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" Few of the many wise apothegms which have been uttered have prevented a single foolish action. "
Thomas Babington Macaulay
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Wisdom
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" Come, come, leave business to idlers, and wisdom to fools: they have need of 'em: wit be my faculty, and pleasure my occupation, and let father Time shake his glass. "
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" There is no greater privilege in living than bringing a tiny new human being into the world and then trying to raise him or her properly during the next eighteen years. Doing that job right requires all the intelligence, wisdom, and determination you will be able to muster from day to day. "
James Dobson
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" We're living in a society where you need to be accountable for your actions, for your behavior - for yourself. To sit back and be reactive would be to allow your children to make big mistakes without the benefit of your wisdom being bestowed on them. It's not what my parents taught me. "
Ian Ziering
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" It isn't right to judge strength as better than good wisdom. "
Xenophanes
Judge
Better
Wisdom
" All wisdom does not reside in Delhi. "
P. Chidambaram
Delhi
Does
Reside
" 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. "
Michael Jordan
Climb
You
Work
" Vanity can easily overtake wisdom. It usually overtakes common sense. "
Julian Casablancas
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Wisdom
Vanity
" Wise sayings often fall on barren ground, but a kind word is never thrown away. "
Arthur Helps
Fall
Wisdom
Ground
" In the end, the real wisdom of menopause may be in questioning how fun or even sane this chore wheel called modern life actually is. "
Sandra Tsing Loh
Life
Wisdom
Fun
" Start wide, expand further, and never look back. "
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Never
Start
Wisdom
" It is good even for old men to learn wisdom. "
Aeschylus
Old
Wisdom
Old Men
" Let my skin and sinews and bones dry up, together with all the flesh and blood of my body! I welcome it! But I will not move from this spot until I have attained the supreme and final wisdom. "
Buddha
Body
Wisdom
Skin
" Most people see what they expect to see, what they want to see, what they've been told to see, what conventional wisdom tells them to see - not what is right in front of them in its pristine condition. "
Vincent Bugliosi
People
Expect
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" Don't gain the world and lose your soul; wisdom is better than silver or gold. "
Bob Marley
World
Wisdom
Soul
" The wisdom of age: don't stop walking. "
Mason Cooley
Wisdom
Stop
Age
" A single breaker may recede; but the tide is evidently coming in. "
Thomas Babington Macaulay
Breaker
Coming
May
" Logic is the beginning of wisdom, not the end. "
Leonard Nimoy
Logic
End
Beginning
" Knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows. "
Alfred North Whitehead
Wisdom
Knowledge
Grows
" The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions. "
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Rules
Man
Young Man
" 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
Web
Wisdom
Make
" 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
" Words of wisdom are spoken by children at least as often as scientists. "
James Newman
Words
Often
Children
" It is wisdom in prosperity, when all is as thou wouldn't have it, to fear and suspect the worst. "
Desiderius Erasmus
Prosperity
Worst
Wisdom
" How do you rate works of genius? Partly by personal inclination, partly by accepted wisdom, partly by popularity. "
Robert Gottlieb
Rate
You
Wisdom
" He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe. "
Marcus Aurelius
Universe
He
Who
" Contrary to popular wisdom, the mark of a great meeting is not how short it is or whether it ends on time. The key is whether it ends with clarity and commitment from participants. "
Patrick Lencioni
Short
Wisdom
Commitment
" But life is long. And it is the long run that balances the short flare of interest and passion. "
Sylvia Plath
Long
Life
Short
" If I don't have wisdom, I can teach you only ignorance. "
Leo Buscaglia
I Can
Wisdom
You
" It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own. "
William Ralph Inge
Mankind
Little
How
" He whose wisdom cannot help him, gets no good from being wise. "
Quintus Ennius
Whose
Wise
Wisdom