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" If the world were perfect, it wouldn't be. "

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Soren Kierkegaard

" It was impossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much. "

" I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures. "

" The sweetest of all sounds is praise. "

" To win without risk is to triumph without glory. "

Pierre Corneille

" People don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're happy. "

" Discipline is wisdom and vice versa. "

" What is the price of experience? Do men buy it for a song? Or wisdom for a dance in the street? No, it is bought with the price of all the man hath, his house, his wife, his children. "

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

" I think I got a lot of life skills; I got a lot of wisdom; I've seen a lot of bad things happen to a lot of good people. "

" I'd love to spend more time on the Isle of Man. I love the anonymity of putting on a boiler suit and going down to buy parts for the compressor. And Norman Wisdom's a neighbour; I salute him occasionally. "

John Rhys-Davies

" It is much more difficult to measure nonperformance than performance. "

Harold S. Geneen

" Contrary to popular wisdom, the mark of a great meeting is not how short it is or whether it ends on time. The key is whether it ends with clarity and commitment from participants. "

Patrick Lencioni

" Never give up, which is the lesson I learned from boxing. As soon as you learn to never give up, you have to learn the power and wisdom of unconditional surrender, and that one doesn't cancel out the other; they just exist as contradictions. The wisdom of it comes as you get older. "

Kris Kristofferson

" All of us, at certain moments of our lives, need to take advice and to receive help from other people. "

" While people are quick to praise the wisdom of the crowd, being an old-school journalist, I look at the wisdom of the crowd and know it can quickly turn into a mob mentality. "

Jason Calacanis

" Cunning... is but the low mimic of wisdom. "

" Wisdom sails with wind and time. "

" If you believe the doctors, nothing is wholesome; if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent; if you believe the military, nothing is safe. "

" I just want to thank everyone who made this day necessary. "

" 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. "

" The Founding Fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents. So they provided jails called schools, equipped with tortures called an education. "

" Justice Scalia was a lion of the law. Agree or disagree with him, all of his colleagues on the bench shared his wisdom and his humor. And like them, I miss him. "

" Education makes us more stupid than the brutes. A thousand voices call to us on every hand, but our ears are stopped with wisdom. "

" Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn't be done. "

" A lot of guys go, 'Hey, Yog, say a Yogi-ism.' I tell 'em, 'I don't know any.' They want me to make one up. I don't make 'em up. I don't even know when I say it. They're the truth. And it is the truth. I don't know. "

" Preconceived notions are the locks on the door to wisdom. "

" My company survives because I've learned to respect the ideas of people younger than me and recognize when my wisdom is obsolete. "

Robert Kiyosaki

" You want people walking away from the conversation with some kernel of wisdom or some kind of impact. "

Harry Dean Stanton

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