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Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency.
– John Updike
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Now it is time to turn to an older wisdom that, while respecting material comfort and security as a basic right of all, also recognises that many of the most valuable things in life cannot be measured.
– Michael D. Higgins
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Novels are the Socratic dialogues of our time. Practical wisdom fled from school wisdom into this liberal form.
– Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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Not engaging in ignorance is wisdom.
– Bodhidharma
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Normally street children are shown in terms of the tragedy of their lives - which is true - but there's also another dimension: their wisdom, dignity and enormous capacity for survival.
– Henning Mankell
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Nobility of spirit has more to do with simplicity than ostentation, wisdom rather than wealth, commitment rather than ambition.
– Riccardo Muti
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No party has a monopoly on wisdom. No democracy works without compromise. But when Governor Romney and his allies in Congress tell us we can somehow lower our deficit by spending trillions more on new tax breaks for the wealthy - well, you do the math. I refuse to go along with that. And as long as I'm President, I never will.
– Barack Obama
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No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool. Writers, alas, have to be fools in public, while the rest of the human race can cover its tracks.
– Erica Jong
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No man was ever wise by chance.
– Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
– George S. Patton
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Never let a fool kiss you, or a kiss fool you.
– Joey Adams
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Never accept ultimatums, conventional wisdom, or absolutes.
– Christopher Reeve
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My mother is a great source of advice and wisdom and consolation for me.
– Katherine Heigl
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Much wisdom often goes with fewest words.
– Sophocles
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Much of the wisdom of one age, is the folly of the next.
– Charles Simmons
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Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.
– Wallace Stegner
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Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them in their mediocrity.
– Robert Louis Stevenson
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Many people have their reputations as reporters and analysts because they are on television, batting around conventional wisdom. A lot of these people have never reported a story.
– Bob Woodward
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Mainstream media tend to just mouth the conventional wisdom, to see everything through the filter of right and left.
– Arianna Huffington
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Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
– Samuel Johnson
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Lord, bless me with the ability to achieve all that I can, and the wisdom to realize it doesn't all have to be by tomorrow!
– William Eardley IV
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Lord, give us the wisdom to utter words that are gentle and tender, for tomorrow we may have to eat them.
– Mo Udall
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Logic is the beginning of wisdom, not the end.
– Leonard Nimoy
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Kisses are a better fate than wisdom.
– e. e. cummings
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It's very hard to know what wisdom is.
– James Hillman
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It's received wisdom that the English are uniquely child-unfriendly.
– Julie Burchill
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It may be assumed as an axiom that Providence has never gifted any political party with all of political wisdom or blinded it with all of political folly.
– John George Nicolay
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It may almost be a question whether such wisdom as many of us have in our mature years has not come from the dying out of the power of temptation, rather than as the results of thought and resolution.
– Anthony Trollope
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It is the neglect of timely repair that makes rebuilding necessary.
– Richard Whately
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It is now conventional wisdom that Americans do not care why we went to war in Iraq, that it is enough that the world is better off without Saddam Hussein.
– Adam Schiff
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It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.
– Menander
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It is not wisdom but Authority that makes a law.
– Thomas Hobbes
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It is good even for old men to learn wisdom.
– Aeschylus
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It is costly wisdom that is bought by experience.
– Roger Ascham
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It is astonishing what force, purity, and wisdom it requires for a human being to keep clear of falsehoods.
– Margaret Fuller
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It is almost everywhere the case that soon after it is begotten the greater part of human wisdom is laid to rest in repositories.
– Georg C. Lichtenberg
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It has become part of the accepted wisdom to say that the twentieth century was the century of physics and the twenty-first century will be the century of biology.
– Freeman Dyson
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Instead of looking at life as a narrowing funnel, we can see it ever widening to choose the things we want to do, to take the wisdom we've learned and create something.
– Liz Carpenter
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India is known for its sobriety and wisdom, balanced and sensible thinking. We need strong institutions and we need good governance in the country.
– Pratibha Patil
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In the frank expression of conflicting opinions lies the greatest promise of wisdom in governmental action.
