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" Whatever position I occupied, it was the result of colleagues - of my comrades in the movement - who had decided in their wisdom to use me for the purpose of focusing the attention of the country and the international community on me. "

Nelson Mandela

Colleagues

Purpose

Wisdom

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

Anne Bradstreet

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" I believe the continually advancing Information Revolution will lend us the wisdom and strength to address humanity's previously unsolvable problems and help us make a positive impact on all of society. "

" Your art kind of changes as you get older, by nature of the fact that you're hopefully gaining wisdom and you're starting to watch things with a better overview. "

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

" If an idea is indeed sensible, it will eventually become just part of the accepted wisdom. "

" They would need to be already wise, in order to love wisdom. "

" Make it your habit not to be critical about small things. "

" In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause. "

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

Archimedes

Long

Enough

" Before I went to jail, I was active in politics as a member of South Africa's leading organization - and I was generally busy from 7 A.M. until midnight. I never had time to sit and think. "

" Except for the grace of God, I would be nobody - and that grace is the opposite of merit - human labour, education or human 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. "

" Men who know themselves are no longer fools. They stand on the threshold of the door of Wisdom. "

" To keep your secret is wisdom; but to expect others to keep it is folly. "

" The biggest handicap in research is an ability to think outside the box. The handicap is being encumbered by all the conventional wisdom in a given field. "

" Some coaches pray for wisdom. I pray for 260-pound tackles. They'll give me plenty of wisdom. "

" People usually compare the computer to the head of the human being. I would say that hardware is the bone of the head, the skull. The semiconductor is the brain within the head. The software is the wisdom. And data is the knowledge. "

" As an attorney, I could be rather flamboyant in court. I did not act as though I were a black man in a white man's court, but as if everyone else - white and black - was a guest in my court. When trying a case, I often made sweeping gestures and used high-flown language. "

" Never, never and never again shall it be that this beautiful land will again experience the oppression of one by another. "

" Justice Scalia was a lion of the law. Agree or disagree with him, all of his colleagues on the bench shared his wisdom and his humor. And like them, I miss him. "

" Contrary to conventional wisdom, the blue blazer's a bit of a loose cannon. A suit decided long ago what it wanted to be, and it doesn't want to hear your ideas, but a blue blazer only got around to half the job. So it leaves it up to you to find its bottoms. Gray slacks, blue jeans, patterns, white pants and different blue shades all work. "

" Economists often like startling theorems, results which seem to run counter to conventional wisdom. "

Joseph Stiglitz

Economists

Results

" A man begins cutting his wisdom teeth the first time he bites off more than he can chew. "

" Only free men can negotiate. A prisoner cannot enter into contracts. "

" The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living, which are to be desired when dying. "

" Above all, you must fight conceit, envy, and every kind of ill-feeling in your heart. "

" I am not the first Buddha who came upon Earth, nor shall I be the last. In due time, another Buddha will arise in the world - a Holy One, a supremely enlightened One, endowed with wisdom in conduct, auspicious, knowing the universe, an incomparable leader of men, a master of angels and mortals. "

" 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

I Am

" Wisdom is knowledge which has become a part of one's being. "