#wise

Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

#enough #good #heads #hearts #intoxicate

Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

#ask #best #even #examinations #fool

I can't comment on any outside perception. I'm happy to come out and talk about movies that I've worked on in a setting like this. Otherwise, I have my own life that I live which is very different and private. ↗

— Jennifer Connelly

#any #come #comment #different #happy

Everything I have done or attempted to do for Scotland has always been for her benefit, never my own and I defy anyone to prove otherwise. ↗

— Sean Connery

#anyone #attempted #been #benefit #defy

The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life. ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

#changes #come #conscience #demands #form

Sharon went on to play classical but we actually went into totally different instruments which was lucky for the band because otherwise we'd all be playing the same thing!! ↗

— Caroline Corr

#band #because #classical #different #instruments

Recently I heard a 'wise guy' story that I had a party at my home for twenty-five men. It's an interesting story, but I don't know twenty-five men I'd want to invite ta a party. ↗

— Joan Crawford

#had #heard #home #i #interesting

Zeal is fit for wise men, but flourishes chiefly among fools. ↗

— John Tillotson

#chiefly #fit #flourishes #fools #men

Every man is wise when attacked by a mad dog; fewer when pursued by a mad woman; only the wisest survive when attacked by a mad notion. ↗

— Robertson Davies

#dog #every #every man #fewer #mad

Personally, I don't see old economics and behavioural economics as opposed. It is useful to assume people are rational as a good approximation to their long term behaviour, but it would be unwise not to think how in practice their behaviour may deviate from that simplifying assumption. ↗

— Evan Davis

#assume #assumption #behaviour #behavioural #deviate