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" I don't turn to greeting cards for wisdom and advice, but they are a fine reflection of the general drift of the culture. "

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" Discipline is wisdom and vice versa. "

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

" The problem lies with us: we've become addicted to experts. We've become addicted to their certainty, their assuredness, their definitiveness, and in the process, we have ceded our responsibility, substituting our intellect and our intelligence for their supposed words of wisdom. "

" I praise loudly. I blame softly. "

Catherine the Great

" The soul's joy lies in doing. "

Percy Bysshe Shelley

" An owl is traditionally a symbol of wisdom, so we are neither doves nor hawks but owls, and we are vigilant when others are resting. "

" One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know. "

John Kenneth Galbraith

" You can't sweep other people off their feet, if you can't be swept off your own. "

" But life is long. And it is the long run that balances the short flare of interest and passion. "

" By definition, the Singularity means that machines would be smarter than us, and, in their wisdom, they can innovate new technologies. The innovations would come so quickly, and increasingly quickly, that the innovation would make Moore's Law seem as antiquated as Hammurabi's Code. "

" Once you label me you negate me. "

Soren Kierkegaard

" In an era in which war and terrorism - at home and abroad - are often based on racial, religious and ethnic differences, rediscovering the wisdom of love and compassion may help us increase our survival at a time when an increasingly divided country and world so badly need it. "

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

" Who knows for what we live, and struggle, and die? Wise men write many books, in words too hard to understand. But this, the purpose of our lives, the end of all our struggle, is beyond all human wisdom. "

" Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds. "

" Cleverness is not wisdom. "

" A great memory is never made synonymous with wisdom, any more than a dictionary would be called a treatise. "

John Henry Newman

" If an idea is indeed sensible, it will eventually become just part of the accepted wisdom. "

" Community organizing is all about building grassroots support. It's about identifying the people around you with whom you can create a common, passionate cause. And it's about ignoring the conventional wisdom of company politics and instead playing the game by very different rules. "

" When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield. "

" We never understand how little we need in this world until we know the loss of it. "

James M. Barrie

" Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it. "

" In world mythology, there are countless examples of tragic characters whose greatest strength is also the source of their undoing. But the ancient Greeks and Romans also held the view that acceptance is the beginning of wisdom. "

" I know more about what it's like to be elderly and infirm and kind of stupid, the way you get forgetful, but on the other hand I'm a littler, wiser, dare we say? The word 'wisdom' has kind of faded out of our vocabulary, but yeah, I'm a little wiser. "

" Patience is the companion of wisdom. "

Saint Augustine

" I reject most conventional wisdom. "

Conventional Wisdom

" The woods were a boon; all too often, the forest offered danger and mystery. Yet it could be liberating. If you entered that wild place on its own terms, you might be accorded wisdom. "

" We humans have lost the wisdom of genuinely resting and relaxing. We worry too much. We don't allow our bodies to heal, and we don't allow our minds and hearts to heal. "

" I've always been afraid of video games - not afraid that I wouldn't like them, but that I would like them too much, and that after mere seconds in front of any particularly bright and absorbing game, I would abandon all ambition, turn into a mouth-breathing zombie, and develop a wide, sofa-shaped rear end. "