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" If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart. "
Nelson Mandela
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" Information is not knowledge, and knowledge is not wisdom. Reading - even browsing - an old book can yield sustenance denied by a database search. Patience is a virtue, gluttony a sin. "
James Gleick
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" Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable. "
Sydney J. Harris
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" Discipline is wisdom and vice versa. "
M. Scott Peck
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" Sciences may be learned by rote, but wisdom not. "
Laurence Sterne
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" Cunning... is but the low mimic of wisdom. "
Plato
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" No single person can possess the wisdom to chart our course. "
Jonathan Schell
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" It used to be, it is accepted scientific wisdom the Earth is flat, and this heretic named Galileo was branded a denier. "
Ted Cruz
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" People don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're happy. "
Anton Chekhov
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" We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started. "
Henry Ward Beecher
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" 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
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" Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack. We give it orders which make no sense. "
Henry Miller
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" The United States has made serious mistakes in the conduct of its foreign affairs, which have had unfortunate repercussions long after the decisions were taken. "
Nelson Mandela
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" He who is taught to live upon little owes more to his father's wisdom than he who has a great deal left him does to his father's care. "
William Penn
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" The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom... in a clarification of life - not necessarily a great clarification, such as sects and cults are founded on, but in a momentary stay against confusion. "
Robert Frost
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" Let each know that for each the body, the mind and the soul have been freed to fulfill themselves. "
Nelson Mandela
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Mind
" It is like the seed put in the soil - the more one sows, the greater the harvest. "
Orison Swett Marden
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" Prison life, fortunately, I spent a lot of years, about 18 years with other prisoners, and, as I say, they enriched your soul. "
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" 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. "
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" Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom. "
Walter Benjamin
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" When the water starts boiling it is foolish to turn off the heat. "
Nelson Mandela
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" All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man. "
Henry David Thoreau
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" We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom. "
Stephen Vincent Benet
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" I love wisdom. And you can never be great at anything unless you love it. Not be in love with it, but love the thing, admire the thing. And it seems that if you love the thing, and you don't just want to possess it, it will find you. "
Maya Angelou
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" What if Barack Obama established a Presidential Advisory Committee that would meet once every couple of months, bringing together the former presidents for a conference in order to seek their collective wisdom? There is a wealth of experience in former presidents that generally goes untapped. "
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" I don't know that you're able to measure your aggregate wisdom as you go through life. I can't say that I ever feel that I'm sitting on top of a growing mound of wisdom. "
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" Everything in the world may be endured except continual prosperity. "
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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" The wheel that squeaks the loudest is the one that gets the grease. "
Josh Billings
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" The Divine wisdom has given us prayer, not as a means whereby to obtain the good things of earth, but as a means whereby we learn to do without them; not as a means whereby we escape evil, but as a means whereby we become strong to meet it. "
Frederick William Robertson
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" The titanic effort that has brought liberation to South Africa, and ensured the total liberation of Africa, constitutes an act of redemption for the black people of the world. "
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