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" In order to have wisdom we must have ignorance. "
Theodore Dreiser
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" In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause. "
George Eliot
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" Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence and deem them like the Ark of the Covenant, too sacred to be touched. They ascribe to men of the preceding age a wisdom more than human and suppose what they did to be beyond amendment. "
Edmund Morgan
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" The online musical universe has become Balkanized, with many sites focusing on minute niches. That works well for reaching very specific demographics, which is wonderful for advertising, but it flies in the face of the common wisdom that people's tastes have become more diverse as music of any description has become a mouse-click away. "
Michael Azerrad
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" In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head. "
Arthur Schopenhauer
Heart
Wisdom
Work
" If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail. "
Abraham Maslow
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You
" Who is wise in love, love most, say least. "
Alfred Lord Tennyson
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" Where can we find greater structural clarity than in the wooden buildings of old? Where else can we find such unity of material, construction and form? here, the wisdom of whole generations is stored. "
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
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Unity
Clarity
" 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. "
Aristotle
Lying
Wisdom
Choice
" Knowledge is going to make you stronger. Knowledge is going to let you control your life. Knowledge is going to give you the wisdom to teach their children. Knowledge is the thing that makes you smile in the face of disaster. "
Avery Brooks
Children
Wisdom
Life
" We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us. "
Marcel Proust
Journey
Wisdom
Us
" The problem lies with us: we've become addicted to experts. We've become addicted to their certainty, their assuredness, their definitiveness, and in the process, we have ceded our responsibility, substituting our intellect and our intelligence for their supposed words of wisdom. "
Noreena Hertz
Us
Intelligence
Wisdom
" War involves in its progress such a train of unforeseen circumstances that no human wisdom can calculate the end; it has but one thing certain, and that is to increase taxes. "
Thomas Paine
Progress
War
Human
" Everyone has always underestimated a company headquartered in Salt Lake City, Utah. The New York boys thought they could take me on, that nobody out here has any knowledge or wisdom. "
Jon Huntsman, Sr.
Wisdom
New York
Me
" 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. "
Doris Lessing
Wisdom
Beginning
End
" Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world. "
Archimedes
Long
Enough
Me
" Discipline is wisdom and vice versa. "
M. Scott Peck
Wisdom
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Discipline
" Our civilization is still in a middle stage, scarcely beast, in that it is no longer wholly guided by instinct; scarcely human, in that it is not yet wholly guided by reason. "
Theodore Dreiser
Beast
Stage
Reason
" It is impossible to love and to be wise. "
Francis Bacon
Love
To Love
Wisdom
" Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. "
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Wisdom
Lead
" The greatest wisdom is to realize one's lack of it. "
Constantin Stanislavski
Lack
Realize
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" The truth is not for all men, but only for those who seek it. "
Ayn Rand
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Truth Is
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" Wise men make more opportunities than they find. "
Francis Bacon
Men
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Wise
" Everything important always begins from something trivial. "
Donald Hall
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Always
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" Women are stronger than men - they do not die of wisdom. "
James Stephens
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" The final wisdom of life requires not the annulment of incongruity but the achievement of serenity within and above it. "
Reinhold Niebuhr
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Serenity
" We need to hear stories from older women. There's a wealth of wisdom and real resilience there, but they're silenced. "
Hannah Gadsby
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" Always keep an open mind and a compassionate heart. "
Phil Jackson
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Heart
" Women's strength, women's industry, women's wisdom are humankind's greatest untapped resource. The challenge then for U.N. Women is to show our diverse constituencies how this resource can be effectively tapped in ways that benefit us all. "
Michelle Bachelet
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" Wisdom is nothing but a preparation of the soul, a capacity, a secret art of thinking, feeling and breathing thoughts of unity at every moment of life. "
Herman Hesse
Life
Moment
Thoughts
" Multicolored stones and paintings, walkways, and theaters are useless in a city unless it also contains wisdom and law. Such things are the subject of wisdom and law, not equivalent to them. "
Apollonius of Tyana
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Useless