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" The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while. "

Albert Einstein

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" This is what I learned: that everybody is talented, original and has something important to say. "

" The truest wisdom is a resolute determination. "

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" Lessons of wisdom have the most power over us when they capture the heart through the groundwork of a story, which engages the passions. "

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" Memory is the mother of all wisdom. "

" We cannot despair of humanity, since we ourselves are human beings. "

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" Sometimes I am happy and sometimes not. I am, after all, a human being, you know. And I am glad that we are sometimes happy and sometimes not. You get your wisdom working by having different emotions. "

" I am not the first Buddha who came upon Earth, nor shall I be the last. In due time, another Buddha will arise in the world - a Holy One, a supremely enlightened One, endowed with wisdom in conduct, auspicious, knowing the universe, an incomparable leader of men, a master of angels and mortals. "

" A mistake is simply another way of doing things. "

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" Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions. "

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" Rediscovering the wisdom of love and compassion may help us survive at a time when an increasingly balkanized world so badly needs it. "

" Perhaps too much of everything is as bad as too little. "

" I believe that when an elder dies, a library is burned: vast sums of wisdom and knowledge are lost. Throughout the world libraries are ablaze with scant attention. "

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" Cynicism masquerades as wisdom, but it is the furthest thing from it. Because cynics don't learn anything. Because cynicism is a self-imposed blindness: a rejection of the world because we are afraid it will hurt us or disappoint us. Cynics always say 'no.' But saying 'yes' begins things. Saying 'yes' is how things grow. "

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" The sweetest of all sounds is praise. "

" If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it? "

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" It's very hard to know what wisdom is. "

" O, what a tangled web we weave when first we practise to deceive! "

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

" If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor. "

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" With pride, there are many curses. With humility, there come many blessings. "

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" I don't see the wisdom in modern politicians that I once saw in men like Dean Acheson, David Bruce, or George Marshall. In my day, the northeastern establishment dominated foreign policy formulation, but the composition and distribution of our population is very different today. "

Henry Kissinger

" Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. And don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines. "

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" We are shallow because we are 'mayabang,' ego driven, and do not have the humility to understand that we are only human, much too human to mistake knowledge for wisdom. "

" Central banks don't have divine wisdom. They try to do the best analysis they can and must be prepared to stand or fall by the quality of that analysis. "

" To keep your secret is wisdom; but to expect others to keep it is folly. "

" No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it. "

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

" The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations. "

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