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" In my life, I was always floating around the edge of the dark side and saying what if take it a little bit too far, and who says you have to stop there, and what's behind the next door. Maybe you gain a wisdom from examining those things. But after a while, you get too far down in the quicksand. "

Trent Reznor

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" It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone. "

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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" You must learn day by day, year by year to broaden your horizon. The more things you love, the more you are interested in, the more you enjoy, the more you are indignant about, the more you have left when anything happens. "

" We can't really digest food unless there's hunger. So we can't really assimilate spiritual wisdom unless we feel the need for it. "

" Influential people are never satisfied with the status quo. They're the ones who constantly ask, 'What if?' and 'Why not?' They're not afraid to challenge conventional wisdom, and they don't disrupt things for the sake of being disruptive; they do it to make things better. "

" Man's wisdom is his best friend; folly his worst enemy. "

" I'm a member of the 1960s generation. We didn't have any wisdom. "

" 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. "

" Around '93, '94, the conventional wisdom about the Internet was that it was a toy for academics and researchers. So it was very, very underestimated for about two years. "

" When in doubt, don't. "

" The more one pleases everybody, the less one pleases profoundly. "

Stendhal

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" Knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows. "

Alfred North Whitehead

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" 'Swan,' by Mary Oliver. Poems and prose. Reading from this book is as if visiting a very wise friend. There is wisdom and welcoming kindness on every page. "

" Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in the way in which the man of practical wisdom would determine it. "

" The woods were a boon; all too often, the forest offered danger and mystery. Yet it could be liberating. If you entered that wild place on its own terms, you might be accorded wisdom. "

" If you have the guts to keep making mistakes, your wisdom and intelligence leap forward with huge momentum. "

" A great memory is never made synonymous with wisdom, any more than a dictionary would be called a treatise. "

" We need to hear stories from older women. There's a wealth of wisdom and real resilience there, but they're silenced. "

" The weak have remedies, the wise have joys; superior wisdom is superior bliss. "

" I knew that I had it tough compared to children around me. But I felt like I needed it. I think I had the wisdom as a child to know that it would help me later on. "

" Hurricane Katrina overwhelmed levees and exploded the conventional wisdom about a shared American prosperity, exposing a group of people so poor they didn't have $50 for a bus ticket out of town. If we want to learn something from this disaster, the lesson ought to be: America's poor deserve better than this. "

" Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom. "

" A day of worry is more exhausting than a week of work. "

" We know there is a deep reservoir of food wisdom out there, or else humans would not have survived to the extent we have. Much of this food wisdom is worth preserving and reviving and heeding. "

" I foolishly thought that if I just 'made it' then everything would be okay. And everything wasn't okay. "

" The wisdom of the crowds has peaked. Web 3.0 is taking what we've built in Web 2.0 - the wisdom of the crowds - and putting an editorial layer on it of truly talented, compensated people to make the product more trusted and refined. "

" Who is wise in love, love most, say least. "

" I had more energy at 50. On the other hand, at 75, I've probably got a little more wisdom and good judgment than I had at 50 because I've got more experience. But I haven't really changed. I'm still driven by the same philosophy. "

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

" Any successful nominee should possess both the temperament to interpret the law and the wisdom to do so fairly. The next Supreme Court Justice should have a record of protecting individual rights and a strong willingness to put aside any political agenda. "