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" Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves. "

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John F. Kennedy

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" The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom... in a clarification of life - not necessarily a great clarification, such as sects and cults are founded on, but in a momentary stay against confusion. "

" I learned some valuable lessons about the legislative process, the importance of bipartisan cooperation and the wisdom of taking small steps to get a big job done. "

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" Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next. "

" Spectacular achievement is always preceded by unspectacular preparation. "

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" Cynicism masquerades as wisdom, but it is the furthest thing from it. Because cynics don't learn anything. Because cynicism is a self-imposed blindness: a rejection of the world because we are afraid it will hurt us or disappoint us. Cynics always say 'no.' But saying 'yes' begins things. Saying 'yes' is how things grow. "

Stephen Colbert

" Habit is the nursery of errors. "

" Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. "

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" A promise made is a debt unpaid. "

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

Arianna Huffington

" In my life, I was always floating around the edge of the dark side and saying what if take it a little bit too far, and who says you have to stop there, and what's behind the next door. Maybe you gain a wisdom from examining those things. But after a while, you get too far down in the quicksand. "

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

" Just as we might take Darwin as an example of the normal extraverted thinking type, the normal introverted thinking type could be represented by Kant. The one speaks with facts, the other relies on the subjective factor. Darwin ranges over the wide field of objective reality, Kant restricts himself to a critique of knowledge. "

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

" It is astonishing what force, purity, and wisdom it requires for a human being to keep clear of falsehoods. "

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" He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose. "

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" Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking. "

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" Wisdom sails with wind and time. "

" Be happy. It's one way of being wise. "

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" Lessons of wisdom have the most power over us when they capture the heart through the groundwork of a story, which engages the passions. "

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" Children also have artistic ability, and there is wisdom in there having it! The more helpless they are, the more instructive are the examples they furnish us; and they must be preserved free of corruption from an early age. "

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" Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young. "

Rabindranath Tagore

" If I am fool, it is, at least, a doubting one; and I envy no one the certainty of his self-approved wisdom. "