Age-old wisdom
Sharing the wisdom base
All through history there lived around the world many various people who spoke, wrote and taught about the best way to act and live. From the Bible and the Sages and to the educators, scientists, and businessmen of our day, these people have left us their mark and their wisdom.
Since I am a big believer in using the wheel instead of re-inventing it, I would like to bring here some of the wisdom passed to us through the ages and the distance, in order to enrich us and help us make some of the processes on our way shorter.
On this page, I shall place a choice of these persons for your benefit, with some details on each, to give a bit of general picture of them and their sayings.
A quote is shared experience
They say that a wise man learns from the experience of others. That is why I make a point to include a quotes column in every newsletter, and here they shall be available for you at all times, so you may learn from their experience and get wiser. Naturally, content would be added in time.
From each person, you can go read select quotes of their life’s wisdom, which are relevant and connected to this site’s context: interpersonal relationships, communication, management, leadership, truth, problem-solving, success, thinking, imagination, values, etc.
I invite you to learn a little about them and from them, learn the things they said and think about them deeply. For, as Jim Rohn used to say, you can stay up al night and not think of them yourself! Familiarize yourselves with them. Use them in your work and your personal life. And, not least of all – have fun!
Passing the mouse over a specific person will pause the slider. Clicking the link or picture will open his page.
Quality Gurus | Scientists | Businessmen & economists | Psychologists, management & leadership people | Philosophers | Writers & educators | Religious leaders | Leaders
So said the Sages - people worth hearing
Quality Gurus
Dr. W. Edwards Deming
October 1900 - December 1993
William Edwards Deming was was an American engineer, statistician, professor, author, lecturer, and management consultant. He is considered to be the leading Quality Guru, Father of Quality.
One of his teachers was Walter Shewhart, who developed statistical process control and the “Shewhart Cycle” of constant improvement, PDSA (Plan, Do, Study, Act).
Stephen Covey
October 1932 - July 2012
Stephen Richards Covey was an American educator, author, businessman, and keynote speaker. His popular book, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, has sold more than 25 million copies worldwide and was translated into 40 languages. The audio version became the first non-fiction audio-book in the U.S. to sell more than one million copies.
Scientists
Albert Einstein
March 1879 - April 1955
Albert Einstein was a German-born theoretical physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (especially for his discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect, key for developing quantum physics), who is mostly famous for his theory of relativity. Everyone is familiar with his formula, connecting mass and energy: E = mc2. Tis among the many discoveries he made, which have contributed greatly to the progress of science.
In addition, he has also become known as the philosopher of science.
Businessmen & economists
W. Clement Stone
May 1902 - September 2002
William Clement Stone was a businessman, philanthropist and New Thought self-help book author.
His life began in a poor family with a single mom, when, at the age of 3 his father has died and left them only heavy debt. At the age of 6 he worked as a newspaper hawker. He understood that there may be different ways to sell newspapers from those of the hawkers, who usually worked on street corners. He went onto restaurants to sell them, something no-one else thought of, which gave him an advantage. At 13 he owned a newsstand.
Psychologists, management & leadership people
Peter Drucker
November 1909 – November 2005
Peter Ferdinand Drucker was an Austrian-born American management consultant, educator, and author, the founder of modern management. He contributed to the philosophical and practical foundations of the modern business corporation and invented the concept known as management by objectives and self-control.
Peter Druker was born in a small village called Kaasgraben at the outskirts of Vienna, in a Lutheran “liberal” family. His mother had studied medicine and his father was a lawyer and a high-level civil servant. Hans Kelsen, a jurist and philosopher, the author of the Austrian Constitution was his uncle. He grew up in a home where intellectuals, scientists, economists, philosophers, historians met and new ideas were discussed.
Philosophers
Lao-Tzu
6th or 4th century BC
Lao Tsu was an Ancient Chinese philosopher and writer. The writing of Tao Te Ching (or Dao Te Ching), a collection of 81 poetry chapters on which Taoism is based, is attributed to him.
The name Lao Tsu is not his given name, but an honorific title, meaning something like “Old Master”. It is romanized and pronounced differently, sometimes as Laozi or Lao Tze.
Aristotle
384 - 322 BC
Aristotle was a philosopher and scientist who lived in Ancient Greece in the 4th century BC, the Classical period. His writing encompasses many various fields: physics and metaphysics; biology, and zoology; aesthetics and logic; music and theatre; linguistics and poetry; politics and economics; ethics and psychology…
Along with Plato, he is considered the “Father of Western Philosophy”. The Western culture has inherited his approach, including problems and methods of inquiry, which has influenced almost every form of knowledge.
Writers & educators
Alfie Kohn
born October 1957
Alfie Kohn is an American author and lecturer in the areas of education, parenting, human behavior, social studies and management. He is considered a leading figure in “progressive” education and a critic of many aspects of all that is thought as “traditional” in education and human relations. His whole life he researches and challenges behavioral norms of grades, assessments, standard tests, competition, prizes and punishments, discipline (in the “traditional” sense).
Alfie Kohn was born and grew up in Miami, Florida. In 1979 he has graduated Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, where he had created his own interdisciplinary course of study. And in 1980 he has earned his M.A. in social sciences from the University of Chicago.
Religious leaders
Dalai Lama - 14th
born 6 July 1935
Dalai Lama is a title, the title of the spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhism. The current Dalai Lama is 14th in number, and the man’s name is Tenzin Gyatso.
The title comes from the Mongolian language.
The word dalai means “sea” or “ocean”, and the word lama means “wisdom”. Thus the Dalai Lama is a sea of wisdom.
Leaders
Mahatma Gandhi
October 1869 – January 1948
Mahatma Gandhi’s full name was Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi. He was India’s political and spiritual leader in the first half of the 20th century, leading the Indian independence movement against British colonial rule.
Gandhi has developed and implemented the Satyagraha philosophy. It calls for nonviolent protest out of devotion to the truth and resistance to evil actively, but nonviolently. His outstanding struggle has ended up in India’s independence and made him a symbol and an inspiration for various human rights movements and into one of the most revered world leaders of his time.
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