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" This age thinks better of a gilded fool Than of a threadbare saint in wisdom's school. "
Thomas Dekker
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" 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
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" Habit is the nursery of errors. "
Victor Hugo
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" It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters. "
Epictetus
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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. "
Susan Orlean
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" The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work. "
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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" Wisdom is a sacred communion. "
Victor Hugo
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" Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it. "
David Starr Jordan
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" There is a universal, intelligent, life force that exists within everyone and everything. It resides within each one of us as a deep wisdom, an inner knowing. We can access this wonderful source of knowledge and wisdom through our intuition, an inner sense that tells us what feels right and true for us at any given moment. "
Shakti Gawain
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" No one has a monopoly on truth, and science continues to advance. Yesterday's heresies may be tomorrow's conventional wisdom. "
Dean Ornish
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" Wisdom and goodness are twin-born, one heart must hold both sisters, never seen apart. "
William Dean Howells
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Never
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" Plodding wins the race. "
Aesop
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Plodding
Wins
" Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children. "
Khalil Gibran
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Children
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" A great memory is never made synonymous with wisdom, any more than a dictionary would be called a treatise. "
John Henry Newman
Never
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Made
" Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable. "
Franz Kafka
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" Our bodies are at once the receiving and transmitting stations for life itself. It is the highest wisdom to recognize this fact and train our bodies to render them sensitive and responsive to nature. art and religion. "
Ruth St. Denis
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Life
Nature
" I learned some valuable lessons about the legislative process, the importance of bipartisan cooperation and the wisdom of taking small steps to get a big job done. "
Hillary Clinton
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" Wisdom we know is the knowledge of good and evil, not the strength to choose between the two. "
John Cheever
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Strength
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" Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use. "
Thomas J. Watson
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" People don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're happy. "
Anton Chekhov
People
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Winter
" It is always our own self that we find at the end of the journey. The sooner we face that self, the better. "
Ella Maillart
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" Always keep an open mind and a compassionate heart. "
Phil Jackson
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" You must learn day by day, year by year to broaden your horizon. The more things you love, the more you are interested in, the more you enjoy, the more you are indignant about, the more you have left when anything happens. "
Ethel Barrymore
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You
Day
" I know more about what it's like to be elderly and infirm and kind of stupid, the way you get forgetful, but on the other hand I'm a littler, wiser, dare we say? The word 'wisdom' has kind of faded out of our vocabulary, but yeah, I'm a little wiser. "
John Updike
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Stupid
Kind
" Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late. "
Felix Frankfurter
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Never
Too
" If you were to offer a thirsty man all wisdom, you would not please him more than if you gave him a drink. "
Sophocles
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Drink
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" No single person can possess the wisdom to chart our course. "
Jonathan Schell
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" Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity. "
Og Mandino
Adversity
Always
Seed
" I'm always feeling like I'm lacking wisdom. This reassurance that one can ask God for that and it will happen is certainly reassuring to me. "
Francis Collins
Will
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Always
" We must expect reverses, even defeats. They are sent to teach us wisdom and prudence, to call forth greater energies, and to prevent our falling into greater disasters. "
Robert E. Lee
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" I don't think you can come into your wisdom until you have made mistakes on your own skin and felt them in reality of your own life. "
Elizabeth Gilbert
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