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" My mom calls me an older soul because, growing up, she taught me stuff real early. Now I spend most of my time chasing wisdom, chasing understanding. "

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" I reject most conventional wisdom. "

Conventional Wisdom

" In complete darkness we are all the same, it is only our knowledge and wisdom that separates us, don't let your eyes deceive you. "

" I don't turn to greeting cards for wisdom and advice, but they are a fine reflection of the general drift of the culture. "

" Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech. "

" Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it. "

Rabindranath Tagore

" You've got to go out on a limb sometimes because that's where the fruit is. "

" 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. "

" Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself. "

Marcus Tullius Cicero

" In an era in which war and terrorism - at home and abroad - are often based on racial, religious and ethnic differences, rediscovering the wisdom of love and compassion may help us increase our survival at a time when an increasingly divided country and world so badly need it. "

" The philosophy of life is this: Life is not a struggle, not a tension... Life is bliss. It is eternal wisdom, eternal existence. "

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

" Appearances are often deceiving. "

" We are wiser than we know. "

Ralph Waldo Emerson

" 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. "

" Every silver lining has a cloud. "

" 'Swan,' by Mary Oliver. Poems and prose. Reading from this book is as if visiting a very wise friend. There is wisdom and welcoming kindness on every page. "

" You want people walking away from the conversation with some kernel of wisdom or some kind of impact. "

Harry Dean Stanton

" You should never ask a horse or an actor to do something they cannot do. Wisdom will teach you to find out what they can do and then make it easy for them. "

Tommy Lee Jones

" 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. "

" What's unique about the Mormon Church is that it encourages inquiry. I really do think my research and religion are all on the same page. I never could have come up with the notion of disruptive innovations, which went against a lot of conventional wisdom, if I hadn't been raised to always be asking questions. "

Clayton M. Christensen

" Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. And don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines. "

Richard M. Nixon

" 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

" Experience is knowledge; but knowledge, when it is sought only as a material resource, is not always a blessing. Experience is wisdom; but wisdom, with those who lack vision, is not always power. Experience is tolerance; but tolerance, when it is induced by apathy, is not in the least a virtue. "

" Science investigates; religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power; religion gives man wisdom which is control. "

Martin Luther King, Jr.

" There is no knowledge, no light, no wisdom that you are in possession of, but what you have received it from some source. "

" I am not the first Buddha who came upon Earth, nor shall I be the last. In due time, another Buddha will arise in the world - a Holy One, a supremely enlightened One, endowed with wisdom in conduct, auspicious, knowing the universe, an incomparable leader of men, a master of angels and mortals. "

" Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack. We give it orders which make no sense. "

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

Arianna Huffington

" Tis but a part we see, and not a whole. "

" Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess, and yet all the honesty in the world ain't lawful tender for a loaf of bread. "