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" Everything in the world may be endured except continual prosperity. "

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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" Whatever position I occupied, it was the result of colleagues - of my comrades in the movement - who had decided in their wisdom to use me for the purpose of focusing the attention of the country and the international community on me. "

" To create something you must be something. "

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

" 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. "

" No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool. Writers, alas, have to be fools in public, while the rest of the human race can cover its tracks. "

" I am a poor student sitting at the feet of giants, yearning for their wisdom and begging for lessons that might one day make me a complete artist, so that if all goes well, I may one day sit beside them. "

" It's not the having, it's the getting. "

Elizabeth Taylor

" The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing. "

" Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do. "

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

" If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner. "

Omar N. Bradley

" The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention. "

" 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. "

" Age merely shows what children we remain. "

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

" Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men. "

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

" One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know. "

John Kenneth Galbraith

" What if Barack Obama established a Presidential Advisory Committee that would meet once every couple of months, bringing together the former presidents for a conference in order to seek their collective wisdom? There is a wealth of experience in former presidents that generally goes untapped. "

" One part of wisdom is knowing what you don't need anymore and letting it go. "

" The biggest problem with every art is by the use of appearance to create a loftier reality. "

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" Outside of hip-hop, it was in comics that I most often found the aesthetics and wisdom of my world reflected. "

Ta-Nehisi Coates

" Strong characters are brought out by change of situation, and gentle ones by permanence. "

" Justice Scalia was a lion of the law. Agree or disagree with him, all of his colleagues on the bench shared his wisdom and his humor. And like them, I miss him. "

" Practical wisdom is only to be learned in the school of experience. Precepts and instruction are useful so far as they go, but, without the discipline of real life, they remain of the nature of theory only. "

" Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds. "

" Along with success comes a reputation for wisdom. "

" Never reach out your hand unless you're willing to extend an arm. "

" We learned in World War II that no single nation holds a monopoly on wisdom, morality or right to power, but that we must fight for the weak and promote democracy. "

" Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents. "

" Preconceived notions are the locks on the door to wisdom. "

" Spending two years on my uncle's ranch in Montana as a young man gave me the wisdom and the thrust to do westerns. "

" Purity engenders Wisdom, Passion avarice, and Ignorance folly, infatuation and darkness. "

" Wisdom is a sacred communion. "