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" I prefer the folly of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom. "

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" Let my skin and sinews and bones dry up, together with all the flesh and blood of my body! I welcome it! But I will not move from this spot until I have attained the supreme and final wisdom. "

" They are few in the midst of an overwhelming mass of brute force, and their submission is wisdom; but for a nation like England to submit to be robbed by any invader who chooses to visit her shores seemed to me to be nonsense. "

" The greatest virtue of man is perhaps curiosity. "

" Meditation is the soul's perspective glass. "

" There are very honest people who do not think that they have had a bargain unless they have cheated a merchant. "

" Everything important always begins from something trivial. "

" Doubt the conventional wisdom unless you can verify it with reason and experiment. "

" Since human wisdom cannot secure us from accidents, it is the greatest effort of reason to bear them well. "

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" 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. "

" If you want to be found stand where the seeker seeks. "

" Our bodies are at once the receiving and transmitting stations for life itself. It is the highest wisdom to recognize this fact and train our bodies to render them sensitive and responsive to nature. art and religion. "

" In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head. "

Arthur Schopenhauer

" It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters. "

" To know one's self is wisdom, but not to know one's neighbors is genius. "

" Practical wisdom is only to be learned in the school of experience. Precepts and instruction are useful so far as they go, but, without the discipline of real life, they remain of the nature of theory only. "

" It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see. "

Henry David Thoreau

" Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it. "

" Never find fault with the absent. "

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

" Through the years, I, like you, have experienced pressures and disappointments that would have crushed me had I not been able to draw upon a source of wisdom and strength far greater than my own. He has never forgotten or forsaken me, and I have come to know for myself that Jesus is the Christ and that this is His Church. "

" You need to have extraordinary wisdom to be the forerunner. "

" People usually compare the computer to the head of the human being. I would say that hardware is the bone of the head, the skull. The semiconductor is the brain within the head. The software is the wisdom. And data is the knowledge. "

" It isn't what you do, but how you do it. "

" Man is only great when he acts from passion. "

Benjamin Disraeli

" The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself a fool. "

" We are shallow because we are 'mayabang,' ego driven, and do not have the humility to understand that we are only human, much too human to mistake knowledge for wisdom. "

" It's the little details that are vital. Little things make big things happen. "