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" What is man's ultimate direction in life? It is to look for love, truth, virtue, and beauty. "
Shinichi Suzuki
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" I love wisdom. And you can never be great at anything unless you love it. Not be in love with it, but love the thing, admire the thing. And it seems that if you love the thing, and you don't just want to possess it, it will find you. "
Maya Angelou
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" Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain. "
Khalil Gibran
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" In order to have wisdom we must have ignorance. "
Theodore Dreiser
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" A closed mouth catches no flies. "
Miguel de Cervantes
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" 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. "
Ian Ziering
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" Wise men make more opportunities than they find. "
Francis Bacon
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" It's easier to resist at the beginning than at the end. "
Leonardo da Vinci
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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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" Preconceived notions are the locks on the door to wisdom. "
Mary Browne
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Preconceived
" It doesn't matter how much wisdom you have. If you don't have position, you have nothing. That's the tragedy of India. "
Rahul Gandhi
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You
India
" Doubt the conventional wisdom unless you can verify it with reason and experiment. "
Steve Albini
Experiment
Doubt
You
" There is a trade off - as you grow older you gain wisdom but you lose spontaneity. "
Kenny Rogers
Lose
You
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" 'Swan,' by Mary Oliver. Poems and prose. Reading from this book is as if visiting a very wise friend. There is wisdom and welcoming kindness on every page. "
Jessye Norman
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Wisdom
" Everyone has always underestimated a company headquartered in Salt Lake City, Utah. The New York boys thought they could take me on, that nobody out here has any knowledge or wisdom. "
Jon Huntsman, Sr.
Wisdom
New York
Me
" 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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Call
Expect
" I am thinking of taking a fifth wife. Why not? Solomon had a thousand wives and he is a synonym for wisdom. "
John Barrymore
Wife
He
I Am
" Experience is knowledge; but knowledge, when it is sought only as a material resource, is not always a blessing. Experience is wisdom; but wisdom, with those who lack vision, is not always power. Experience is tolerance; but tolerance, when it is induced by apathy, is not in the least a virtue. "
Ameen Rihani
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Knowledge
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" Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there. "
Will Rogers
Run
Right
You
" Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability. "
Plautus
Wisdom
Ability
Attained
" 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
You
Never Give Up
Power
" We learned in World War II that no single nation holds a monopoly on wisdom, morality or right to power, but that we must fight for the weak and promote democracy. "
Joe Baca
War
Democracy
Fight
" The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention. "
John Burroughs
Better
Wisdom
Intention
" Commitment is an act, not a word. "
Jean-Paul Sartre
Word
Commitment
Wisdom
" 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. "
Hugh Jackman
Love
You
Wisdom
" After 25-plus years as a lawyer, prosecutor, and defense attorney, I have developed a deep appreciation for both the wisdom of the law and the role that jurists play in framing the rights and responsibilities that define our society. "
Eliot Spitzer
Society
Wisdom
Law
" When in doubt, don't. "
Benjamin Franklin
Wisdom
Doubt
When In Doubt
" He who devotes sixteen hours a day to hard study may become at sixty as wise as he thought himself at twenty. "
Mary Wilson Little
Study
Hard
Wisdom
" Wisdom and understanding can only become the possession of individual men by travelling the old road of observation, attention, perseverance, and industry. "
Samuel Smiles
Old
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Road
" Except for the grace of God, I would be nobody - and that grace is the opposite of merit - human labour, education or human wisdom. "
T. B. Joshua
Nobody
Education
Grace
" It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen. "
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
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Speak