– Louis D. Brandeis
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In regard of the rich grace and wisdom of his love toward his people for who sees not, but that it is a curse to be unready as these foolish virgins, who were therefore shut out.
– Thomas Shepard
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In order to have wisdom we must have ignorance.
– Theodore Dreiser
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In my own personal life, God plays a great role in the risk, because I pray before I go into the operating room for every case, and I ask him to give me wisdom, to help me to know what to do - and not only for operating, but for everything.
– Benjamin Carson
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In my definition of consciousness, consciousness is the same thing as life. What wisdom traditions also call spirit.
– Deepak Chopra
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In justice to human society it may perhaps be said of almost all the polities and civil institutions in the world, however imperfect, that they have been founded in and carried on with very considerable wisdom.
– Ezra Stiles
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If you were to offer a thirsty man all wisdom, you would not please him more than if you gave him a drink.
– Sophocles
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If you have a vaccine or an antidote that people can benefit from, you're not going to want to keep it to yourself. You're going to want to spread that wisdom or whatever to as many people as you can, so everybody can benefit from it.
– will.i.am
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If you call failures experiments, you can put them in your resume and claim them as achievements.
– Mason Cooley
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If we have built on the fragile cornerstones of human wisdom, pride, and conditional love, things may look good for a while, but a weak foundation causes collapse when storms hit.
– Charles Stanley
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If we can return to a government that the Founders, in their wisdom, envisioned for us, we can return to a government that will allow our economy to thrive again, and our people to live in liberty.
– Nan Hayworth
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If to live is to progress, if you are lucky, from foolishness to wisdom, then to write novels is to broadcast the various stages of your foolishness.
– Jane Smiley
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If they can prove that I am wrong by that time, I will give it up to their wisdom, but not after to any one's judgment, till I see the end of another year for the Lord will begin with a new century and I will see what he will do, before I will hearken to any man's judgment.
– Joanna Southcott
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If the highest things are unknowable, then the highest capacity or virtue of man cannot be theoretical wisdom.
– Leo Strauss
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If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise.
– William Butler Yeats
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If I am fool, it is, at least, a doubting one and I envy no one the certainty of his self-approved wisdom.
– George Byron
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If God had sufficient wisdom and power to construct such a beautiful world as this, then we must admit that his wisdom and power are immeasurably greater than that of man, and hence he is qualified to reign as king.
– Orson Pratt
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If an idea is indeed sensible, it will eventually become just part of the accepted wisdom.
– Nigel Farage
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I've always shied away from conventional wisdom, though I know the power of it.
– Peter Jennings
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I'm someone who's done the opposite of whatever the received wisdom is, to keep your career going into your 50s.
– Elizabeth McGovern
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I'm not wise, but the beginning of wisdom is there it's like relaxing into - and an acceptance of - things.
– Tina Turner
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I'm not a money manager, but I can tell you what the conventional wisdom is. The younger you are, the more risk you can take on.
– Maria Bartiromo
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I'd rather regret the things I've done than regret the things I haven't done.
– Lucille Ball
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I will give you a definition of a proud man: he is a man who has neither vanity nor wisdom one filled with hatreds cannot be vain, neither can he be wise.
– John Keats
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I think in conventional magazine wisdom, you need to have a redesign every decade or so.
– Timothy White
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I see a wiser person than when I was younger: having babies, and passing 30, were the turning points. What women in their 40s - I am 39 - lack in gorgeousness, they make up for in wisdom. I love ageing, despite the drawbacks - thinner, drier skin.
– Thandie Newton
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I probably wouldn't be a songwriter if I didn't grow up the way I did. It was difficult and it was at times very scary to grow up in a household so unsettled and at times very violent. But, it also, I guess it earned me a sort of wisdom at a young age that's served me well.
– Ray LaMontagne
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I left school at 16 but I wish I'd gone to university - I think I would have studied English literature. I had a knack for that. But I don't think you have the kind of wisdom at 16 to make that decision.
– Brendan Coyle
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I learned some valuable lessons about the legislative process, the importance of bipartisan cooperation and the wisdom of taking small steps to get a big job done.
– Hillary Clinton
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I have tried at every point to seek God's wisdom on the decisions I made, and I made it my business to speak up on behalf of the things God tells us are important to Him.
