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" Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else. "

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" I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge. "

Igor Stravinsky

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

Michel de Montaigne

" The weak have remedies, the wise have joys; superior wisdom is superior bliss. "

" You've got to go out on a limb sometimes because that's where the fruit is. "

" We can be knowledgable with other men's knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom. "

Michel de Montaigne

" If you wish to reach the highest, begin at the lowest. "

Publilius Syrus

" 'Swan,' by Mary Oliver. Poems and prose. Reading from this book is as if visiting a very wise friend. There is wisdom and welcoming kindness on every page. "

" As a society, we come up lacking in many of the marks of compassion and wisdom by which we measure ourselves as civilized. "

" Quick decisions are unsafe decisions. "

" We are shallow because we are 'mayabang,' ego driven, and do not have the humility to understand that we are only human, much too human to mistake knowledge for wisdom. "

" A charming woman... doesn't follow the crowd. She is herself. "

" Much wisdom often goes with fewest words. "

" An owl is traditionally a symbol of wisdom, so we are neither doves nor hawks but owls, and we are vigilant when others are resting. "

" Never accept ultimatums, conventional wisdom, or absolutes. "

Christopher Reeve

" True wisdom is less presuming than folly. The wise man doubteth often, and changeth his mind; the fool is obstinate, and doubteth not; he knoweth all things but his own ignorance. "

" Slow and steady wins the race. "

" It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone. "

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

" Many of us spend half of our time wishing for things we could have if we didn't spend half our time wishing. "

Alexander Woollcott

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Today's mighty oak is just yesterday's nut, that held its ground. "

" To light one candle to God and another to the Devil is the principle of wisdom. "

" 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

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

" If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise. "

William Butler Yeats

" 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. "

" When I wrote Living in the Light, I wanted to share about how I live my own life and to encourage people to tap into their own inner wisdom. "

" I'm exploring the maturity, the wisdom that just comes from having gone around the sun 50 times. My experience is, 'Oh, I'm never really going to get it right. I'm never going to get it done. But that's not the point here.' The point is the journey. "

Melissa Etheridge

" The wisdom of the crowds has peaked. Web 3.0 is taking what we've built in Web 2.0 - the wisdom of the crowds - and putting an editorial layer on it of truly talented, compensated people to make the product more trusted and refined. "

Jason Calacanis

" Consider this point. It is a main point of true wisdom. Whenever there is an execution of purpose, there must be an agent. "

Adoniram Judson