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" It is much more difficult to measure nonperformance than performance. "

Harold S. Geneen

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" Commitment is an act, not a word. "

Jean-Paul Sartre

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

Louis D. Brandeis

" In complete darkness we are all the same, it is only our knowledge and wisdom that separates us, don't let your eyes deceive you. "

" Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own. "

" 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

" As you walk in God's divine wisdom, you will surely begin to see a greater measure of victory and good success in your life. "

" Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another. "

" Thinking is not enough. There is no final enough of wisdom, experience - any... thing. "

William S. Burroughs

" It is astonishing what force, purity, and wisdom it requires for a human being to keep clear of falsehoods. "

Margaret Fuller

" When I was born, the wisdom was that homosexuality was an illness; that it was caused largely by somebody's mother, and a distorted relationship with the mother. And now, as I live my life - married to a husband, with kids - it's an identity. "

" If an idea is indeed sensible, it will eventually become just part of the accepted wisdom. "

" 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. "

" Mainstream media tend to just mouth the conventional wisdom, to see everything through the filter of right and left. "

Arianna Huffington

" Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency. "

" I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge. "

Igor Stravinsky

" We are wiser than we know. "

Ralph Waldo Emerson

" There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart. "

Charles Dickens

" When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield. "

" A mouse does not rely on just one hole. "

" 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. "

Ethel Barrymore

" In my definition of consciousness, consciousness is the same thing as life. What wisdom traditions also call spirit. "

" Wisdom cannot come by railroad or automobile or aeroplane, or be hurried up by telegraph or telephone. "

" 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. "

Travis Bradberry

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

" With pride, there are many curses. With humility, there come many blessings. "

Ezra Taft Benson

" Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech. "

" Wisdom begins in wonder. "

" There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still. "

Franklin D. Roosevelt

" Irony is the gaiety of reflection and the joy of wisdom. "