– Jesse Helms
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I find the fact that billionaires are quoted as if the fact that they are billionaires gives them some kind of wisdom is outrageous.
– Ben Elton
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I find that to be a fool as to worldly wisdom, and to commit my cause to God, not fearing to offend men, who take offence at the simplicity of truth, is the only way to remain unmoved at the sentiments of others.
– John Woolman
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I feel increasingly like age is very irrelevant. Quite often, cynicism is confused with wisdom, and my scorn is confused with a knowing, which I don't have.
– Laura Marling
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I don't want to put a pause on the rest of my life I'm really enjoying getting older and the wisdom that comes from that.
– Rosemarie DeWitt
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I don't turn to greeting cards for wisdom and advice, but they are a fine reflection of the general drift of the culture.
– Susan Orlean
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I don't think you can come into your wisdom until you have made mistakes on your own skin and felt them in reality of your own life.
– Elizabeth Gilbert
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I don't think I really have any wisdom. Stay out of trouble. Good luck. Stay away from women because they will burn you, haha.
– Jason Aldean
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I do interviews because it's a chance to be myself. I sometimes wonder what I could have to say that would be of any interest. I don't have any great wisdom.
– Parker Stevenson
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I didn't get where I am today by worryin' about how I'd feel tomorrow.
– Ron White
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I covered my face because they had taken my wisdom teeth out.
– Josh Brolin
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I continue to believe, contrary to the given wisdom, that it's more interesting to have an album - or, indeed, an individual song - which has variety rather than homogeneity.
– Peter Hammill
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I chose Sony Classics, not just because of their practical experience, not just because of their wisdom in marketing, but mainly because of their integrity.
– Arthur Cohn
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I believe we have become paralyzed, paralyzed by our desire to be loved. Now our founding fathers had the wisdom to know that social acceptance and popularity were fleeing, and that this country's principles needed to be rooted in strengths greater than the passions and the emotions of the times.
– Chris Christie
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I am not one who was born in the custody of wisdom I am one who is fond of olden times and intense in quest of the sacred knowing of the ancients.
– Gustave Courbet
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I am a poor student sitting at the feet of giants, yearning for their wisdom and begging for lessons that might one day make me a complete artist, so that if all goes well, I may one day sit beside them.
– Rod Taylor
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I always told, Sandra Bullock was my student when she was younger, I always told her it's important that we hold on to our insecurity, the wisdom of insecurity.
– Sally Kirkland
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I always see where I didn't do things the right way. I only see the heavy lifting. That's a bit of my wisdom, if you want to call it that.
– Vera Wang
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I always prayed that God would give me the wisdom and the vision to do the things on this earth that I was supposed to do to express His life and love and His will.
– Billy Ray Cyrus
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I actually think with age comes some level of wisdom.
– Nina Totenberg
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I actually don't think that I'm that much smarter than anybody else. It's just that I frequently just seem to know what to do, and I think that's wisdom.
– Benjamin Carson
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Humility is the only true wisdom by which we prepare our minds for all the possible changes of life.
– George Arliss
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However, I must not indulge in homespun wisdom here before so distinguished an assembly, especially as I am to be followed by a representative of science.
– Knut Hamsun
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He whose wisdom cannot help him, gets no good from being wise.
– Quintus Ennius
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He was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the rich.
– Evelyn Waugh
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He read his mind. He's a strange sort of man, isn't he? It's not just the advice and the wisdom that he has.
– Omar Sharif
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Hatred is corrosive of a person's wisdom and conscience the mentality of enmity can poison a nation's spirit, instigate brutal life and death struggles, destroy a society's tolerance and humanity, and block a nation's progress to freedom and democracy.
– Liu Xiaobo
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Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun.
– Franz Grillparzer
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Full of wisdom are the ordinations of fate.
– Friedrich Schiller
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From the errors of others, a wise man corrects his own.
– Publilius Syrus
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For the subtlest folly proceeds from the subtlest wisdom.
– John Webster
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Follow your instincts. That's where true wisdom manifests itself.
– Oprah Winfrey
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