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" Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use. "

Thomas J. Watson

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" Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children. "

" The way you see people is the way you treat them, and the way you treat them is what they become. "

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

" Wisdom is nothing but a preparation of the soul, a capacity, a secret art of thinking, feeling and breathing thoughts of unity at every moment of life. "

" Trouble shared is trouble halved. "

" I am deeply impressed with the gravity and wisdom with which most federal judges approach the responsibility of sentencing. It is a difficult, soul-searching task at best. "

" Mainstream media tend to just mouth the conventional wisdom, to see everything through the filter of right and left. "

Arianna Huffington

" I am profoundly indebted to the legacy of Wilhelm Reich, whose monumental contribution to the understanding of energy was taught to me by Philip Curcurruto, a man of simple wisdom and compassionate heart. "

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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. "

" The enemy of the conventional wisdom is not ideas but the march of events. "

John Kenneth Galbraith

" I praise loudly. I blame softly. "

Catherine the Great

" 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

" Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it. "

" 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. "

" Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment. "

" If fortune favors you do not be elated; if she frowns do not despond. "

" Commitment is an act, not a word. "

Jean-Paul Sartre

" We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us. "

" I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures. "

" Better than the strength of men and horses is our wisdom. "

" The wisdom of the wise is an uncommon degree of common sense. "

" The problem with Google is you have 360 degrees of omnidirectional information on a linear basis, but the algorithms for irony and ambiguity are not there. And those are the algorithms of wisdom. "

" Spend time reflecting on your emotional and physical existence and how that applies to the voice. You have to apply that wisdom and experience when you sing - it's what comes through. "

" A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right. "

" If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail. "

" It is always our own self that we find at the end of the journey. The sooner we face that self, the better. "

" The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while. "

Albert Einstein

" What is the price of experience? Do men buy it for a song? Or wisdom for a dance in the street? No, it is bought with the price of all the man hath, his house, his wife, his children. "

" It used to be, it is accepted scientific wisdom the Earth is flat, and this heretic named Galileo was branded a denier. "

" People spend too much time finding other people to blame, too much energy finding excuses for not being what they are capable of being, and not enough energy putting themselves on the line, growing out of the past, and getting on with their lives. "

J. Michael Straczynski