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" Swim upstream. Go the other way. Ignore the conventional wisdom. "

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" My own life is wonderful, but if I had to live the life of someone else, I'd gladly choose that of Julia Child or Dr. Seuss: two outrageously original people, each of whom fashioned an idiosyncratic wisdom, passion for life, and sense of humor into an art form that anyone and everyone could savor. "

" To know one's self is wisdom, but not to know one's neighbors is genius. "

" However glorious an action in itself, it ought not to pass for great if it be not the effect of wisdom and intention. "

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" Spending two years on my uncle's ranch in Montana as a young man gave me the wisdom and the thrust to do westerns. "

" Global security can be formed or threatened by heads of state whose wisdom, folly and obsessions shape global events. But often it is the security practitioners, those rarely in the headlines but whose craft and energy quietly break new ground, who keep us safe or put us in peril. "

" Every speaker has a mouth; An arrangement rather neat. Sometimes it's filled with wisdom. Sometimes it's filled with feet. "

" If you do not express your own original ideas, if you do not listen to your own being, you will have betrayed yourself. "

" The final wisdom of life requires not the annulment of incongruity but the achievement of serenity within and above it. "

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" 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

" Wisdom denotes the pursuing of the best ends by the best means. "

Francis Hutcheson

" It is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor. "

Michel de Montaigne

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

" I'm particularly interested in black swan events: unprecedented surprises that destroy the conventional wisdom about how the world works. "

Paolo Bacigalupi

" 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. "

" I praise loudly. I blame softly. "

Catherine the Great

" If I am fool, it is, at least, a doubting one; and I envy no one the certainty of his self-approved wisdom. "

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

" Please all, and you will please none. "

" Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next. "

" I always want to be a messenger, a person that, you know, that's not afraid to pass on wisdom. "

" If you're trying to achieve, there will be roadblocks. I've had them; everybody has had them. But obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it. "

" I love wisdom. And you can never be great at anything unless you love it. Not be in love with it, but love the thing, admire the thing. And it seems that if you love the thing, and you don't just want to possess it, it will find you. "

" You want people walking away from the conversation with some kernel of wisdom or some kind of impact. "

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" When I was born, the wisdom was that homosexuality was an illness; that it was caused largely by somebody's mother, and a distorted relationship with the mother. And now, as I live my life - married to a husband, with kids - it's an identity. "

" We all have within us a deep wisdom, but sometimes we don't know we have it. "

" Pure, holy simplicity confounds all the wisdom of this world and the wisdom of the flesh. "

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" All that hullabaloo about somebody's net worth is just stupid, and it's made my life a lot more complex and difficult. "

" Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them in their mediocrity. "

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