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" It is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor. "
Michel de Montaigne
Good
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Wisdom
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" You know, many people have said that I'm on the edge and I'm maverick for some of the big operations that I've done. I'm not at all. I pray; I ask God to give me wisdom, 'Should I do it?', guidance in terms of how to do it, who to consult with. All those kind of things are incredibly important. "
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" Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack. We give it orders which make no sense. "
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" Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face. "
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" It's not the having, it's the getting. "
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" Wisdom is knowing when you can't be wise. "
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" Knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows. "
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" The wisdom of age: don't stop walking. "
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" You can't sweep other people off their feet, if you can't be swept off your own. "
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" He dares to be a fool, and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom. "
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" I am not the first Buddha who came upon Earth, nor shall I be the last. In due time, another Buddha will arise in the world - a Holy One, a supremely enlightened One, endowed with wisdom in conduct, auspicious, knowing the universe, an incomparable leader of men, a master of angels and mortals. "
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" No single person can possess the wisdom to chart our course. "
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" Let us act on what we have, since we have not what we wish. "
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" Knowledge is marvelous, but wisdom is even better. "
Kay Redfield Jamison
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" Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it. "
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" The opinion which other people have of you is their problem, not yours. "
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" Everyone talks about how, in your 30s, all of these growing pains transition into wisdom and you feel more self-assured and confident, but I think I had a bit of a jump-start on that at 27. "
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You
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" Holy wisdom confounds Satan and all his wickednesses. "
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" He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak. "
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Argument
He
" As a parent and a citizen, I'll take a Bill Gates (or Warren Buffett) over Steve Jobs every time. If we must have billionaires, better they should ignore Jobs's example and instead embrace the morality and wisdom of the great industrialist-philanthropist Andrew Carnegie. "
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" Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe. "
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" What could be more lonely than to be enveloped in silence, to be the last of your people to speak your native tongue, to have no way to pass on the wisdom of the elders, to anticipate the promise of the children. This tragic fate is indeed the plight of someone somewhere roughly every two weeks. "
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" No one has a monopoly on truth, and science continues to advance. Yesterday's heresies may be tomorrow's conventional wisdom. "
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" The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom... in a clarification of life - not necessarily a great clarification, such as sects and cults are founded on, but in a momentary stay against confusion. "
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