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" Women are stronger than men - they do not die of wisdom. "
James Stephens
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" Our bodies are at once the receiving and transmitting stations for life itself. It is the highest wisdom to recognize this fact and train our bodies to render them sensitive and responsive to nature. art and religion. "
Ruth St. Denis
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" 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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" However glorious an action in itself, it ought not to pass for great if it be not the effect of wisdom and intention. "
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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" Finality is death. Perfection is finality. Nothing is perfect. There are lumps in it. "
James Stephens
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Perfect
Nothing
" Lessons of wisdom have the most power over us when they capture the heart through the groundwork of a story, which engages the passions. "
Laurence Sterne
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" Wisdom is knowing when you can't be wise. "
Paul Engle
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" There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart. "
Charles Dickens
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" Let me warn you, if you start chasing after views, you'll be left without bread and without views. "
Nikolai Gogol
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" Vanity can easily overtake wisdom. It usually overtakes common sense. "
Julian Casablancas
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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. "
J. Michael Straczynski
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" It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf. "
Walter Lippmann
Deaf
Music
Nothing
" The beginning of wisdom is to desire it. "
Solomon Ibn Gabirol
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" Outside of hip-hop, it was in comics that I most often found the aesthetics and wisdom of my world reflected. "
Ta-Nehisi Coates
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Outside
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" None knows the weight of another's burden. "
George Herbert
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" Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself. "
Khalil Gibran
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" What happens is not as important as how you react to what happens. "
Ellen Glasgow
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" Knowing that you are going to die is, I suspect, the beginning of wisdom. "
Terry Pratchett
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You
" Every nation whose affairs betray a want of wisdom and stability may calculate on every loss which can be sustained from the more systematic policy of its wiser neighbors. "
James Madison
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" Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability. "
Plautus
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" Whatever religion or wisdom, spirituality and values are important to me and to the business. "
Isabelle Kocher
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" A closed mouth catches no flies. "
Miguel de Cervantes
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" Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus. "
Wallace Stegner
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Things
Break
" Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification. "
Martin H. Fischer
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" Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own. "
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Others
" Perhaps religious conscience upsets the designs of those who feel that the highest wisdom and authority comes from government. But from the beginning, this nation trusted in God, not man. Religious liberty is the first freedom in our Constitution. "
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" 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
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" 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
" Above all, you must fight conceit, envy, and every kind of ill-feeling in your heart. "
Abraham Cahan
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" A proverb is the wisdom of many and the wit of one. "
Lord John Russell
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" We know there is a deep reservoir of food wisdom out there, or else humans would not have survived to the extent we have. Much of this food wisdom is worth preserving and reviving and heeding. "
Michael Pollan
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