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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. "

F. Sionil Jose

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

" Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance. "

" We are shallow because we have become enslaved by gross materialism, the glitter of gold and its equivalents, for which reason we think that only the material goods of this earth can satisfy us and we must therefore grab as much as can while we are able. "

" Let us act on what we have, since we have not what we wish. "

John Henry Newman

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Since

" My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate. "

" 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. "

" Start wide, expand further, and never look back. "

Arnold Schwarzenegger

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" I think we do need to try to not just rely on the central bank to, in its wisdom, adjust interest rates, but allow for people to avoid being exposed to inflation risk. "

" No single person can possess the wisdom to chart our course. "

" Wit and playfulness represent a desperately serious transcendence of evil. Humor is both a form of wisdom and a means of survival. "

" Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself. "

" While people are quick to praise the wisdom of the crowd, being an old-school journalist, I look at the wisdom of the crowd and know it can quickly turn into a mob mentality. "

" War involves in its progress such a train of unforeseen circumstances that no human wisdom can calculate the end; it has but one thing certain, and that is to increase taxes. "

" Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. "

" Man's wisdom is his best friend; folly his worst enemy. "

" It is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor. "

" There is a trade off - as you grow older you gain wisdom but you lose spontaneity. "

" All things must come to the soul from its roots, from where it is planted. "

Saint Teresa of Avila

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" I reject most conventional wisdom. "

" All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man. "

" It is wisdom in prosperity, when all is as thou wouldn't have it, to fear and suspect the worst. "

" The word philosophy sounds high-minded, but it simply means the love of wisdom. If you love something, you don't just read about it; you hug it, you mess with it, you play with it, you argue with it. "

" No one has a monopoly on truth, and science continues to advance. Yesterday's heresies may be tomorrow's conventional wisdom. "

" The more one pleases everybody, the less one pleases profoundly. "

Stendhal

Wisdom

Less

" If you believe the doctors, nothing is wholesome; if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent; if you believe the military, nothing is safe. "

" Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. "