Quotes About Collective Wisdom

#1. The collective wisdom of humanity [is] enshrined in its poetry.

Robyn Donald

#2. Here in your heart, deep in your soul, resides the universe's collective wisdom, waiting for expression through your life's experience.

Robbie Vorhaus

#3. Pope Benedict XVI assumes leadership at a critical time in which the world's collective wisdom and leadership including that of the religious community is most important to face up to challenges of deepening poverty and under-development afflicting many people of the world.

Thabo Mbeki

#4. Libraries have always been humanities' way of preserving its collective wisdom

Umberto Eco

#5. Diversity of thought is in demand, for boosting collective creativity and harnessing collective wisdom.

Pearl Zhu

#6. Collective wisdom, alas, is no adequate substitute for the intelligence of individuals. Individuals who opposed received opinions have been the source of all progress, both moral and intellectual. They have been unpopular, as was natural.

Bertrand Russell

#7. We must nurture tolerance, collective wisdom, and democracy.

Nelson Mandela

#8. Listen carefully to what country people called mother wit. That in those homely sayings was couched the collective wisdom of generations. When

Maya Angelou

#9. I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

Thomas Carlyle

#10. Ideas that are at odds with the inherited collective wisdom of antiquity are always, on their face suspect.

Andrew Thomas

#11. The anchor of all my dreams is the collective wisdom of mankind as a whole.

Nelson Mandela

#12. As a man of the Congress, let me reaffirm my conviction that the collective wisdom of our two great legislative bodies, while not infallible, will in the end serve the people faithfully and very, very well.

Gerald R. Ford

#13. What if Barack Obama established a Presidential Advisory Committee that would meet once every couple of months, bringing together the former presidents for a conference in order to seek their collective wisdom? There is a wealth of experience in former presidents that generally goes untapped.

Tony Campolo

#14. Nothing is more senseless than to base so many expectations on the state, that is, to assume the existence of collective wisdom and foresight after taking for granted the existence of individual imbecility and improvidence.

Frederic Bastiat

#15. If small groups are included in the decision-making process, then they should be allowed to make decisions. If an organization sets up teams and then uses them for purely advisory purposes, it loses the true advantage that a team has: namely, collective wisdom.

James Surowiecki

#16. The secret of literature, which conventional people don't guess, is that writers are forever looking for the surprising revelation - not for reinforcement of collective wisdom.

Carol Bly

#17. True and lasting solution to correct ills can be found only by inner, collective transformation of human beings.

Nirmala Srivastava

#18. It should be possible to say that there really is such as thing as "genius" and that what it is, is precisely a surprising and unexpected movement away from collective patterns of behavior and received wisdom.

William Irwin Thompson

#19. Participating in class, doing your homework, and basically just having your shit together and doing what's got to be done shouldn't be seen as a lame move, it's extremely counterproductive to the fostering of our collective intelligence.

Joshua Neik

#20. A meeting is a collective tacit confession of participants' unwillingness to work.

Pawan Mishra

#21. We make fiction because we are fiction ... It lived us into being and it lives us still.

Russell Hoban

#22. To trust immediate intuitions rather than collective examination that is rational, careful, and intelligent is not wisdom: it is the presumption of an old man who refuses to believe that the great world outside his village is any different from the one that he has always known. As

Carlo Rovelli

#23. Beware of ignorance when in motion; look out for inexperience when in action, and beware of the majority when mentally poisoned with misinformation, for collective ignorance does not become wisdom.

William J.H. Boetcker

#24. We have access to all knowledge and wisdom of the Universe/God through our connection to the collective consciousness. Once you fully embrace Oneness with the Universe/God, you will look inward through your personal consciousness to the collective consciousness for all answers.

Russell Anthony Gibbs

#25. In the collective psyche it is being understood ... that we can cultivate wisdom and compassion.

Tara Brach

#26. We're proud of the work we're doing to make Chicago a great city for people of all ages. Nothing's more important than keeping in mind the needs of older adults - and how valuable a role they play in improving the city, based on their amazing collective talent and wisdom.

Rahm Emanuel

#27. To get rid of greed, you should try to do some sort of a collective social work.

Nirmala Srivastava

#28. The mind creates all the problems for an individual or for the collective. One has to go beyond the mind into thoughtless awareness, where there is peace.

Nirmala Srivastava

#29. To know the reality one has to enter into the realm of Meta-science, beyond mind, which is only possible when we enter into the collective super-consciousness through self-realisation.

Nirmala Srivastava

#30. The great creative individual ... is capable of more wisdom and virtue than collective man ever can be.

John Stuart Mill

#31. Through Sahaja Yoga what happens to you, that you become a collective personality.

Nirmala Srivastava

#32. The greatest law of Sahaja Yoga is that it is a collective happening.

Nirmala Srivastava