"She hoped to be wise and reasonable in time; but alas! Alas! She must confess to herself that she was not wise yet."

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Jane Austen

#Wise Quotes #Being Wise Quotes

“The future will be less predictable, forecast rises will shrink, company lifetimes will shrink, new entrants will proliferate and itâ€™s going to just get more unpredictable. If you thought financial crises came and went, just count on them â€“ another economic collapse, itâ€™s almost going to be like not news any more. But for startups this is great, because itâ€™s a perpetual driver of disruption.”
“To be a star, you must walk your own path, shine your own light and not be afraid of the darkness, that's when a star shines the brightest.”
“Babies are like the smallest, drunkest people you know.”
“The only solid piece of scientific truth about which I feel totally confident is that we are profoundly ignorant about nature... It is this sudden confrontation with the depth and scope of ignorance that represents the most significant contribution of twentieth-century science to the human intellect.”
“I am ashamed of my nation.”
“I guarantee you that two directors that are any good can take the same story, change the name of the characters, change the name of the town, and make an entirely different picture.”

Source : "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.
“As one reads mathematics, one needs to have an active mind, asking questions, forming mental connections between the current topic and other ideas from other contexts, so as to develop a sense of the structure, not just familiarity with a particular tour through the structure.”

Source : William P. Thurston (2014). “Three-Dimensional Geometry and Topology, Volume 1”, p.9, Princeton University Press
“A lot of people on Capitol Hill don't want to talk to me.”

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