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" Of prosperity mortals can never have enough. "
Aeschylus
Prosperity
Wisdom
Never
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" If you pour oil and vinegar into the same vessel, you would call them not friends but opponents. "
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" I'm at the transition place myself, still playing high school girls but moving to a stage when I'm playing older roles and going to the places of stillness and wisdom and knowledge and weight. It's exciting and scary. "
Tatiana Maslany
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" Whenever you argue with another wiser than yourself in order that others may admire your wisdom, they will discover your ignorance. "
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" The hours of folly are measured by the clock; but of wisdom, no clock can measure. "
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" Given the unprecedented ignorance of the Bible in contemporary America, it is likely that more young Americans will only know the Noah of 'Noah.' We can only hope that the film offers even a fraction of the wisdom of the original. "
Dennis Prager
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" Who apart from the gods is without pain for his whole lifetime's length? "
Aeschylus
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" Perspective is worth 80 IQ points. "
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" I don't know that you're able to measure your aggregate wisdom as you go through life. I can't say that I ever feel that I'm sitting on top of a growing mound of wisdom. "
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" But time growing old teaches all things. "
Aeschylus
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" Wisdom is not acquired save as the result of investigation. "
Sara Teasdale
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" Contemplation and wisdom are highest achievements and man is not totally at home with them. "
Gabriel Marcel
Home
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" The doors of wisdom are never shut. "
Benjamin Franklin
Never
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" Your law may be perfect, your knowledge of human affairs may be such as to enable you to apply it with wisdom and skill, and yet without individual acquaintance with men, their haunts and habits, the pursuit of the profession becomes difficult, slow, and expensive. "
William Dunbar
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" All the great evils which men cause to each other because of certain intentions, desires, opinions, or religious principles, are likewise due to non-existence, because they originate in ignorance, which is absence of wisdom. "
Maimonides
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" Our ascendancy of the past two centuries - first Europe and then the U.S. - has bred a western-centric mentality: the West is the fount of all wisdom. We think of ourselves as open-minded, but our sense of superiority has closed our minds. We never entertained the idea that China could surpass the U.S. "
Martin Jacques
Never
Past
Two
" The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work. "
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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" Meditation is the soul's perspective glass. "
Owen Feltham
Soul
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" I love wisdom. And you can never be great at anything unless you love it. Not be in love with it, but love the thing, admire the thing. And it seems that if you love the thing, and you don't just want to possess it, it will find you. "
Maya Angelou
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" I, schooled in misery, know many purifying rites, and I know where speech is proper and where silence. "
Aeschylus
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Silence
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" Never say never, but the thought of electively cutting oneself is beyond my grasp, and I also object to it politically. Denying the lines on our faces makes a comment about age and wisdom I don't care to make. "
Debra Winger
Wisdom
Age
Care
" When you get older, you learn certain life lessons. You apply that wisdom, and suddenly you say, 'Hey, I've got a new lease on this thing. So let's go.' "
Robert Redford
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" I have seen life from the top down and the bottom up. I know how it looks both ways. And I know there is wisdom and that there is hope. "
L. Ron Hubbard
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" We do not sit as a superlegislature to weigh the wisdom of legislation. "
William O. Douglas
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" A promise made is a debt unpaid. "
Robert W. Service
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" Deliberately seek opportunities for kindness, sympathy, and patience. "
Evelyn Underhill
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" Most people see what they expect to see, what they want to see, what they've been told to see, what conventional wisdom tells them to see - not what is right in front of them in its pristine condition. "
Vincent Bugliosi
People
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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
Foundation
Good
Wisdom
" To avoid entangling alliances has been a maxim of our policy ever since the days of Washington, and its wisdom no one will attempt to dispute. "
James Buchanan
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" We are wiser than we know. "
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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