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" 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. "

John Burnside

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

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

" It is not who is right, but what is right, that is of importance. "

" It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone. "

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" The future has already arrived. It's just not evenly distributed yet. "

" Doubt the conventional wisdom unless you can verify it with reason and experiment. "

" 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. "

" Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in the way in which the man of practical wisdom would determine it. "

" The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out. "

" I'll come to you with gifts of knowledge, wisdom and truth. "

" Robots have already surpassed human beings in calculation and memory, but I have no doubt that the time will come when they will surpass in wisdom as well. "

" A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right. "

" Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life. "

" Come, come, leave business to idlers, and wisdom to fools: they have need of 'em: wit be my faculty, and pleasure my occupation, and let father Time shake his glass. "

" Hunted for sport by the rich, then driven from large tracts of its natural habitat by agricultural and housing development, the giant panda deserves better than to be scrubbed from conservation's ledger books through false accounting. "

" Your law may be perfect, your knowledge of human affairs may be such as to enable you to apply it with wisdom and skill, and yet without individual acquaintance with men, their haunts and habits, the pursuit of the profession becomes difficult, slow, and expensive. "

" Worldwide, enormous areas of peatland are still being lost to agricultural development, drainage schemes, overgrazing, and exploitation-based infrastructure development projects such as roads, electricity pylons, telephone masts and gas pipelines. "

" Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago. "

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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" Public opinion is no more than this: what people think that other people think. "

Alfred Austin

Opinion

People

" Contrary to conventional wisdom, the blue blazer's a bit of a loose cannon. A suit decided long ago what it wanted to be, and it doesn't want to hear your ideas, but a blue blazer only got around to half the job. So it leaves it up to you to find its bottoms. Gray slacks, blue jeans, patterns, white pants and different blue shades all work. "

" Influential people are never satisfied with the status quo. They're the ones who constantly ask, 'What if?' and 'Why not?' They're not afraid to challenge conventional wisdom, and they don't disrupt things for the sake of being disruptive; they do it to make things better. "

" It isn't what you do, but how you do it. "

" To think ill of mankind and not wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue. "

" Wisdom is that apprehension of heavenly things to which the spirit rises through love. "

" If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart. "

" There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still. "

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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