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" Wisdom is oftentimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar. "

William Wordsworth

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" The ultimate wisdom which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed. There it lies, the simplest fact of the universe and at the same time the one which calls faith rather than reason. "

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

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" I'm at the transition place myself, still playing high school girls but moving to a stage when I'm playing older roles and going to the places of stillness and wisdom and knowledge and weight. It's exciting and scary. "

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" 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. "

" Never find fault with the absent. "

" Practical wisdom is only to be learned in the school of experience. Precepts and instruction are useful so far as they go, but, without the discipline of real life, they remain of the nature of theory only. "

" It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen. "

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

" Wisdom sails with wind and time. "

" I'm always feeling like I'm lacking wisdom. This reassurance that one can ask God for that and it will happen is certainly reassuring to me. "

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" Knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows. "

Alfred North Whitehead

" I'm particularly interested in black swan events: unprecedented surprises that destroy the conventional wisdom about how the world works. "

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" Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. And don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines. "

Richard M. Nixon

" How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone. "

" India is known for its sobriety and wisdom, balanced and sensible thinking. We need strong institutions and we need good governance in the country. "

" If you believe the doctors, nothing is wholesome; if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent; if you believe the military, nothing is safe. "

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

" Contemplation and wisdom are highest achievements and man is not totally at home with them. "

" Most people see what they expect to see, what they want to see, what they've been told to see, what conventional wisdom tells them to see - not what is right in front of them in its pristine condition. "

Vincent Bugliosi

" Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one. "

Albert Einstein

" All of us, at certain moments of our lives, need to take advice and to receive help from other people. "

" Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours. "

" This is what I learned: that everybody is talented, original and has something important to say. "

" Both in thought and in feeling, even though time be real, to realise the unimportance of time is the gate of wisdom. "

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" There is no knowledge, no light, no wisdom that you are in possession of, but what you have received it from some source. "

" Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late. "

Felix Frankfurter

" A short saying often contains much wisdom. "

" A thought transfixed me: for the first time in my life, I saw the truth as it is set into song by so many poets, proclaimed as the final wisdom by so many thinkers. The truth - that love is the ultimate and the highest goal to which man can aspire. "

Viktor E. Frankl

" I prefer the folly of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom. "