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" Many of us spend half of our time wishing for things we could have if we didn't spend half our time wishing. "
Alexander Woollcott
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" Contemplation and wisdom are highest achievements and man is not totally at home with them. "
Gabriel Marcel
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" If you were to offer a thirsty man all wisdom, you would not please him more than if you gave him a drink. "
Sophocles
Man
Drink
Him
" The most excellent and divine counsel, the best and most profitable advertisement of all others, but the least practiced, is to study and learn how to know ourselves. This is the foundation of wisdom and the highway to whatever is good. "
Pierre Charron
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Good
" 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. "
Paul Klee
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" The final wisdom of life requires not the annulment of incongruity but the achievement of serenity within and above it. "
Reinhold Niebuhr
Life
Achievement
Serenity
" Earthly wisdom is doing what comes naturally. Godly wisdom is doing what the Holy Spirit compels us to do. "
Charles Stanley
Us
Doing
Holy Spirit
" Spectacular achievement is always preceded by unspectacular preparation. "
Robert H. Schuller
Preparation
Wisdom
Always
" If an idea is indeed sensible, it will eventually become just part of the accepted wisdom. "
Nigel Farage
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Indeed
Idea
" Who knows for what we live, and struggle, and die? Wise men write many books, in words too hard to understand. But this, the purpose of our lives, the end of all our struggle, is beyond all human wisdom. "
Alan Paton
Struggle
Wisdom
Wise
" True wisdom is less presuming than folly. The wise man doubteth often, and changeth his mind; the fool is obstinate, and doubteth not; he knoweth all things but his own ignorance. "
Akhenaton
Mind
Fool
Ignorance
" Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own. "
Aesop
Your
Better
Others
" Set your course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship. "
Omar N. Bradley
Lights
Every
Wisdom
" The wisdom acquired with the passage of time is a useless gift unless you share it. "
Esther Williams
Useless
Wisdom
Time
" 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
Better
Wisdom
People
" Cunning... is but the low mimic of wisdom. "
Plato
Mimic
Low
Wisdom
" To keep your secret is wisdom; but to expect others to keep it is folly. "
Samuel Johnson
Others
Secret
Wisdom
" Every indication of wisdom, taken from the effect, is equally an indication of power to execute what wisdom planned. "
Thomas Reid
Power
Equally
Effect
" Second, this epic tale allows the audience to actually listen to the Native Americans and receive their wisdom. Spielberg conveys the respect for Native Americans that is normally lacking in Western films. "
Beau Bridges
Audience
Listen
Wisdom
" What makes Superman a hero is not that he has power, but that he has the wisdom and the maturity to use the power wisely. From an acting point of view, that's how I approached the part. "
Christopher Reeve
He
View
Hero
" There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives. "
Cyril Connolly
Beginning
Rest
Strong
" Wisdom is that apprehension of heavenly things to which the spirit rises through love. "
Honore de Balzac
Spirit
Love
Things
" Knowing that you are going to die is, I suspect, the beginning of wisdom. "
Terry Pratchett
Die
Beginning
You
" Slow and steady wins the race. "
Robert Lloyd
Race
Slow
Steady
" All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man. "
Henry David Thoreau
Wisdom
Some
Wise
" Discipline is wisdom and vice versa. "
M. Scott Peck
Wisdom
Vice Versa
Discipline
" You can practice to attain knowledge, but you can't practice to attain wisdom. "
Herbie Hancock
You
Attain
Wisdom
" The problem with Google is you have 360 degrees of omnidirectional information on a linear basis, but the algorithms for irony and ambiguity are not there. And those are the algorithms of wisdom. "
William Hurt
You
Problem
Information
" What if Barack Obama established a Presidential Advisory Committee that would meet once every couple of months, bringing together the former presidents for a conference in order to seek their collective wisdom? There is a wealth of experience in former presidents that generally goes untapped. "
Tony Campolo
Wisdom
Wealth
Together
" Perhaps too much of everything is as bad as too little. "
Edna Ferber
Bad
Wisdom
Too Much
" From the errors of others, a wise man corrects his own. "
Publilius Syrus
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Man