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" Irony is the gaiety of reflection and the joy of wisdom. "
Anatole France
Wisdom
Irony
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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" All of us, at certain moments of our lives, need to take advice and to receive help from other people. "
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" 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
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Life
" It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important. "
Arthur Conan Doyle
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" Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that deceives them. "
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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" I'm not wise, but the beginning of wisdom is there; it's like relaxing into - and an acceptance of - things. "
Tina Turner
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" I believe that we are solely responsible for our choices, and we have to accept the consequences of every deed, word, and thought throughout our lifetime. "
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
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" Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom. "
Walter Benjamin
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Life
" For the Holy Ghost blesses us with optimism and wisdom at times of challenge that we simply cannot muster on our own. "
Sheri L. Dew
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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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" I have seen life from the top down and the bottom up. I know how it looks both ways. And I know there is wisdom and that there is hope. "
L. Ron Hubbard
Looks
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Know
" To comprehend the Wisdom of this Injunction the better, and explain the Duty before us, it should be considered, that Government is the only Means by which human Happiness can be attained. "
Charles Inglis
Better
Government
Happiness
" You have to find out what's right for you, so it's trial and error. You are going to be all right if you accept realistic goals for yourself. "
Teri Garr
Wisdom
Yourself
You
" What I've been able to do with my character, Madea, and the other characters, with the jokes, is use it as an anesthetic to get to the heart and soul of real issues. And what I've found on stage over the years is that, while making people laugh, I can drop in pearls of wisdom. "
Tyler Perry
People
Wisdom
Soul
" The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique. "
Walt Disney
More
Yourself
You
" Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it. "
Hermann Hesse
Wisdom
Find
Knowledge
" None knows the weight of another's burden. "
George Herbert
Wisdom
Weight
None
" When you betray somebody else, you also betray yourself. "
Isaac Bashevis Singer
Somebody
You
Wisdom
" If fortune favors you do not be elated; if she frowns do not despond. "
Ausonius
You
Favors
Fortune
" It is wisdom in prosperity, when all is as thou wouldn't have it, to fear and suspect the worst. "
Desiderius Erasmus
Prosperity
Worst
Wisdom
" There is something about a mortarboard that gives otherwise sane and normal people the overwhelming urge to burden you with advice. Some of them cannot help themselves. They were asked to do it by a committee. But one can only take so many pieces of wisdom before they all start to blur together. "
Alexandra Petri
Help
People
Start
" People don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're happy. "
Anton Chekhov
People
Wisdom
Winter
" Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself. "
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Wisdom
Advice
Yourself
" 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
Wisdom
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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
Admire
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You
" '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. "
Jessye Norman
Kindness
Wise
Wisdom
" It doesn't matter how much wisdom you have. If you don't have position, you have nothing. That's the tragedy of India. "
Rahul Gandhi
Tragedy
You
India
" No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free, no one ever will. Chance is the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign. "
Anatole France
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Chance
Government
" An education which does not cultivate the will is an education that depraves the mind. "
Anatole France
Will
Which
Mind
" Let deeds match words. "
Plautus
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Match
Words