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" Giving opens the way for receiving. "

Florence Scovel Shinn

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" Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity. "

George S. Patton

" Until there are tangible metrics for quantifying the real value of a token's utility, the gap between value and valuation will continue to defy conventional wisdom and conventional valuation methods. "

William Mougayar

" Wisdom comes by disillusionment. "

George Santayana

Disillusionment

" He whose wisdom cannot help him, gets no good from being wise. "

" Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. And don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines. "

Richard M. Nixon

" A man begins cutting his wisdom teeth the first time he bites off more than he can chew. "

" Global security can be formed or threatened by heads of state whose wisdom, folly and obsessions shape global events. But often it is the security practitioners, those rarely in the headlines but whose craft and energy quietly break new ground, who keep us safe or put us in peril. "

" Don't gain the world and lose your soul; wisdom is better than silver or gold. "

" Lord, give us the wisdom to utter words that are gentle and tender, for tomorrow we may have to eat them. "

" It doesn't matter how much wisdom you have. If you don't have position, you have nothing. That's the tragedy of India. "

" It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen. "

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

" Wisdom is a kind of knowledge. It is knowledge of the nature, career, and consequences of human values. "

" Swim upstream. Go the other way. Ignore the conventional wisdom. "

" Wisdom is a sacred communion. "

" We are wiser than we know. "

Ralph Waldo Emerson

" Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself; the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache. "

Gilbert K. Chesterton

" The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations. "

Benjamin Disraeli

" Humanity's legacy of stories and storytelling is the most precious we have. All wisdom is in our stories and songs. A story is how we construct our experiences. At the very simplest, it can be: 'He/she was born, lived, died.' Probably that is the template of our stories - a beginning, middle, and end. This structure is in our minds. "

" We need to hear stories from older women. There's a wealth of wisdom and real resilience there, but they're silenced. "

" We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us. "

" Hurricane Katrina overwhelmed levees and exploded the conventional wisdom about a shared American prosperity, exposing a group of people so poor they didn't have $50 for a bus ticket out of town. If we want to learn something from this disaster, the lesson ought to be: America's poor deserve better than this. "

Michael Eric Dyson

" Whenever you argue with another wiser than yourself in order that others may admire your wisdom, they will discover your ignorance. "

" A prudent question is one-half of wisdom. "

" I'm exploring the maturity, the wisdom that just comes from having gone around the sun 50 times. My experience is, 'Oh, I'm never really going to get it right. I'm never going to get it done. But that's not the point here.' The point is the journey. "

Melissa Etheridge

" A promise made is a debt unpaid. "

Robert W. Service

" It is like the seed put in the soil - the more one sows, the greater the harvest. "

Orison Swett Marden

" Now all the knowledge and wisdom that is in creatures, whether angels or men, is nothing else but a participation of that one eternal, immutable and increased wisdom of God. "

" The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind. "

" I think in conventional magazine wisdom, you need to have a redesign every decade or so. "

" To think ill of mankind and not wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue. "

William Hazlitt