"Wisdom is considered a sign of weakness by the powerful because a wise man can lead without power but only a powerful man can lead without wisdom."

-- Mark B. Cohen

#Wise Quotes #Powerful Quotes #Knowledge Quotes

“There is no mind so weak and powerless as not to have its inclinations, and none so guarded as to be without its prepossessions.”
“We should aim for our children to be good people, and to live ethical lives that manifest concern for others as well as for themselves.”
“My dads music was a great inspiration to me.”
“If I'd gone straight to the NBA, I don't think I would have been ready as a player or a person.”
“There was, it is said, a criminal in Italy who was suffered to make his choice between Guicciardini and the galleys. He chose the history. But the war of Pisa was too much for him; he changed his mind, and went to the oars.”
“Theyâ€™re always like, 'Thatâ€™s not what happened in the books, so the showâ€™s really bad now.' But really, they just feel insecure because theyâ€™re used to knowing whatâ€™s coming next.”
“We have not wings we cannot soar; but, we have feet to scale and climb, by slow degrees, by more and more, the cloudy summits of our time.”
“Neither you nor I nor anybody else knows what makes a mathematician tick. It is not a question of cleverness. I know many mathematicians who are far abler than I am, but they have not been so lucky. An illustration may be given by considering two miners. One may be an expert geologist, but he does not find the golden nuggets that the ignorant miner does.”

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