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" Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them in their mediocrity. "

Robert Louis Stevenson

Most

Pocket

People

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Wisdom

" Few of the many wise apothegms which have been uttered have prevented a single foolish action. "

Thomas Babington Macaulay

Wise

Wisdom

Single

" Never say never, but the thought of electively cutting oneself is beyond my grasp, and I also object to it politically. Denying the lines on our faces makes a comment about age and wisdom I don't care to make. "

" The wisdom of God is so great that He also knows exactly what I would think and do under every possible circumstance and situation, and he placed me in that state of life and situation best suited for my salvation. "

" I am profoundly indebted to the legacy of Wilhelm Reich, whose monumental contribution to the understanding of energy was taught to me by Philip Curcurruto, a man of simple wisdom and compassionate heart. "

" One part of wisdom is knowing what you don't need anymore and letting it go. "

Jane Fonda

Knowing

Anymore

" It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit. "

Robert Louis Stevenson

Nature

Men

Beauty

" If you want a thing done well, do it yourself. "

" You could read Kant by yourself, if you wanted; but you must share a joke with some one else. "

Robert Louis Stevenson

Some

Must

" It's very hard to know what wisdom is. "

" To keep your secret is wisdom; to expect others to keep it is folly. "

William Samuel Johnson

Expect

Wisdom

Keep

" Meditation is the soul's perspective glass. "

" If you want to go east, don't go west. "

Ramakrishna

West

East

" Everything in the world may be endured except continual prosperity. "

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Prosperity

World

Wisdom

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

" The more one pleases everybody, the less one pleases profoundly. "

Stendhal

Wisdom

Less

" The correction of silence is what kills; when you know you have transgressed, and your friend says nothing, and avoids your eye. "

Robert Louis Stevenson

Know

Eye

Friend

" Spending two years on my uncle's ranch in Montana as a young man gave me the wisdom and the thrust to do westerns. "

" There is no progress whatever. Everything is just the same as it was thousands, and tens of thousands, of years ago. The outward form changes. The essence does not change. "

Robert Louis Stevenson

Progress

Everything

Changes

" Authority without wisdom is like a heavy ax without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish. "

Anne Bradstreet

Wisdom

Without

" A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them. "

" The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out. "

" While people are quick to praise the wisdom of the crowd, being an old-school journalist, I look at the wisdom of the crowd and know it can quickly turn into a mob mentality. "

" Strong characters are brought out by change of situation, and gentle ones by permanence. "

" The weak have remedies, the wise have joys; superior wisdom is superior bliss. "

" He who devotes sixteen hours a day to hard study may become at sixty as wise as he thought himself at twenty. "

" No one has a monopoly on truth, and science continues to advance. Yesterday's heresies may be tomorrow's conventional wisdom. "

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

" Now it is time to turn to an older wisdom that, while respecting material comfort and security as a basic right of all, also recognises that many of the most valuable things in life cannot be measured. "