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" I reject most conventional wisdom. "

Conventional Wisdom

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" The Democratic Party does not want anybody to have a photo ID because that would have a very negative impact on cheating! If you require a photo ID, that pretty much shuts out cheating. Well, it doesn't shut it out. It just makes it harder, and that's why they don't want it. "

" 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. "

" If you have the insight of non-self, if you have the insight of impermanence, you should make that insight into a concentration that you keep alive throughout the day. Then what you say, what you think, and what you do will then be in the light of that wisdom and you will avoid making mistakes and creating suffering. "

Thich Nhat Hanh

" Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one. "

Albert Einstein

" Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live. "

" Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength. "

" It is not who is right, but what is right, that is of importance. "

" Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom. "

Theodore Isaac Rubin

" I suppose we're not supposed to judge people. "

" It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err. "

" Global warming is a political issue. It is as much a political issue to the left as abortion is. It's as big a political issue as health care is. "

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

" Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe. "

" Sciences may be learned by rote, but wisdom not. "

Laurence Sterne

" Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher did more to liberate people by defeating the Soviet Union and freeing eastern Europe than the Obamas, the Clintons, and Kerrys of this world ever have. They were all on the wrong side of that debate. "

" You cannot keep your plan and have Obamacare at the same time. Obamacare, by definition, gets rid of your plan and replaces it with health care run by the federal government. "

" Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal. "

" In NFL preseason, the coaches don't use 10% of the playbook. They don't game plan. They do nothing. They don't give anything away for the regular season. They try to get everybody safely through it without anybody getting hurt. "

" The opinion which other people have of you is their problem, not yours. "

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

" Perhaps too much of everything is as bad as too little. "

" Given the unprecedented ignorance of the Bible in contemporary America, it is likely that more young Americans will only know the Noah of 'Noah.' We can only hope that the film offers even a fraction of the wisdom of the original. "

" Wisdom and goodness are twin-born, one heart must hold both sisters, never seen apart. "

William Dean Howells

" The American people don't want Obamacare. It has been forced on the American people, despite the fact that Democrats no longer control the House. "

" I am thinking of taking a fifth wife. Why not? Solomon had a thousand wives and he is a synonym for wisdom. "

" If liberalism discredited itself, Obama woulda never gotten elected, and the New Deal woulda gone by the wayside, and LBJ woulda never gotten the Great Society. Liberalism does not discredit itself. It has to be explained and beaten back. "

" Some coaches pray for wisdom. I pray for 260-pound tackles. They'll give me plenty of wisdom. "

" The American dream has now morphed into an expectation. And if it isn't provided, or if it doesn't happen, then people feel cheated. "

" Obama hasn't lost his standing because of tricks played by the Republicans. He hasn't lost his standing because the media's not fair to him. He hasn't lost his standing or his approval number because the media spent four years attacking him like they did George W. Bush. This is all on him. "

" Christian, learn from Christ how you ought to love Christ. Learn a love that is tender, wise, strong; love with tenderness, not passion, wisdom, not foolishness, and strength, lest you become weary and turn away from the love of the Lord. "