Joshua Foer
Related PLATO Man has only wisdumb to gain knowledge but God alone has wisdom, for he possesses all knowledge past... C.R. LORD Innovations are of immense importance to Henkel, because they are the basis of our future business s... DR. WOLFGANG GAWRISCH DUANE G. CAREY JOHN CARPENTER When you look at the external reality, you may assume you know everything, but when you close your e... ROSHAN SHARMA The thing that we possess, that machines don't, is the ability to exhibit wisdom. HERBIE HANCOCK I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES PAUL BLOOM AMERICAN INDIAN PROVERB KILROY J. OLDSTER Our external experiences are what make us different. Our internal systems are what make us the same. RODNEY LOVELL The argument most commonly made in the filibuster's favor is crudely partisan: 'Our side may... TIMOTHY NOAH In our case, we monitor both our internal and external traffic, and found that if we installed it on... RICH ACKERMANN Knowledge is not the same as wisdom. You can know all the facts and still not be able to act wisely.... DAN SMITH Well, one thing's very clear, that terrorism isn't just a threat which is external to Wester... PAULINE NEVILLE-JONES It is sound judgment to hope that in the not too distant future we shall be competent to understand ... ARTHUR EDDINGTON DEE DEE MYERS ERALDO BANOVAC Unknowing, or agnosia, is not ignorance or absence of knowledge as ordinarily understood, but rather... PSEUDO-DIONYSIUS THE AREOPAGITE JOHN AGYEKUM KUFUOR LOIS LOWRY I think that we have a great opportunity to impart our wisdom and our knowledge and our experience t... VICTORIA OSTEEN BEN HOROWITZ B.J. NOVAK Each one chooses his or her path to come in contact with the external world. I chose to merge with t... LIU BOLIN FRIEDRICH AUGUST VON HAYEK Someday many years from nowEILEEN HEHL DEBASISH MRIDHA Life is not about changing the external circumstances, to please your internal world, rather life is... ROSHAN SHARMA We fully believed, so soon as we saw that woman's suffrage was right, every one would soon see t... ANTOINETTE BROWN BLACKWELL JANET JACKSON The fact that spin current is not conserved may be bad news, but the important thing is that we know... JOE ORENSTEIN To develop the human capital, we want our citizens to be fully equipped with knowledge, practice goo... ABDULLAH BADAWI To develop the human capital, we want our citizens to be fully equipped with knowledge, practice goo... ABDULLAH AHMAD BADAWI TONY ROBBINS SANTOSH KALWAR I think the future of this planet depends on humans, not technology, and we already have the knowled... GRAHAM HAWKES When we are meditating in a haunted graveyard, or even in our rooms, frightening external and intern... ZONGTRUL LOSANG TSöNDRU ADRIENNE RICH SHIV KHERA In North America, the greatest threat to the Jewish people is not the external force of antisemitism... MICHAEL STEINHARDT DANIEL KAHNEMAN MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. PETER THIEL T.F. HODGE Your future is guided by the knowledge gleaned from the past. JAIME CONTRERAS We're all the same. We all want the same thing in life. Everybody going around like ants and we ... ANDREA CORR Merrill is not going to merge with anyone in the near future. DIANE GLOSSMAN GRAHAM MOORE The value of things does not always lie in their prices; but in the memories they bring. Sometimes, ... FADI WILLIAM GHALI ABDELMESSIH ABHIJIT NASKAR R.C. SPROUL WALTER M. MILLER JR. GRAY SCOTT ELVIS MITCHELL AMEEN RIHANI Knowledge may be power, but wisdom is guidance. JEREMY CHEATWOOD LEO BUSCAGLIA WAYNE DYER "A modern day progressive is in fact very rigid. Progressives rarely change, they believe in the sam... MARCELLO MOTTOLA Sometimes the waters of our spirits are churned and murky, and it is difficult to tap the reservoirs... SUE PATTON THOELE DAMIEN HIRST LEO BUSCAGLIA LEO F. BUSCAGLIA MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. CRAIG GROESCHEL ADRIENNE RICH BARRY WHITE AMY GRANT BERTOLT BRECHT BERTOLT BRECHT PAUL VALERY CEOs resign when the internal dynamics of the company and the external dynamics of the company actua... URSULA BURNS FERDINAND MOUNT The future is bright as two great companies merge together. GARY GALL ELIF SHAFAK CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS BRENE BROWN THANDIE NEWTON LINDA HUNT I don't really believe that people can predict the future,' he admitted.ADRIAN TCHAIKOVSKY The cognitive science's challenge is to link our consensus reality to our internal reality, but phys... MAX TEGMARK Through our chanting we merge our personal consciousness momentarily with the infinite consciousness... VICTOR SHAMAS I don't know when I'll able to knock in the door of her mind. But I believe in my love, enthusiasm a... SANTONU KUMAR DHAR Fiction seeks to represent human experience as it is lived and as it reverberates in our hopes, fear... VARLEY O'CONNOR ABHIJIT NASKAR The Japanese have different