“Wisdom is a combination of intelligence that is based on reasoning skills and supported by the ability to understand other people's points of view.”

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“Intelligence is not only the ability to reason; it is also the ability to find relevant material in memory and to deploy attention when needed.”

Daniel Kahneman book Thinking, Fast and Slow

Source: Thinking, Fast and Slow (2011), Chapter 3, "The lazy controller", page 46 (ISBN 9780141033570).

“May the ability to see many points of view keep us gentle.”

B. W. Powe (1955) Canadian writer

Coda, p. 167
Towards a Canada of Light (2006)

“All free governments are managed by the combined wisdom and folly of the people.”

James A. Garfield (1831–1881) American politician, 20th President of the United States (in office in 1881)

Letter to B. A. Hinsdale, (21 April 1880), in The Nation's Hero — In Memoriam : The Life of James Abram Garfield (1881) by J. M. Bundy, p. 216 http://books.google.com/books?id=mlTUAAAAMAAJ 1880s

“All free governments are managed by the combined wisdom and folly of the people.”

Thaddeus Stevens (1792–1868) American politician

James A. Garfield, as quoted in Many Thoughts of Many Minds : A Treasury of Quotations from the Literature of Every Land and Every Age (1896) edited by Louis Klopsch, p. 116
Misattributed

“faith and reason “mutually support each other”; each influences the other, as they offer to each other a purifying critique and a stimulus to pursue the search for deeper understanding”

Pope John Paul II (1920–2005) 264th Pope of the Catholic Church, saint

Encyclical Fides et Ratio, 14 September 1998 Source: www.vatican.va http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/john_paul_ii/encyclicals/documents/hf_jp-ii_enc_14091998_fides-et-ratio_en.html

“That's certainly one point of view. Quite understandable.”

Constantine P. Cavafy (1863–1933) Greek poet

" In The Year 200 B.C. http://cavafis.compupress.gr/kave_1.htm" (1931) Context: The Spartans weren't to be led and ordered around like precious servants. Besides, they wouldn't have thought a pan-Hellenic expedition without a Spartan king in command was to be taken very seriously. Of course, then, "except the Lacedaimonians." That's certainly one point of view. Quite understandable.

“If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person's point of view and see things from that person's angle as well as from your own.”

Henry Ford book My Life and Work

My Life and Work (1922)

“Women … do not have to forsake the "wisdom of the heart" and become men. They need only transfer the primary force of their supportiveness to themselves and to each other—but never to the point of self-sacrifice.”

Phyllis Chesler (1940) Psychotherapist, college professor, and author

Women and Madness (2005), p. 348, and see Women and Madness (1972), p. 301 (similar text).
Women and Madness (1972, 2005)

“Inability to cooperate with others. More people lose their positions and their big opportunities in life, because of this fault, than for all other reasons combined.”

Napoleon Hill book Think and Grow Rich

Think and Grow Rich (1938)

“Wisdom is a combination of intelligence that is based on reasoning skills and supported by the ability to understand other people's points of view.”

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