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" Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy. "

Ludwig van Beethoven

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" We learn from each other. We learn from others' mistakes, from their experience, their wisdom. It makes it easier for us to come to better decisions in our own lives. "

" Man works outwardly and inwardly - after rest, he has energy; after energy, he needs repose; so, when we have given instruction for a time, we need instruction and must receive it, or the spirit faints and wisdom herself grows bitter. "

" The truth is not for all men, but only for those who seek it. "

" There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy. "

Friedrich Nietzsche

" The wisdom acquired with the passage of time is a useless gift unless you share it. "

Esther Williams

" 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. "

" 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. "

Jason Calacanis

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

" In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head. "

Arthur Schopenhauer

" Never give up, which is the lesson I learned from boxing. As soon as you learn to never give up, you have to learn the power and wisdom of unconditional surrender, and that one doesn't cancel out the other; they just exist as contradictions. The wisdom of it comes as you get older. "

Kris Kristofferson

" Instead of looking at life as a narrowing funnel, we can see it ever widening to choose the things we want to do, to take the wisdom we've learned and create something. "

" If you want to be found stand where the seeker seeks. "

" If you call failures experiments, you can put them in your resume and claim them as achievements. "

" The more you meditate on the laws of Moses, the more striking and brighter does their wisdom appear. "

John Quincy Adams

" In life, all good things come hard, but wisdom is the hardest to come by. "

" Wisdom cannot come by railroad or automobile or aeroplane, or be hurried up by telegraph or telephone. "

" Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit. "

" Conventional wisdom on government's role in inequality often has it backwards. Tax reforms have resulted in a more progressive federal income tax; government transfer payments have become less progressive. "

" It used to be, it is accepted scientific wisdom the Earth is flat, and this heretic named Galileo was branded a denier. "

" Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration. "

Thomas A. Edison

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

" A great memory is never made synonymous with wisdom, any more than a dictionary would be called a treatise. "

John Henry Newman

" Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two. A constant coming and going: wisdom lies in the momentary. "

" Never cut what you can untie. "

" But life is long. And it is the long run that balances the short flare of interest and passion. "

" Preconceived notions are the locks on the door to wisdom. "

" Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out. "

" People spend too much time finding other people to blame, too much energy finding excuses for not being what they are capable of being, and not enough energy putting themselves on the line, growing out of the past, and getting on with their lives. "

J. Michael Straczynski

" I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures. "

" Each of us has been put on earth with the ability to do something well. We cheat ourselves and the world if we don't use that ability as best we can. "

George Allen, Sr.