earliest childhood, I have made this my prayer, "Lord God... grant me long life, and wisdom, and health of mind and body."

  

  Gerolamo Cardano
  • Faith
  • Wisdom
  • Virtue

• What's old collapses, times change,And new life blossoms in the ruins.

  

  Friedrich Schiller
  • Life

• For some people, what really matters to them is sleep.

  

  Marissa Mayer
  • People
  • Sleep

• It's (Phil Niekro's knuckleball) like watching Mario Andretti park a car.

  

  Ralph Kiner
  • Car
  • Park
  • Mario Andretti

• An owl is traditionally a symbol of wisdom, so we are neither doves nor hawks but owls, and we are vigilant when others are resting.

  

  Urjit Patel
  • Wisdom
  • Owl
  • Symbol