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" Wise men make more opportunities than they find. "
Francis Bacon
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" Wisdom is nothing but a preparation of the soul, a capacity, a secret art of thinking, feeling and breathing thoughts of unity at every moment of life. "
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" Once you label me you negate me. "
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" Opportunity makes a thief. "
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" Wisdom is a kind of knowledge. It is knowledge of the nature, career, and consequences of human values. "
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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. "
Henry Ward Beecher
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" He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe. "
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" By the time you've reached your sixties, you do know that one day you will die, and knowing that is at least the beginning of wisdom. "
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" The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while. "
Albert Einstein
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" Imagination allows us to escape the predictable. It enables us to reply to the common wisdom that we cannot soar by saying, 'Just watch!' "
Bill Bradley
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" 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. "
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" While I have no empirical evidence to back this up, I bet that the number of homosexual people per thousand has not fluctuated all that much over the centuries. I do not believe the dented wisdom my father used to extol, that homosexuality was a sure sign of a civilization in decline. "
Henry Rollins
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" Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents. "
Khalil Gibran
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" The soul's joy lies in doing. "
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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" What if Barack Obama established a Presidential Advisory Committee that would meet once every couple of months, bringing together the former presidents for a conference in order to seek their collective wisdom? There is a wealth of experience in former presidents that generally goes untapped. "
Tony Campolo
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Together
" The key to wisdom is this - constant and frequent questioning, for by doubting we are led to question and by questioning we arrive at the truth. "
Peter Abelard
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Key
" The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common. "
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See
" Once I turned 35, I got the bonus of some wisdom and began to accept life on its own terms. "
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" It seems to me that, in every culture, I come across a chapter headed 'Wisdom.' And then I know exactly what is going to follow: 'Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.' "
Ludwig Wittgenstein
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" If you want a thing done well, do it yourself. "
Napoleon Bonaparte
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" It isn't right to judge strength as better than good wisdom. "
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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" The pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon. "
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