The wisdom of crowds works when the crowd is choosing the price of an ox, when there's a single numeric average. But if it's a design or something that matters, the decision is made by committee, and that's crap. You want people and groups who are able to think thoughts before they share.

There is no knowledge, no light, no wisdom that you are in possession of, but what you have received it from some source.

The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation.

Putting is like wisdom - partly a natural gift and partly the accumulation of experience.

I am a poor student sitting at the feet of giants, yearning for their wisdom and begging for lessons that might one day make me a complete artist, so that if all goes well, I may one day sit beside them.

Humility is the only true wisdom by which we prepare our minds for all the possible changes of life.

Of all our possessions, wisdom alone is imortal.

Wisdom is the knowledge of good and evil, not the strength to choose between the two.

I have sympathy for young people, for their growing pains, but I balk when these growing pains are pushed into the foreground, when you make these young people the only vehicles of life's wisdom.

I find that to be a fool as to worldly wisdom, and to commit my cause to God, not fearing to offend men, who take offence at the simplicity of truth, is the only way to remain unmoved at the sentiments of others.