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" Everything important always begins from something trivial. "
Donald Hall
Important
Always
Everything
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" Wisdom and knowledge are the most valuable things in the body. "
Masayoshi Son
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Things
" Protection, as we use the word in Buddhism, is actually wisdom, it's insight. Protection is seeing and knowing deeply that all things in our experience arise due to causes, due to conditions coming together in a certain way. "
Sharon Salzberg
Experience
Together
Seeing
" Wisdom is found only in truth. "
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Found
Wisdom
Truth
" Not a single illegal immigrant should or need enter the United States, not one. Contrary to the common wisdom, the borders are easy to seal, and controlling entry is hardly totalitarian. "
Mark Helprin
Immigrant
Need
Single
" When I was born, the wisdom was that homosexuality was an illness; that it was caused largely by somebody's mother, and a distorted relationship with the mother. And now, as I live my life - married to a husband, with kids - it's an identity. "
Andrew Solomon
Mother
Life
Wisdom
" Conventional wisdom tells us we'll only be happier after a divorce if the marriage itself was a war zone. "
Ariel Gore
Only
Wisdom
War
" Our bodies are at once the receiving and transmitting stations for life itself. It is the highest wisdom to recognize this fact and train our bodies to render them sensitive and responsive to nature. art and religion. "
Ruth St. Denis
Art
Life
Nature
" Purity engenders Wisdom, Passion avarice, and Ignorance folly, infatuation and darkness. "
Cyril Connolly
Darkness
Wisdom
Passion
" Friends die, friends become demented, friends quarrel, friends drift with old age into silence. "
Donald Hall
Die
Silence
Old Age
" As I grew older - collapsing into my seventies, glimpsing ahead the cliffs of the eighties, colliding into eighty-five - poetry abandoned me. "
Donald Hall
Seventies
Me
Ahead
" All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man. "
Henry David Thoreau
Wisdom
Some
Wise
" Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds. "
George Eliot
Much
Our
Us
" Alas, those six unfortunate souls who have made their way through my books know that every one of them is about Emerson and Thoreau and their dark counters, Melville and Emily Dickinson. Try as I might, I can't get their inspirations, their challenges and sentences and wisdom and questions out of my head. "
Pico Iyer
Dark
Try
Know
" If you want to be found stand where the seeker seeks. "
Sidney Lanier
You
Where
Found
" Every afternoon, I shut the door of my bedroom to write: Poetry was secret, dangerous, wicked and delicious. "
Donald Hall
Wicked
Bedroom
Dangerous
" 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
Wisdom
Will
Washington
" I've always felt that poetry was particularly erotic, more than prose was... I say that you read poems not with your eyes and not with your ears, but with your mouth. You taste it. "
Donald Hall
Say
You
Poetry
" I have seen so many poets who were famous, who won all sorts of prizes, disappear with their death. I write as good as I can and don't try to turn that into some hope for a future that I could never know. "
Donald Hall
Know
Hope
Future
" We live in a culture that doesn't acknowledge or validate human intuition and doesn't encourage us to rely on our intuitive wisdom. "
Shakti Gawain
Culture
Intuition
Wisdom
" Applause is a receipt, not a bill. "
Dale Carnegie
Bill
Applause
Wisdom
" I believe the continually advancing Information Revolution will lend us the wisdom and strength to address humanity's previously unsolvable problems and help us make a positive impact on all of society. "
Masayoshi Son
Revolution
Strength
Wisdom
" We developed a technology called artificial swarm intelligence, which is all about tapping the inherent knowledge, wisdom, intuition of groups. "
Louis B. Rosenberg
Knowledge
Wisdom
Technology
" 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. "
William Hurt
You
Problem
Information
" Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young. "
Rabindranath Tagore
Gray
Tongue
Wisdom
" Wisdom is humble that he knows no more. "
William Cowper
More
Knows
Humble
" The soul's joy lies in doing. "
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Lies
Doing
Soul
" Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out. "
Iris Murdoch
Shoes
Pair
Saying
" Wisdom is not acquired save as the result of investigation. "
Sara Teasdale
Result
Save
Wisdom
" When I was a child, I loved old people. My New Hampshire grandfather was my model human being. "
Donald Hall
New
Loved
Grandfather
" He who devotes sixteen hours a day to hard study may become at sixty as wise as he thought himself at twenty. "
Mary Wilson Little
Study
Hard
Wisdom