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" The idea of victimage is a dreadful thing, a product of a safe middle-class perspective. What people who are not safe develop is a tragic wisdom, a wisdom that embraces contradiction and seeks a sense of balance rather than going to extremes. "

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" 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. "

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" 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. "

" Trickster stories are pleasurable, contradictory, annoying, abrasive. They're powerful, transformational acts of liberation because they are not nailed down to the real, to the representation of something in the world. "

" Whenever you argue with another wiser than yourself in order that others may admire your wisdom, they will discover your ignorance. "

" Everything in the world may be endured except continual prosperity. "

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" The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing. "

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

" Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of. "

" A thought transfixed me: for the first time in my life, I saw the truth as it is set into song by so many poets, proclaimed as the final wisdom by so many thinkers. The truth - that love is the ultimate and the highest goal to which man can aspire. "

" Naanabozho was the first tribal trickster on the earth. "

" The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds. "

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" For the Holy Ghost blesses us with optimism and wisdom at times of challenge that we simply cannot muster on our own. "

" Today's mighty oak is just yesterday's nut, that held its ground. "

" Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom. "

Marcus Tullius Cicero

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" Kindness is wisdom. "

Philip James Bailey

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" Please all, and you will please none. "

" Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours. "

" The soul's joy lies in doing. "

" And I pray thee, loving Jesus, that as Thou hast graciously given me to drink in with delight the words of Thy knowledge, so Thou wouldst mercifully grant me to attain one day to Thee, the fountain of all wisdom and to appear forever before Thy face. "

Venerable Bede

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" When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield. "

" Sciences may be learned by rote, but wisdom not. "

" This age thinks better of a gilded fool Than of a threadbare saint in wisdom's school. "

" The stupidity of people comes from having an answer for everything. The wisdom of the novel comes from having a question for everything. "

" Women's strength, women's industry, women's wisdom are humankind's greatest untapped resource. The challenge then for U.N. Women is to show our diverse constituencies how this resource can be effectively tapped in ways that benefit us all. "

" What could be more lonely than to be enveloped in silence, to be the last of your people to speak your native tongue, to have no way to pass on the wisdom of the elders, to anticipate the promise of the children. This tragic fate is indeed the plight of someone somewhere roughly every two weeks. "

" The woods were a boon; all too often, the forest offered danger and mystery. Yet it could be liberating. If you entered that wild place on its own terms, you might be accorded wisdom. "

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

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" We are wiser than we know. "

" Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment. "

" The most excellent and divine counsel, the best and most profitable advertisement of all others, but the least practiced, is to study and learn how to know ourselves. This is the foundation of wisdom and the highway to whatever is good. "