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" We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom. "

Stephen Vincent Benet

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Stephen Colbert

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" Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus. "

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" Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion? "

Friedrich Nietzsche

" Wise men make more opportunities than they find. "

" Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world. "

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

" I want to dip my foot in some acting. And most definitely want to mentor upcoming artists and give them the wisdom that was given to me. "

" There are many trials that seem hard to bear at first which prove true blessings later when we see of what false materials they were first composed. "

Stephen Vincent Benet

" We're living in a society where you need to be accountable for your actions, for your behavior - for yourself. To sit back and be reactive would be to allow your children to make big mistakes without the benefit of your wisdom being bestowed on them. It's not what my parents taught me. "

" We humans have lost the wisdom of genuinely resting and relaxing. We worry too much. We don't allow our bodies to heal, and we don't allow our minds and hearts to heal. "

Thich Nhat Hanh

" Outside of hip-hop, it was in comics that I most often found the aesthetics and wisdom of my world reflected. "

Ta-Nehisi Coates

" Be as you wish to seem. "

" Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another. "

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" Rediscovering the wisdom of love and compassion may help us survive at a time when an increasingly balkanized world so badly needs it. "

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George Santayana

" The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are. "

" I praise loudly. I blame softly. "

Catherine the Great

" As you walk in God's divine wisdom, you will surely begin to see a greater measure of victory and good success in your life. "