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" Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one. "

Albert Einstein

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

" It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen. "

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

" It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters. "

" Any successful nominee should possess both the temperament to interpret the law and the wisdom to do so fairly. The next Supreme Court Justice should have a record of protecting individual rights and a strong willingness to put aside any political agenda. "

Bennie Thompson

" I consider wisdom supernatural because it isn't taught by men - it's a gift from God. "

" The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe. "

Albert Einstein

" Come, come, leave business to idlers, and wisdom to fools: they have need of 'em: wit be my faculty, and pleasure my occupation, and let father Time shake his glass. "

William Congreve

" The opinion which other people have of you is their problem, not yours. "

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

" 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

" Strong characters are brought out by change of situation, and gentle ones by permanence. "

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

" Sciences may be learned by rote, but wisdom not. "

Laurence Sterne

" I praise loudly. I blame softly. "

Catherine the Great

" Please all, and you will please none. "

" True wisdom is less presuming than folly. The wise man doubteth often, and changeth his mind; the fool is obstinate, and doubteth not; he knoweth all things but his own ignorance. "

" I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out in a war fought with the atomic bomb. Perhaps two-thirds of the people of the earth will be killed. "

Albert Einstein

" Through the years, I, like you, have experienced pressures and disappointments that would have crushed me had I not been able to draw upon a source of wisdom and strength far greater than my own. He has never forgotten or forsaken me, and I have come to know for myself that Jesus is the Christ and that this is His Church. "

" Has fortune dealt you some bad cards. Then let wisdom make you a good gamester. "

Francis Quarles

" Economists often like startling theorems, results which seem to run counter to conventional wisdom. "

Joseph Stiglitz

" Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning. "

Albert Einstein

" Occurrences in this domain are beyond the reach of exact prediction because of the variety of factors in operation, not because of any lack of order in nature. "

Albert Einstein

" Every nation whose affairs betray a want of wisdom and stability may calculate on every loss which can be sustained from the more systematic policy of its wiser neighbors. "

" 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. "

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

" 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

" I'll come to you with gifts of knowledge, wisdom and truth. "

" Purity engenders Wisdom, Passion avarice, and Ignorance folly, infatuation and darkness. "

" What if Barack Obama established a Presidential Advisory Committee that would meet once every couple of months, bringing together the former presidents for a conference in order to seek their collective wisdom? There is a wealth of experience in former presidents that generally goes untapped. "

" The most excellent and divine counsel, the best and most profitable advertisement of all others, but the least practiced, is to study and learn how to know ourselves. This is the foundation of wisdom and the highway to whatever is good. "

" Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago. "

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe