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" In the frank expression of conflicting opinions lies the greatest promise of wisdom in governmental action. "

Louis D. Brandeis

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" Wisdom comes by disillusionment. "

George Santayana

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" Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there. "

" 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. "

Bennie Thompson

" Instead of looking at life as a narrowing funnel, we can see it ever widening to choose the things we want to do, to take the wisdom we've learned and create something. "

" Most people see what they expect to see, what they want to see, what they've been told to see, what conventional wisdom tells them to see - not what is right in front of them in its pristine condition. "

Vincent Bugliosi

" 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. "

" I'll come to you with gifts of knowledge, wisdom and truth. "

" In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head. "

Arthur Schopenhauer

" Nobility of spirit has more to do with simplicity than ostentation, wisdom rather than wealth, commitment rather than ambition. "

" The higher we are placed, the more humbly we should walk. "

Marcus Tullius Cicero

" The enemy of the conventional wisdom is not ideas but the march of events. "

John Kenneth Galbraith

" 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

" The future has already arrived. It's just not evenly distributed yet. "

" How do you rate works of genius? Partly by personal inclination, partly by accepted wisdom, partly by popularity. "

Robert Gottlieb

" Champions invariably have fervent philosophical beliefs. Philosophy, in its simplest terms, means 'the love of wisdom.' "

" Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom. "

Walter Benjamin

" Life is a travelling to the edge of knowledge, then a leap taken. "

" 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. "

" Wisdom is found only in truth. "

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

" He was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the rich. "

" Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more. "

" A thought transfixed me: for the first time in my life, I saw the truth as it is set into song by so many poets, proclaimed as the final wisdom by so many thinkers. The truth - that love is the ultimate and the highest goal to which man can aspire. "

Viktor E. Frankl

" The greater the step forward in knowledge, the greater is the one taken backward in search of wisdom. "

Stephen Gardiner

" As we work to reweave the strands of connection, we can be supported by the wisdom and lovingkindness of others. "

Sharon Salzberg

" You must accept responsibility for your actions, but not the credit for your achievements. "

" Consider this point. It is a main point of true wisdom. Whenever there is an execution of purpose, there must be an agent. "

Adoniram Judson

" Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance. "

" Man is only great when he acts from passion. "

Benjamin Disraeli

" To keep your secret is wisdom; but to expect others to keep it is folly. "