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" I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge. "
Igor Stravinsky
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Life
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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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" People don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're happy. "
Anton Chekhov
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" India is known for its sobriety and wisdom, balanced and sensible thinking. We need strong institutions and we need good governance in the country. "
Pratibha Patil
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" Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit. "
Elbert Hubbard
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" Not a single illegal immigrant should or need enter the United States, not one. Contrary to the common wisdom, the borders are easy to seal, and controlling entry is hardly totalitarian. "
Mark Helprin
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" When a thing is done, it's done. Don't look back. Look forward to your next objective. "
George C. Marshall
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" I haven't understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it. "
Igor Stravinsky
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" Big money is not a good thing for a little soul: it will only ensnare his feet, and he will fall to his ruin. Wealth is safe only for those who have a wealth of wisdom. "
Edwin Markham
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" The way you see people is the way you treat them, and the way you treat them is what they become. "
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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" The Church knew what the psalmist knew: Music praises God. Music is well or better able to praise him than the building of the church and all its decoration; it is the Church's greatest ornament. "
Igor Stravinsky
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Church
" Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment. "
Jim Rohn
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" They would need to be already wise, in order to love wisdom. "
Friedrich Schiller
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" The left has come to regard common sense - the traditional wisdom and folkways of the community - as an obstacle to progress and enlightenment. "
Christopher Lasch
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" In life, all good things come hard, but wisdom is the hardest to come by. "
Lucille Ball
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Life
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" The hours of folly are measured by the clock; but of wisdom, no clock can measure. "
William Blake
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Clock
Hours
" Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out. "
Iris Murdoch
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Saying
" A great memory is never made synonymous with wisdom, any more than a dictionary would be called a treatise. "
John Henry Newman
Never
Great
Made
" A monarchy conducted with infinite wisdom and infinite benevolence is the most perfect of all possible governments. "
Ezra Stiles
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Infinite
Perfect
" 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. "
Urjit Patel
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" When I was born, the wisdom was that homosexuality was an illness; that it was caused largely by somebody's mother, and a distorted relationship with the mother. And now, as I live my life - married to a husband, with kids - it's an identity. "
Andrew Solomon
Mother
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" Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children. "
Khalil Gibran
Wisdom
Children
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" Public opinion is no more than this: what people think that other people think. "
Alfred Austin
More
Opinion
People
" Of prosperity mortals can never have enough. "
Aeschylus
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" If men possessed wisdom, which stands in the same relation to the form of man as the sight to the eye, they would not cause any injury to themselves or to others; for the knowledge of truth removes hatred and quarrels, and prevents mutual injuries. "
Maimonides
Eye
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" Each of us has been put on earth with the ability to do something well. We cheat ourselves and the world if we don't use that ability as best we can. "
George Allen, Sr.
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Earth
Best
" As you walk down the fairway of life you must smell the roses, for you only get to play one round. "
Ben Hogan
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" Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it. "
Rabindranath Tagore
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Everything
Us
" The seat of knowledge is in the head; of wisdom, in the heart. We are sure to judge wrong, if we do not feel right. "
William Hazlitt
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" They whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed. "
William Cowper
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" If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise. "
William Butler Yeats
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