The secret of literature, which conventional people don't guess, is that writers are forever looking for the surprising revelation - not for… — Carol Bly Copy Share Image
I'm really lucky to have colleagues in the White House press corps who are both amazing mothers and amazing journalists. Their collective… — Hallie Jackson Copy Share Image
Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Democracy's premise rests on the notion that the collective wisdom of the majority will prove right more often than it's wrong; that… — Ben Fountain Copy Share Image
The anchor of all my dreams is the collective wisdom of mankind as a whole. — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
Libraries have always been humanities' way of preserving its collective wisdom — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
“Democracies, as we know, are prone to every error from incompetence and corruption to misguided fetishes and gridlock. Therefore, it is astonishing,… — Madeleine K. Albright Copy Share Image
I also believe that at a critical point (more than six people?), that collective wisdom turns into group think. — Lewis Schiff Copy Share Image
“Sirius is the Hidden God or "the sun behind the sun". As the moon reflects the sun, so does the sun reflect… — Preston Nichols and Peter Moon Copy Share Image
Nothing is more senseless than to base so many expectations on the state, that is, to assume the existence of collective wisdom… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
Collective wisdom, alas, is no adequate substitute for the intelligence of individuals. Individuals who opposed received opinions have been the source of… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Collective wisdom is about our capacity to recognize interdependence and to make decisions demonstrating that we have a stake in each other,… — Alan Briskin Copy Share Image
If small groups are included in the decision-making process, then they should be allowed to make decisions. If an organization sets up… — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
“Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance. No one in this world, so far as I know—and… — H.L. Mencken Copy Share Image
The fact that cognitive diversity matters does not mean that if you assemble a group of diverse but thoroughly uninformed people, their… — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
Ideas that are at odds with the inherited collective wisdom of antiquity are always, on their face suspect. — Andrew Thomas Copy Share Image
There are two ways of confronting the country's problems.One is through a management style based on adventurism, instability, play-acting, exaggerations, wrongdoing, being… — Mir-Hossein Mousavi Copy Share Image
Until society can be reclaimed by an undivided humanity that will use its collective wisdom, cultural achievements, technological innovations, scientific knowledge, and… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
What if Barack Obama established a Presidential Advisory Committee that would meet once every couple of months, bringing together the former presidents… — Tony Campolo Copy Share Image
“As I ate she began the first of what we later called “my lessons in living.” She said that I must always… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Stories are the collective wisdom of everyone who has ever lived. Your job as a storyteller is not simply to entertain. Nor… — Brian McDonald Copy Share Image
