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Peter Jennings on wisdom
Author: Peter Jennings“I’ve always shied away from conventional wisdom, though I know the power of it.” -Peter Jennings
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Anne Bradstreet on wisdom
Author: Anne Bradstreet“Authority without wisdom is like a heavy ax without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish.” -Anne Bradstreet
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Richard Le Gallienne on wisdom
Author: Richard Le Gallienne“A wholesome oblivion of one’s neighbours is the beginning of wisdom.” -Richard Le Gallienne
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Emanuel Swedenborg on wisdom
Author: Emanuel Swedenborg“The Divine of the Lord in heaven is love, for the reason that love is receptive of all things of heaven, such as peace, intelligence, wisdom and happiness.” -Emanuel Swedenborg
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Joe Baca on wisdom
Author: Joe Baca“We learned in World War II that no single nation holds a monopoly on wisdom, morality or right to power, but that we must fight for the weak and promote democracy.” -Joe Baca
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George A. Romero on wisdom
Author: George A. Romero“As great as Ed is, the wisdom out here is that he can’t carry a movie. They’ll pay him $3 million to be the second banana in Julia Roberts things. But they won’t put up $3 million for an Ed Harris movie.” -George A. Romero
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Henning Mankell on wisdom
Author: Henning Mankell“Normally street children are shown in terms of the tragedy of their lives – which is true – but there’s also another dimension: their wisdom, dignity and enormous capacity for survival.” -Henning Mankell
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Norman Douglas on wisdom
Author: Norman Douglas“The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living, which are to be desired when dying.” -Norman Douglas
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Stanley Kunitz on wisdom
Author: Stanley Kunitz“Old myths, old gods, old heroes have never died. They are only sleeping at the bottom of our mind, waiting for our call. We have need for them. They represent the wisdom of our race.” -Stanley Kunitz
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Sheryl Crow on wisdom
Author: Sheryl Crow“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.” -Sheryl Crow
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Mikhail Gorbachev on wisdom
Author: Mikhail Gorbachev“Surely, God on high has not refused to give us enough wisdom to find ways to bring us an improvement in relations between the two great nations on earth.” -Mikhail Gorbachev
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Stephen Gardiner on wisdom
Author: Stephen Gardiner“The greater the step forward in knowledge, the greater is the one taken backward in search of wisdom.” -Stephen Gardiner
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Daniel Dae Kim on wisdom
Author: Daniel Dae Kim“There is as much wisdom in listening as there is in speaking – and that goes for all relationships, not just romantic ones.” -Daniel Dae Kim
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Wilhelm von Humboldt on wisdom
Author: Wilhelm von Humboldt“However great an evil immorality may be, we must not forget that it is not without its beneficial consequences. It is only through extremes that men can arrive at the middle path of wisdom and virtue.” -Wilhelm von Humboldt
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Gene Oliver on wisdom
Author: Gene Oliver“My past is my wisdom to use today… my future is my wisdom yet to experience. Be in the present because that is where life resides.” -Gene Oliver
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George William Curtis on wisdom
Author: George William Curtis“Books are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom.” -George William Curtis
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Ruth St. Denis on wisdom
Author: Ruth St. Denis“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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Bill Bradley on wisdom
Author: Bill Bradley“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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Mary Astell on wisdom
Author: Mary Astell“Unhappy is that Grandeur which makes us too great to be good and that Wit which sets us at a distance from true Wisdom.” -Mary Astell
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John Henry Newman on wisdom
Author: John Henry Newman“A great memory is never made synonymous with wisdom, any more than a dictionary would be called a treatise.” -John Henry Newman
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John Selden on wisdom
Author: John Selden“No man is the wiser for his learning it may administer matter to work in, or objects to work upon but wit and wisdom are born with a man.” -John Selden
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Mayim Bialik on wisdom
Author: Mayim Bialik“When you’re used to being prepared to reject conventional wisdom, it leaves you open to learn more.” -Mayim Bialik
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John Woolman on wisdom
Author: John Woolman“I find that to be a fool as to worldly wisdom, and to commit my cause to God, not fearing to offend men, who take offence at the simplicity of truth, is the only way to remain unmoved at the sentiments of others.” -John Woolman
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Wislawa Szymborska on wisdom
Author: Wislawa Szymborska“I have sympathy for young people, for their growing pains, but I balk when these growing pains are pushed into the foreground, when you make these young people the only vehicles of life’s wisdom.” -Wislawa Szymborska
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Francis Quarles on wisdom
Author: Francis Quarles“Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.” -Francis Quarles