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" Science is always discovering odd scraps of magical wisdom and making a tremendous fuss about its cleverness. "

Aleister Crowley

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Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

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

" It is impossible to love and to be wise. "

" We should draw deep into Madiba's wisdom. We should draw deep into Madiba's style of doing things in an orderly manner, in a purposeful manner, in a way where we focus. "

Cyril Ramaphosa

" It isn't what you do, but how you do it. "

" After all my possessions had been burned, God gave me the wisdom to return to Jerusalem. "

Shmuel Yosef Agnon

" Better than the strength of men and horses is our wisdom. "

" Wisdom has never made a bigot, but learning has. "

" The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it. "

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

Albert Einstein

" The Founding Fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents. So they provided jails called schools, equipped with tortures called an education. "

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

" The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are. "

" I know that inner wisdom is more precious than wealth. The more you spend it, the more you gain. "

" The word philosophy sounds high-minded, but it simply means the love of wisdom. If you love something, you don't just read about it; you hug it, you mess with it, you play with it, you argue with it. "

" Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life. "

" My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate. "

Thornton Wilder

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

" Intolerance is evidence of impotence. "

Aleister Crowley

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

" It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err. "

" We do not sit as a superlegislature to weigh the wisdom of legislation. "

William O. Douglas

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

" We live in a culture that doesn't acknowledge or validate human intuition and doesn't encourage us to rely on our intuitive wisdom. "

" 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

" 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

" When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust the action steps. "

" No party has a monopoly on wisdom. No democracy works without compromise. But when Governor Romney and his allies in Congress tell us we can somehow lower our deficit by spending trillions more on new tax breaks for the wealthy - well, you do the math. I refuse to go along with that. And as long as I'm President, I never will. "

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

" 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. "