words for love. To them, it's plain weird that we love spaghetti and... SAMANTHA HARVEY ZHANG ZHIDONG Whether we think of Disney's blonde beauty and her pumpkin carriage or Marissa Meyer's recen... MARIE RUTKOSKI True freedom is freedom from internal as well as external limitations. TONY SAMARA JIM HENSON You know, people understand fear and opportunity. It may look different, but it's really the sam... MAJORA CARTER What if love and reality are big things, so big that we can only ever see a tiny bit and we think we... LYSSA DANEHY DEHART The creation is a very internal process, and publishing the book is a very external process. It is n... ELLIOT ACKERMAN I love creating characters that people may or may have not ever seen before. But I enjoy the opportu... J. AUGUST RICHARDS TOM WATSON RICHARD DAWKINS Knowledge without the wisdom to use it is useless. However, that same wisdom is powerless without th... BRANDON CHRISTOPHER Forget the past and concentrate on the present moment.There is no need to evoke unpleasant memories ... DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA
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JOSHUA CHAMBERLAIN ANTHONY JOSHUA JOSHUA OPPENHEIMER ANTHONY JOSHUA JOSHUA SLOCUM Enough is as good as a feast. JOSHUA SYLVESTER ANTHONY JOSHUA ANTHONY JOSHUA JOSHUA OPPENHEIMER Without computers, in the 17th century, we could classify the entire animal kingdom... there was thi... JOSHUA COHEN JOSHUA BELL I do think that once you remove the limitations of the page, once you turn text transitive, meaning ... JOSHUA COHEN JOSHUA BELL JOSHUA BELL I used to practice cello while watching TV and films. I watched several complete TV series this way,... JOSHUA ROMAN Initially I was very drawn to the Tao Te Ching, the Taoist philosophy. It was helping me deal with t... JOSHUA WAITZKIN ANTHONY JOSHUA ANTHONY JOSHUA JOSHUA SLOCUM My cane is now of me. I want it by my side. And I always will, even if one strange day I no longer n... JOSHUA PRAGER They were like two inviolable spheres touching at a fine point in their curves, touching but failing... 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You get to see more o... JOSHUA REALE JOSHUA BELL I hate people saying anything stupid. I don't really suffer fools very well at all. When people ... JOSHUA JACKSON ANTHONY JOSHUA ANTHONY JOSHUA JOSHUA REYNOLDS In America, people focus on the end result; they focus on the star. JOSHUA WAITZKIN Rations were scarcely issued, and the men about preparing supper, when rumors that the enemy had bee... JOSHUA CHAMBERLAIN My officers and men understood wishes so well that this movement was executed under fire, the right ... JOSHUA CHAMBERLAIN JOSHUA REYNOLDS JOSHUA BELL If all they do is pick out a couple of MPs to slice and dice ... that is not going to be what is nee... JOSHUA DRATEL Video games spark the imagination, empower the mind, and take you to the place where you have always... JOSHUA CLARKE JOSHUA OPPENHEIMER JOSHUA OPPENHEIMER At the very core of my relationship to learning is the idea that we should be as organic as possible... 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JOSHUA CLARKE The thing I hate the most, is hate itself. JOSHUA CLARKE There is one problem with the entire concept of time. There is so little of it. JOSHUA CLARKE Without this, I'd be either in jail or dead. It is real motivating. JOSHUA YOUNG ANTHONY JOSHUA But we can hold our spirits and our bodies so pure and high, we may cherish such thoughts and such i... JOSHUA CHAMBERLAIN Every time I get an autograph, I feel like I'm taking home a little piece of that star. What dri... JOSHUA MORROW JOSHUA HARRIS It is forgivable to say nothing out of ignorance; it's inexcusable to remain silent once awareness d... JOSHUA FERRIS JOSHUA BELL JOSHUA HARRIS JOSHUA BELL JOSHUA HARRIS JOSHUA HARRIS JOSHUA HARRIS ANTHONY JOSHUA ANTHONY JOSHUA JOSHUA BELL The first thing I do when I read a part is see if I can identify emotionally with a character. If I ... JOSHUA LEONARD JOSHUA HARRIS
Someday, in the distant future, our grandchildren's grandchildren will develop a new equivalent of o... 
And, that's what I truly believe that we're doing when we're advancing scientific knowle... 
There are two different stories in horror: internal and external. In external horror films, the evil... 
Our best hope for the future is not to get people to think of all humanity as family - that's im... 
Seek wisdom, not knowledge. Knowledge is of the past, Wisdom is of the future. 
Imagination and recollection of cherished memories of the pastimes are closely related. We do not re... 
I look forward to a time, in the not so distant future, when we no longer look forward to 'first... 
What does the future look like? I don't know how to answer this question, but for the bettering of m... 
We are a blessed people and, with God s guidance, our smiles might even become laughter in the not t... 
