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" Most people see what they expect to see, what they want to see, what they've been told to see, what conventional wisdom tells them to see - not what is right in front of them in its pristine condition. "

Vincent Bugliosi

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" A mistake is simply another way of doing things. "

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" A proverb is the wisdom of many and the wit of one. "

" Today's mighty oak is just yesterday's nut, that held its ground. "

" Our great power does not mean we can do whatever we want whenever we want, nor should we assume we have all the wisdom and knowledge necessary to succeed. "

" The Florida Supreme Court wanted all the legal votes to be counted. The United States Supreme Court, on the other hand, did not want all the votes to be counted. "

" A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool. "

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Wise

" Your law may be perfect, your knowledge of human affairs may be such as to enable you to apply it with wisdom and skill, and yet without individual acquaintance with men, their haunts and habits, the pursuit of the profession becomes difficult, slow, and expensive. "

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

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

" Women's strength, women's industry, women's wisdom are humankind's greatest untapped resource. The challenge then for U.N. Women is to show our diverse constituencies how this resource can be effectively tapped in ways that benefit us all. "

" The enemy of the conventional wisdom is not ideas but the march of events. "

John Kenneth Galbraith

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Enemy

Wisdom

" If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart. "

" Follow your instincts. That's where true wisdom manifests itself. "

Oprah Winfrey

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" We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started. "

" Lord, give us the wisdom to utter words that are gentle and tender, for tomorrow we may have to eat them. "

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

William Samuel Johnson

Expect

Wisdom

Keep

" Many sophisticated, intelligent people lack wisdom and common sense. "

" Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom. "

" Theology in general seems to me a substitution of human ingenuity for divine wisdom. "

Julia Ward Howe

Theology

Wisdom

" Except for the grace of God, I would be nobody - and that grace is the opposite of merit - human labour, education or human wisdom. "

" Every indication of wisdom, taken from the effect, is equally an indication of power to execute what wisdom planned. "

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

" I am deeply impressed with the gravity and wisdom with which most federal judges approach the responsibility of sentencing. It is a difficult, soul-searching task at best. "

" Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking. "

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Wisdom

Character

Think

" Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time. "

" Be happy. It's one way of being wise. "

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

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