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" A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow. "

Charlotte Bronte

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" Women are stronger than men - they do not die of wisdom. "

" Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification. "

Martin H. Fischer

" The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living, which are to be desired when dying. "

" To profit from good advice requires more wisdom than to give it. "

" No single person can possess the wisdom to chart our course. "

Jonathan Schell

" Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well. "

Ralph Waldo Emerson

" By definition, the Singularity means that machines would be smarter than us, and, in their wisdom, they can innovate new technologies. The innovations would come so quickly, and increasingly quickly, that the innovation would make Moore's Law seem as antiquated as Hammurabi's Code. "

" In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause. "

" 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. "

" To know one's self is wisdom, but not to know one's neighbors is genius. "

" Wisdom is knowledge which has become a part of one's being. "

Orison Swett Marden

" I have sympathy for young people, for their growing pains, but I balk when these growing pains are pushed into the foreground, when you make these young people the only vehicles of life's wisdom. "

Wislawa Szymborska

" You need to have extraordinary wisdom to be the forerunner. "

" I knew that I had it tough compared to children around me. But I felt like I needed it. I think I had the wisdom as a child to know that it would help me later on. "

" Lion sounds that have not grown from the mouse may exude naked power... but cannot convey any wisdom or understanding... The initial steps on the path to courageous speech then are the first tentative steps into the parts of us that cannot speak. "

" The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions. "

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

" Swim upstream. Go the other way. Ignore the conventional wisdom. "

" The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one. "

Honore de Balzac

" When written in Chinese, the word 'crisis' is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity. "

John F. Kennedy

" Wise kings generally have wise counselors; and he must be a wise man himself who is capable of distinguishing one. "

" It is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor. "

Michel de Montaigne

" Cleverness is not wisdom. "

" Unhappy is that Grandeur which makes us too great to be good; and that Wit which sets us at a distance from true Wisdom. "

" Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake. "

Napoleon Bonaparte

" I'm very accepting with my age. It's like notches on your belt: experience, wisdom, and a different kind of beauty. There comes a day when you've become comfortable in your skin. "

" My own life is wonderful, but if I had to live the life of someone else, I'd gladly choose that of Julia Child or Dr. Seuss: two outrageously original people, each of whom fashioned an idiosyncratic wisdom, passion for life, and sense of humor into an art form that anyone and everyone could savor. "

" Every silver lining has a cloud. "

" If you're trying to achieve, there will be roadblocks. I've had them; everybody has had them. But obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it. "

" We humans have lost the wisdom of genuinely resting and relaxing. We worry too much. We don't allow our bodies to heal, and we don't allow our minds and hearts to heal. "

Thich Nhat Hanh