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" 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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" What we call wisdom is the result of all the wisdom of past ages. Our best institutions are like young trees growing upon the roots of the old trunks that have crumbled away. "

" In the end, the real wisdom of menopause may be in questioning how fun or even sane this chore wheel called modern life actually is. "

" Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom. "

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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" While we see the course of the final abolition of human slavery is onward, & we give it the aid of our prayers & all justifiable means in our power, we must leave the progress as well as the result in his hands who sees the end; who chooses to work by slow influences; & with whom two thousand years are but as a single day. "

" Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or to keep one. "

" Conventional wisdom tells us we'll only be happier after a divorce if the marriage itself was a war zone. "

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

" 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. "

" The enemy of the conventional wisdom is not ideas but the march of events. "

John Kenneth Galbraith

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" The problem with Google is you have 360 degrees of omnidirectional information on a linear basis, but the algorithms for irony and ambiguity are not there. And those are the algorithms of wisdom. "

" The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique. "

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

" The education of a man is never completed until he dies. "

Robert E. Lee

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" The online musical universe has become Balkanized, with many sites focusing on minute niches. That works well for reaching very specific demographics, which is wonderful for advertising, but it flies in the face of the common wisdom that people's tastes have become more diverse as music of any description has become a mouse-click away. "

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

" I'm a member of the 1960s generation. We didn't have any wisdom. "

" Arianna Huffington has exercised her renowned wisdom to give journalism another boost along the ever busier Internet. Her blog site promises to be an interesting challenge for those of us lucky enough to be invited to participate with our occasional contributions. "

" Every speaker has a mouth; An arrangement rather neat. Sometimes it's filled with wisdom. Sometimes it's filled with feet. "

" If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise. "

" My own life is wonderful, but if I had to live the life of someone else, I'd gladly choose that of Julia Child or Dr. Seuss: two outrageously original people, each of whom fashioned an idiosyncratic wisdom, passion for life, and sense of humor into an art form that anyone and everyone could savor. "

" I will give you a definition of a proud man: he is a man who has neither vanity nor wisdom one filled with hatreds cannot be vain, neither can he be wise. "

" 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. "

" We need to hear stories from older women. There's a wealth of wisdom and real resilience there, but they're silenced. "

" What a cruel thing war is... to fill our hearts with hatred instead of love for our neighbors. "

" By definition, the Singularity means that machines would be smarter than us, and, in their wisdom, they can innovate new technologies. The innovations would come so quickly, and increasingly quickly, that the innovation would make Moore's Law seem as antiquated as Hammurabi's Code. "

" You can practice to attain knowledge, but you can't practice to attain wisdom. "

" If you have any fault to find with anyone, tell him, not others, of what you complain; there is no more dangerous experiment than that of undertaking to be one thing before a man's face and another behind his back. "

" Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well. "