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"Cleverness is like a lens with a very sharp focus. Wisdom is more like a wide-angle lens." »Edward de Bono, Textbook of Wisdom
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"You are the lens in the beam. You can only receive, give, and possess the light as the lens does. If you seek yourself, you rob the lens of its transparency. You will know life and be acknowledged by it according to your degree of transparency, your capacity, that is, to vanish as an end, and remain purely as a means." »Dag Hammarskjold
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"You are... the lens in the beam. You can only receive, give, and possess the light as the lens does." »Dag Hammarskjld
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"Modesty is the only sure bait when you angle for praise." »Lord Chesterfield
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"Every man of genius sees the world at a different angle from his fellows, and there is his tragedy." »Henry Havelock Ellis
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"To knock a thing down, especially if it is cocked at an arrogant angle, is a deep delight of the blood." »George Santayana
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"If you seek yourself,...you rob the lens of its transparency.... You will know life and be acknowledged by it according to your degree of transparency, your capacity, that is, to vanish as an end, and remain purely as a means." »Dag Hammarskjld
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"It is not always by plugging away at a difficulty and sticking at it that one overcomes it but, rather, often by working on the one next to it. Certain people and certain things require to be approached on an angle." »Matthew Arnold
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"The mere formulation of a problem is far more essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter of mathematical or experimental skills. To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle requires creative imagination and marks real advances in science." »Albert Einstein
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"It is books that are a key to the wide world if you can't do anything else, read all that you can." »Jane Hamilton
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"By nature, men are nearly alike by practice, they get to be wide apart." »Confucius
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"By nature, men are nearly alike; by practice, they get to be wide apart." »Confucius, The Confucian Analects
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"A wide screen just makes a bad film twice as bad." »Samuel Goldwyn
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"Happiness is equilibrium. Shift your weight. Equilibrium is pragmatic. You have to get everything into proportion. You compensate, rebalance yourself so that you maintain your angle to the world. When the world shifts, you shift." »Tom Stoppard
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"Better to get up late and be wide awake than to get up early and be asleep all day." »Anonymous
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"The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world's joy." »Henry Ward Beecher
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"America is the land of wide lawns and narrow minds." »Ernest Hemingway
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"Keep thy eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards." »Benjamin Franklin
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"There is a wide difference between speaking to deceive, and being silent to be impenetrable." »Voltaire
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"The world is wide, and I will not waste my life in friction when it could be turned into momentum." »Frances Willard
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"The trouble with America is that there are far too many wide-open spaces surrounded by teeth." »Charles Luckman
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"It takes a person who is wide awake to make his dream come true." »Roger Babson
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"Wide-sounding Zeus takes away half a man's worth on the day when slavery comes upon him." »Homer
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"Heaven is not the wide blue sky but the place where corporeality is begotten in the house of the Creative." »Lu Yen
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"One very important ingredient of success is a good, wide-awake, persistent, tireless enemy." »Frank Shutts
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"The secret of happiness is this: Let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather that hostile." »Bertrand Russell
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"Blaise Pascal used to mark with charcoal the walls of his playroom, seeking a means of making a circle perfectly round and a triangle whose sides and angle were all equal. He discovered these things for himself and then began to seek the relationship which existed between them. He did not know any mathematical terms and so he made up his own. Using these names he made axioms and finally developed perfect demonstrations, until he had come to the thirty-second proposition of Euclid." »C. M. Cox
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"There's something intrinsically therapeutic about choosing to spend your time in a wide, open park- like setting that non-golfers can never truly understand." »Charles Rosin
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"There is a wide world out there, my friend, full of pain, but filled with joy as well. The former keeps you on the path of growth, and the latter makes the journey tolerable." »R. A. Salvatore, Sojourn
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"You will certainly not be able to take the lead in all things yourself, for to one man a god has given deeds of war, and to another the dance, to another lyre and song, and in another wide-sounding Zeus puts a good mind." »Homer
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