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" O, what a tangled web we weave when first we practise to deceive! "

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" Let me warn you, if you start chasing after views, you'll be left without bread and without views. "

" Wisdom is nothing but a preparation of the soul, a capacity, a secret art of thinking, feeling and breathing thoughts of unity at every moment of life. "

" If fortune favors you do not be elated; if she frowns do not despond. "

" If you have a vaccine or an antidote that people can benefit from, you're not going to want to keep it to yourself. You're going to want to spread that wisdom or whatever to as many people as you can, so everybody can benefit from it. "

" India is known for its sobriety and wisdom, balanced and sensible thinking. We need strong institutions and we need good governance in the country. "

" The greater the step forward in knowledge, the greater is the one taken backward in search of wisdom. "

Stephen Gardiner

" I'd rather regret the things I've done than regret the things I haven't done. "

" Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information? "

" Alas, those six unfortunate souls who have made their way through my books know that every one of them is about Emerson and Thoreau and their dark counters, Melville and Emily Dickinson. Try as I might, I can't get their inspirations, their challenges and sentences and wisdom and questions out of my head. "

" The soul's joy lies in doing. "

Percy Bysshe Shelley

" The idea of victimage is a dreadful thing, a product of a safe middle-class perspective. What people who are not safe develop is a tragic wisdom, a wisdom that embraces contradiction and seeks a sense of balance rather than going to extremes. "

" Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment. "

" Always keep an open mind and a compassionate heart. "

" Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain. "

" In my definition of consciousness, consciousness is the same thing as life. What wisdom traditions also call spirit. "

" I think we do need to try to not just rely on the central bank to, in its wisdom, adjust interest rates, but allow for people to avoid being exposed to inflation risk. "

Robert J. Shiller

" Your aim will be knowledge and wisdom, not the reflected glamour of fame. "

Abbott L. Lowell

" We all admire the wisdom of people who come to us for advice. "

" Cunning... is but the low mimic of wisdom. "

" Please all, and you will please none. "

" The more I work with the body, keeping my assumptions in a temporary state of reservation, the more I appreciate and sympathize with a given disease. The body no longer appears as a sick or irrational demon, but as a process with its own inner logic and wisdom. "

George MacDonald

" They are few in the midst of an overwhelming mass of brute force, and their submission is wisdom; but for a nation like England to submit to be robbed by any invader who chooses to visit her shores seemed to me to be nonsense. "

" A rusty nail placed near a faithful compass, will sway it from the truth, and wreck the argosy. "

" Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another. "

" Wisdom is the quality that keeps you from getting into situations where you need it. "

" After 25-plus years as a lawyer, prosecutor, and defense attorney, I have developed a deep appreciation for both the wisdom of the law and the role that jurists play in framing the rights and responsibilities that define our society. "

" The clouds may drop down titles and estates, and wealth may seek us, but wisdom must be sought. "

" When I was born, the wisdom was that homosexuality was an illness; that it was caused largely by somebody's mother, and a distorted relationship with the mother. And now, as I live my life - married to a husband, with kids - it's an identity. "

" Until there are tangible metrics for quantifying the real value of a token's utility, the gap between value and valuation will continue to defy conventional wisdom and conventional valuation methods. "

William Mougayar