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" He who is taught to live upon little owes more to his father's wisdom than he who has a great deal left him does to his father's care. "

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" Influential people are never satisfied with the status quo. They're the ones who constantly ask, 'What if?' and 'Why not?' They're not afraid to challenge conventional wisdom, and they don't disrupt things for the sake of being disruptive; they do it to make things better. "

Travis Bradberry

" In my definition of consciousness, consciousness is the same thing as life. What wisdom traditions also call spirit. "

" The biggest handicap in research is an ability to think outside the box. The handicap is being encumbered by all the conventional wisdom in a given field. "

" It's very hard to know what wisdom is. "

" We should draw deep into Madiba's wisdom. We should draw deep into Madiba's style of doing things in an orderly manner, in a purposeful manner, in a way where we focus. "

Cyril Ramaphosa

" 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. "

" Rediscovering the wisdom of love and compassion may help us survive at a time when an increasingly balkanized world so badly needs it. "

" Applause is a receipt, not a bill. "

" I have no agenda except to be funny. Neither I or the writers profess to offer any worldly wisdom. "

Julia Louis-Dreyfus

" Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake. "

Napoleon Bonaparte

" Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago. "

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. "

" Your art kind of changes as you get older, by nature of the fact that you're hopefully gaining wisdom and you're starting to watch things with a better overview. "

" Passion is a sort of fever in the mind, which ever leaves us weaker than it found us. "

" Once I turned 35, I got the bonus of some wisdom and began to accept life on its own terms. "

" Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom. "

Charles Spurgeon

" 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

" Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late. "

Felix Frankfurter

" Lord, bless me with the ability to achieve all that I can, and the wisdom to realize it doesn't all have to be by tomorrow! "

William Eardley IV

" What makes Superman a hero is not that he has power, but that he has the wisdom and the maturity to use the power wisely. From an acting point of view, that's how I approached the part. "

Christopher Reeve

" To light one candle to God and another to the Devil is the principle of wisdom. "

" Memory is the mother of all wisdom. "

" I am deeply impressed with the gravity and wisdom with which most federal judges approach the responsibility of sentencing. It is a difficult, soul-searching task at best. "

" The less you talk, the more you're listened to. "

Pauline Phillips

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

" Much reading is an oppression of the mind, and extinguishes the natural candle, which is the reason of so many senseless scholars in the world. "

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Martin H. Fischer

" Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences. "