And here in this room, I re-experience the memories again and again it is how wisdom comes and how w... 
If I'm in my position at a company, I may not have the knowledge of the C.E.O., I may not know w... 
...the difference between love and everything else is that it's infinite, it's built out of somethin... 
To act on the belief that we possess the knowledge and the power which enable us to shape the proces... 
If knowledge is a glass of water, then wisdom is the unlimited, infinite and not yet invented ocean. 
In complete darkness we are all the same, it is only our knowledge and wisdom that separates us, don... 
We are the only beings on the planet who lead such rich internal lives that it's not the events ... 
O holy Sunday, let your darkness not come along my way. Let her nurture internal and external world,... 
We might possess every technological resource... but if our language is inadequate, our vision remai... 
An uneducated thief may steal goods from the train but an educated one may steal the entire train. W... 
We think of our future as anticipated memories. 
Every man lives in two realms: the internal and the external. The internal is that realm of spiritua... 
The most successful businesses have an idea for the future that's very different from the presen... 
External beauty is certainly cool to admire, but when worshipped - it eclipses internal shine. 
Depression is internal. The upswings and downswings have pretty much nothing to do with what's g... 
Books may be the most valuable treasure of knowledge, but it is the human mind, that turns that know... 
God’s grace is not infinite. God is infinite, and God is gracious. We experience the grace of an i... 
But neither infinite power nor infinite wisdom could bestow godhood upon men. For that there would h... 
We are increasingly becoming cyborg-like beings. We are becoming literally what we create. Biology, ... 
When an actor commits himself to a role as fully as Russell Crowe does in the grandiose and silly &#... 
Experience is knowledge; but knowledge, when it is sought only as a material resource, is not always... 
There are two big forces at work, external and internal. We have very little control over external ... 
The truth is that you can only come to know God when you give up the past and the future in your min... 
I've been asked to do a retrospective since I was about 28 and I always thought that was a bit o... 
There are two big forces at work, external and internal. We have very little control over external f... 
There are two big forces at work, external and internal. We have very little control over external f... 
We may have all come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now. 
We may claim to believe in God, but we don't want to believe so much that it makes us different. 
We might hypothetically possess ourselves of every technological resource on the North American cont... 
I'll come to you with gifts of knowledge, wisdom and truth. 
I can look at the future with anticipation. And it's comforting to know that someday, as Christi... 
The aim of science is not to open the door to infinite wisdom,
but to set a limit to infinite error... 
The aim of science is not to open the door to infinite wisdom, but to set a limit to infinite error. 
To write regular verses destroys an infinite number of fine possibilities, but at the same time it s... 
I think it's a pity that in many people's minds constitutional reform and PR have come to me... 
The words that come out of our mouths do not vanish but are perpetually stored in infinite space, an... 
It's considered acceptable in our culture to approach perfect strangers, as often or not who may... 
Perfectionism is not the same thing as striving to be our best. Perfectionism is not about healthy a... 
We're all the same, and we all want the same thing. We all want to be secure. We all want food o... 
This sort of thing happens all the time external to our campus, but we want to make this as protecte... 
If the Chinese will not learn the true principles of government, all else will be useless. Knowledge... 
It's into the same bag as E.T. and Yoda, wherein you're trying to create something that peop... 
Someday I'll tell my grandkids I played in the same tournament as Tiger Woods, ... We are witnessing... 
It's a horrible idea that God, this paragon of wisdom and knowledge, power, couldn't think o... 
Many memory techniques involve creating unforgettable imagery, in your mind's eye. That's an... 
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If I read every comment on my YouTube videos, I'd go crazy with people that are saying negative ... 
You have to speak from a place where all is possible. When you speak from a place where there's ... 
All the gestures of children are graceful; the reign of distortion and unnatural attitudes commences... 
For me to have a cheeky little biscuit, it's not going to hurt. But I need to control those indu... 
I know if I don't look after myself, I will be talking to you in a couple of years' time mum... 
I think it's our obligation as filmmakers, as people investigating the world, to create the real... 
I don't drink in the cinema because I have a bladder the size of a hummingbird. 
I like blackjack. I like the psychology of poker. 
A Woman's Question
I had already found that it was not good to be alone, and so made companionship with what there was ... 
I knew now that I had put a world behind me, and that I was opening out another world ahead. I had p... 
I had resolved on a voyage around the world, and as the wind on the morning of April 24, 1895, was f... 
Tears are words the mouth can't say nor can the heart bear. 
The young mind is pliable and imitates, but in more advanced states grows rigid and must be warmed a... 
All I'm trying to do is not join my ancestral spirits just yet. 
The real character of a man is found out by his amusements. 
Could we teach taste or genius by rules, they would be no longer taste and genius. 
I like trying things, I am kind of adventurous and I like thrill seeking. 
For me, I'm a filmmaker because, above all, I'm an explorer. It's my way of exploring an... 
True love isn't expressed in passionately whispered words an intimate kiss or a embrace; before t...