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" Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun. "
Franz Grillparzer
Genius
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" 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. "
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" Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain. "
Khalil Gibran
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" Your aim will be knowledge and wisdom, not the reflected glamour of fame. "
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" Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own. "
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" It is like the seed put in the soil - the more one sows, the greater the harvest. "
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" Swim upstream. Go the other way. Ignore the conventional wisdom. "
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" There is a universal, intelligent, life force that exists within everyone and everything. It resides within each one of us as a deep wisdom, an inner knowing. We can access this wonderful source of knowledge and wisdom through our intuition, an inner sense that tells us what feels right and true for us at any given moment. "
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" Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency. "
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" Rarely promise, but, if lawful, constantly perform. "
William Penn
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Perform
Rarely
" If you were to offer a thirsty man all wisdom, you would not please him more than if you gave him a drink. "
Sophocles
Man
Drink
Him
" I love wisdom. And you can never be great at anything unless you love it. Not be in love with it, but love the thing, admire the thing. And it seems that if you love the thing, and you don't just want to possess it, it will find you. "
Maya Angelou
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You
" Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. "
Alfred Lord Tennyson
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" Never say never, but the thought of electively cutting oneself is beyond my grasp, and I also object to it politically. Denying the lines on our faces makes a comment about age and wisdom I don't care to make. "
Debra Winger
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" Conventional wisdom on government's role in inequality often has it backwards. Tax reforms have resulted in a more progressive federal income tax; government transfer payments have become less progressive. "
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Tax
" Prose talks and poetry sings. "
Franz Grillparzer
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Prose
" I think in conventional magazine wisdom, you need to have a redesign every decade or so. "
Timothy White
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" We can be knowledgable with other men's knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom. "
Michel de Montaigne
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" Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use. "
Thomas J. Watson
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" Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe. "
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" Full of wisdom are the ordinations of fate. "
Friedrich Schiller
Fate
Wisdom
Full
" The future has already arrived. It's just not evenly distributed yet. "
William Gibson
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Just
" Always keep an open mind and a compassionate heart. "
Phil Jackson
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Always
Heart
" The less you talk, the more you're listened to. "
Pauline Phillips
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More
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" If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart. "
Nelson Mandela
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Language
Heart
" Information is not knowledge, and knowledge is not wisdom. Reading - even browsing - an old book can yield sustenance denied by a database search. Patience is a virtue, gluttony a sin. "
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" Whatever one thinks of the wisdom of building a mosque near Ground Zero, this controversy now affords us an immense opportunity to examine who we are as a people. It provides us with the opportunity to get back to our foundational ideals, which have always stood as a beacon for the rest of the world. "
Hamza Yusuf
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" To win without risk is to triumph without glory. "
Pierre Corneille
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" Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity. "
Og Mandino
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" Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself. "
Khalil Gibran
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