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" Spiritual teachers and artists that have opened the eye of wisdom for the world, and visionary community builders, have influenced my work. "

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" I don't turn to greeting cards for wisdom and advice, but they are a fine reflection of the general drift of the culture. "

" In order to have wisdom we must have ignorance. "

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" 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

" To win without risk is to triumph without glory. "

Pierre Corneille

" We need to hear stories from older women. There's a wealth of wisdom and real resilience there, but they're silenced. "

" Start wide, expand further, and never look back. "

Arnold Schwarzenegger

" It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf. "

Walter Lippmann

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

" The gods do not need sacrifices, so what might one do to please them? Acquire wisdom, it seems to me, and do all the good in one's power to those humans who deserve it. "

Apollonius of Tyana

" It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see. "

Henry David Thoreau

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

Abbott L. Lowell

" 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. "

" Never accept ultimatums, conventional wisdom, or absolutes. "

Christopher Reeve

" When you give yourself, you receive more than you give. "

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

" People usually compare the computer to the head of the human being. I would say that hardware is the bone of the head, the skull. The semiconductor is the brain within the head. The software is the wisdom. And data is the knowledge. "

" Wisdom we know is the knowledge of good and evil, not the strength to choose between the two. "

" 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. "

" You can practice to attain knowledge, but you can't practice to attain wisdom. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Combine the extremes, and you will have the true center. "

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

" Man's wisdom is his best friend; folly his worst enemy. "

" I am thinking of taking a fifth wife. Why not? Solomon had a thousand wives and he is a synonym for wisdom. "

" Except for the grace of God, I would be nobody - and that grace is the opposite of merit - human labour, education or human wisdom. "

" Applause is a receipt, not a bill. "

" Champions invariably have fervent philosophical beliefs. Philosophy, in its simplest terms, means 'the love of wisdom.' "

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

" It takes a great man to give sound advice tactfully, but a greater to accept it graciously. "

Logan Pearsall Smith

" Protection, as we use the word in Buddhism, is actually wisdom, it's insight. Protection is seeing and knowing deeply that all things in our experience arise due to causes, due to conditions coming together in a certain way. "

Sharon Salzberg

" Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy. "

Ludwig van Beethoven