As an instrument for practical action, law is responsive to the wisdom of its time, which may be wrong, but it carries forward, sometimes in opposition to this wisdom or passion, a memory of received values.
Category: wisdom
I think in conventional magazine wisdom, you need to have a redesign every decade or so.
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.
If you believe the doctors, nothing is wholesome if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent if you believe the military, nothing is safe.
The perceived wisdom is that people do not go in large numbers to black-and-white movies anymore – which is a great shame, but I’d love to make a black-and-white movie one day.
The final wisdom of life requires not the annulment of incongruity but the achievement of serenity within and above it.
As I visited the various neighborhoods in the campaign, I learned fast that it’s a mistake to think that all of the wisdom and possible solutions to our problems are available only in this building.
The wisdom of the wise is an uncommon degree of common sense.
The wisdom of man never yet contrived a system of taxation that would operate with perfect equality.
Beauty, the eternal Spouse of the Wisdom of God and Angel of his Presence thru’ all creation.