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" Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence and deem them like the Ark of the Covenant, too sacred to be touched. They ascribe to men of the preceding age a wisdom more than human and suppose what they did to be beyond amendment. "

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" Conventional wisdom on government's role in inequality often has it backwards. Tax reforms have resulted in a more progressive federal income tax; government transfer payments have become less progressive. "

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" Wisdom and knowledge are the most valuable things in the body. "

" Deliberately seek opportunities for kindness, sympathy, and patience. "

" The enemy of the conventional wisdom is not ideas but the march of events. "

John Kenneth Galbraith

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" Never find fault with the absent. "

" Turn your wounds into wisdom. "

" Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity. "

" He was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the rich. "

" Don't gain the world and lose your soul; wisdom is better than silver or gold. "

" Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world. "

Archimedes

Long

Enough

" The hours of folly are measured by the clock; but of wisdom, no clock can measure. "

" Trouble shared is trouble halved. "

" Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it. "

" I think I got a lot of life skills; I got a lot of wisdom; I've seen a lot of bad things happen to a lot of good people. "

" 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. "

" Knowing that you are going to die is, I suspect, the beginning of wisdom. "

" It is while you are patiently toiling at the little tasks of life that the meaning and shape of the great whole of life dawn on you. "

" The weak have remedies, the wise have joys; superior wisdom is superior bliss. "

" History, at its best, always tells us as much indirectly about ourselves as it does directly about our predecessors, and it is often most revealing when it deals with episodes and phenomena that we find repulsive. "

Edmund Morgan

Deals

Find

" To advise is not to compel. "

" When I wrote Living in the Light, I wanted to share about how I live my own life and to encourage people to tap into their own inner wisdom. "

" We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us. "

Marcel Proust

Journey

Wisdom

" In complete darkness, it is only knowledge and wisdom that separates us. "

Janet Jackson

Wisdom

Darkness

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

" Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young. "

" All things must come to the soul from its roots, from where it is planted. "

Saint Teresa of Avila

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Wisdom

Come

" Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking. "

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

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" Perhaps religious conscience upsets the designs of those who feel that the highest wisdom and authority comes from government. But from the beginning, this nation trusted in God, not man. Religious liberty is the first freedom in our Constitution. "

" Since human wisdom cannot secure us from accidents, it is the greatest effort of reason to bear them well. "

" 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. "