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" Pain makes man think. Thought makes man wise. Wisdom makes life endurable. "
John Patrick
Wisdom
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" If you have the insight of non-self, if you have the insight of impermanence, you should make that insight into a concentration that you keep alive throughout the day. Then what you say, what you think, and what you do will then be in the light of that wisdom and you will avoid making mistakes and creating suffering. "
Thich Nhat Hanh
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" The woods were a boon; all too often, the forest offered danger and mystery. Yet it could be liberating. If you entered that wild place on its own terms, you might be accorded wisdom. "
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" 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. "
Michelle Bachelet
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" Surely, God on high has not refused to give us enough wisdom to find ways to bring us an improvement in relations between the two great nations on earth. "
Mikhail Gorbachev
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" Turn your wounds into wisdom. "
Oprah Winfrey
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" There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain. "
Plato
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" A thought transfixed me: for the first time in my life, I saw the truth as it is set into song by so many poets, proclaimed as the final wisdom by so many thinkers. The truth - that love is the ultimate and the highest goal to which man can aspire. "
Viktor E. Frankl
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" Wisdom is the quality that keeps you from getting into situations where you need it. "
Doug Larson
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" Because you are women, people will force their thinking on you, their boundaries on you. They will tell you how to dress, how to behave, who you can meet and where you can go. Don't live in the shadows of people's judgement. Make your own choices in the light of your own wisdom. "
Amitabh Bachchan
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" By the time you've reached your sixties, you do know that one day you will die, and knowing that is at least the beginning of wisdom. "
Terry Pratchett
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" The superior man blames himself. The inferior man blames others. "
Don Shula
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" If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner. "
Omar N. Bradley
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" Today's mighty oak is just yesterday's nut, that held its ground. "
David Icke
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Today
" Mainstream media tend to just mouth the conventional wisdom, to see everything through the filter of right and left. "
Arianna Huffington
Filter
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Mouth
" It is astonishing what force, purity, and wisdom it requires for a human being to keep clear of falsehoods. "
Margaret Fuller
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" Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun. "
Franz Grillparzer
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" What happens is not as important as how you react to what happens. "
Ellen Glasgow
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" Every silver lining has a cloud. "
Mary Kay Ash
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" When I can look life in the eyes, grown calm and very coldly wise, life will have given me the truth, and taken in exchange - my youth. "
Sara Teasdale
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" There is something about a mortarboard that gives otherwise sane and normal people the overwhelming urge to burden you with advice. Some of them cannot help themselves. They were asked to do it by a committee. But one can only take so many pieces of wisdom before they all start to blur together. "
Alexandra Petri
Help
People
Start
" Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it. "
Henry Ward Beecher
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" India is known for its sobriety and wisdom, balanced and sensible thinking. We need strong institutions and we need good governance in the country. "
Pratibha Patil
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" Many sophisticated, intelligent people lack wisdom and common sense. "
Joyce Meyer
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" Don't taunt the alligator until after you've crossed the creek. "
Dan Rather
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" Wisdom sails with wind and time. "
John Florio
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Time
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" Wisdom consists not so much in knowing what to do in the ultimate as knowing what to do next. "
Herbert Hoover
Ultimate
Much
Knowing
" While I have no empirical evidence to back this up, I bet that the number of homosexual people per thousand has not fluctuated all that much over the centuries. I do not believe the dented wisdom my father used to extol, that homosexuality was a sure sign of a civilization in decline. "
Henry Rollins
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Back
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" Vanity can easily overtake wisdom. It usually overtakes common sense. "
Julian Casablancas
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" The truest wisdom is a resolute determination. "
Napoleon Bonaparte
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" I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge. "
Igor Stravinsky
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