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" It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf. "

Walter Lippmann

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" If you do not express your own original ideas, if you do not listen to your own being, you will have betrayed yourself. "

" Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it. "

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" Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it. "

George Santayana

" I knew that I had it tough compared to children around me. But I felt like I needed it. I think I had the wisdom as a child to know that it would help me later on. "

" One of the best pieces of wisdom I ever got is you work because you work, meaning you work because you're saying yes to things, and you're connecting with people. "

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" Ages when custom is unsettled are necessarily ages of prophecy. The moralist cannot teach what is revealed; he must reveal what can be taught. He has to seek insight rather than to preach. "

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" Look around for a place to sow a few seeds. "

" 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. "

" The best way to obtain truth and wisdom is not to ask from books, but to go to God in prayer, and obtain divine teaching. "

Joseph Smith, Jr.

" I'm always feeling like I'm lacking wisdom. This reassurance that one can ask God for that and it will happen is certainly reassuring to me. "

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" If you believe the doctors, nothing is wholesome; if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent; if you believe the military, nothing is safe. "

" My own life is wonderful, but if I had to live the life of someone else, I'd gladly choose that of Julia Child or Dr. Seuss: two outrageously original people, each of whom fashioned an idiosyncratic wisdom, passion for life, and sense of humor into an art form that anyone and everyone could savor. "

" We humans have lost the wisdom of genuinely resting and relaxing. We worry too much. We don't allow our bodies to heal, and we don't allow our minds and hearts to heal. "

Thich Nhat Hanh

" When you betray somebody else, you also betray yourself. "

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" Children also have artistic ability, and there is wisdom in there having it! The more helpless they are, the more instructive are the examples they furnish us; and they must be preserved free of corruption from an early age. "

" Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of. "

Benjamin Franklin

" Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain. "

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

" Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well. "

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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" I always want to be a messenger, a person that, you know, that's not afraid to pass on wisdom. "

" The tendency of the casual mind is to pick out or stumble upon a sample which supports or defies its prejudices, and then to make it the representative of a whole class. "

Walter Lippmann

" Our ascendancy of the past two centuries - first Europe and then the U.S. - has bred a western-centric mentality: the West is the fount of all wisdom. We think of ourselves as open-minded, but our sense of superiority has closed our minds. We never entertained the idea that China could surpass the U.S. "

" Wisdom consists not so much in knowing what to do in the ultimate as knowing what to do next. "

" The truest wisdom is a resolute determination. "

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" The final wisdom of life requires not the annulment of incongruity but the achievement of serenity within and above it. "

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" The key to wisdom is this - constant and frequent questioning, for by doubting we are led to question and by questioning we arrive at the truth. "

" 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. "

" Whenever you argue with another wiser than yourself in order that others may admire your wisdom, they will discover your ignorance. "