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" When an opponent comes forward, move in and greet him; if he wants to pull back, send him on his way. "

Morihei Ueshiba

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" For the Holy Ghost blesses us with optimism and wisdom at times of challenge that we simply cannot muster on our own. "

" Man works outwardly and inwardly - after rest, he has energy; after energy, he needs repose; so, when we have given instruction for a time, we need instruction and must receive it, or the spirit faints and wisdom herself grows bitter. "

" What a company's been earning doesn't mean anything. What you have to look at is what people think it's going to earn. If you can see something in two years is going to be entirely different than the conventional wisdom, that's how you make money. "

Stanley Druckenmiller

" I don't turn to greeting cards for wisdom and advice, but they are a fine reflection of the general drift of the culture. "

" Spiritual teachers and artists that have opened the eye of wisdom for the world, and visionary community builders, have influenced my work. "

" When you get older, you learn certain life lessons. You apply that wisdom, and suddenly you say, 'Hey, I've got a new lease on this thing. So let's go.' "

" Wisdom cannot come by railroad or automobile or aeroplane, or be hurried up by telegraph or telephone. "

" He who is taught to live upon little owes more to his father's wisdom than he who has a great deal left him does to his father's care. "

" The world is a diverse place. Nobody has a monopoly on virtue or wisdom. "

Lee Hsien Loong

" Commitment is an act, not a word. "

Jean-Paul Sartre

" In world mythology, there are countless examples of tragic characters whose greatest strength is also the source of their undoing. But the ancient Greeks and Romans also held the view that acceptance is the beginning of wisdom. "

" When I was born, the wisdom was that homosexuality was an illness; that it was caused largely by somebody's mother, and a distorted relationship with the mother. And now, as I live my life - married to a husband, with kids - it's an identity. "

" I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures. "

" Children also have artistic ability, and there is wisdom in there having it! The more helpless they are, the more instructive are the examples they furnish us; and they must be preserved free of corruption from an early age. "

" The philosophy of life is this: Life is not a struggle, not a tension... Life is bliss. It is eternal wisdom, eternal existence. "

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

" The higher we are placed, the more humbly we should walk. "

Marcus Tullius Cicero

" We can be knowledgable with other men's knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom. "

Michel de Montaigne

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

John Henry Newman

" A mistake is simply another way of doing things. "

Katharine Graham

" Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess, and yet all the honesty in the world ain't lawful tender for a loaf of bread. "

" We gain the strength of the temptation we resist. "

Ralph Waldo Emerson

" Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal. "

" People spend too much time finding other people to blame, too much energy finding excuses for not being what they are capable of being, and not enough energy putting themselves on the line, growing out of the past, and getting on with their lives. "

J. Michael Straczynski

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

Walter Benjamin

" The divine is not something high above us. It is in heaven, it is in earth, it is inside us. "

Morihei Ueshiba

" Though sages may pour out their wisdom's treasure, there is no sterner moralist than pleasure. "

" Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit. "

" Preconceived notions are the locks on the door to wisdom. "

" It doesn't matter how much wisdom you have. If you don't have position, you have nothing. That's the tragedy of India. "