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" Tis but a part we see, and not a whole. "

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" Most people see what they expect to see, what they want to see, what they've been told to see, what conventional wisdom tells them to see - not what is right in front of them in its pristine condition. "

Vincent Bugliosi

" 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. "

" Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength. "

" I don't know that you're able to measure your aggregate wisdom as you go through life. I can't say that I ever feel that I'm sitting on top of a growing mound of wisdom. "

" A monarchy conducted with infinite wisdom and infinite benevolence is the most perfect of all possible governments. "

" Pride is still aiming at the best houses: Men would be angels, angels would be gods. Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell; aspiring to be angels men rebel. "

" Never give up, which is the lesson I learned from boxing. As soon as you learn to never give up, you have to learn the power and wisdom of unconditional surrender, and that one doesn't cancel out the other; they just exist as contradictions. The wisdom of it comes as you get older. "

Kris Kristofferson

" The fall of dropping water wears away the Stone. "

" I think I got a lot of life skills; I got a lot of wisdom; I've seen a lot of bad things happen to a lot of good people. "

" So vast is art, so narrow human wit. "

" 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. "

" Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit. "

" I reject most conventional wisdom. "

Conventional Wisdom

" Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration. "

Thomas A. Edison

" Perhaps religious conscience upsets the designs of those who feel that the highest wisdom and authority comes from government. But from the beginning, this nation trusted in God, not man. Religious liberty is the first freedom in our Constitution. "

" Better than the strength of men and horses is our wisdom. "

" For myself, I think that those who cultivate wisdom and believe themselves able to instruct their fellow-citizens as to their interests are least likely to become partisans of violence. They are too well aware that to violence attach enmities and dangers, whereas results as good may be obtained by persuasion safely and amicably. "

" Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable. "

Sydney J. Harris

" It is the neglect of timely repair that makes rebuilding necessary. "

Richard Whately

" What happens is not as important as how you react to what happens. "

" There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain. "

" Authority without wisdom is like a heavy ax without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish. "

Anne Bradstreet

" Wisdom is knowing when you can't be wise. "

" Spectacular achievement is always preceded by unspectacular preparation. "

Robert H. Schuller

" A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left. "

" Wisdom is nothing but a preparation of the soul, a capacity, a secret art of thinking, feeling and breathing thoughts of unity at every moment of life. "

" Wisdom is found only in truth. "

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

" Rightly defined philosophy is simply the love of wisdom. "

Marcus Tullius Cicero

" Protection, as we use the word in Buddhism, is actually wisdom, it's insight. Protection is seeing and knowing deeply that all things in our experience arise due to causes, due to conditions coming together in a certain way. "

Sharon Salzberg

" Combine the extremes, and you will have the true center. "

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel