Politeness is not always a sign of wisdom; but the want of it always leaves room for a suspicion of folly, if… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
“What both Dell and Gary figured out before opening themselves up is that conventional business wisdom that companies need to be secretive… — Tara Hunt Copy Share Image
I deeply respect literature and expect to gain insight from a book and to identify emotionally with its characters. I therefore avoid… — A. B. Yehoshua Copy Share Image
If this nation is to be wise as well as strong, if we are to achieve our destiny, then we need more… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
The light of truth burns without a flicker in the depths of a house that is shaken with storms of passion and… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
You will find the truth the way you have found your awareness, spontaneously. It's a living process. — Nirmala Srivastava Copy Share Image
He that is not handsome at 20, nor strong at 30, nor rich at 40, nor wise at 50, will never be… — George Herbert Copy Share Image
If there must always be a laboring population distinct from proprietors and employers, we regard the slave system as decidedly preferable to… — Orestes Brownson Copy Share Image
[F]or as Socrates says that a wise man is a citizen of the world, so I thought that a wise woman was… — Sarah Fielding Copy Share Image
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“Recall the cold Of Towton on Palm Sunday before dawn, Wakefield, Tewkesbury : fastidious trumpets Shrilling into the ruck ; some trampled… — Geoffrey Hill Copy Share Image
“Neither a light nor a dark lesson is more justified than the other, neither is more powerful, both equal in their opportunity… — Emma Mildon Copy Share Image
You never know what's actually going on in a person's life. You don't know what happened to them before you met them...and… — Katy Perry Copy Share Image
I am not sure how many "sins" I would recognize in the world. Some would surely be defused by changed circumstances. But… — Elizabeth Janeway Copy Share Image
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A wise ruler takes advice, but should never be seen to take it. Let them think you know more than you do.… — Robert Jordan Copy Share Image
If I have any insight at all to contribute it is this: find out what you are really good at and stick… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
“A tree that grows too quickly without developing deep roots falls over in the slightest wind. Develop depth not shallowness of character.” — David Cuschieri Copy Share Image
There are times when fear is good. It must keep its watchful place at the heart's controls. There is advantage in the… — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
“The narrow-minded find it convenient to create stereotypes, and then try to fit everybody, everything and every situation into those stereotypes.” — Janvier Chouteu-Chando Copy Share Image
Primates will continue to play social games without the least insight into what is killing them. — Keith Henson Copy Share Image
The philosophies of one age have become the absurdities of the next, and the foolishness of yesterday has become the wisdom of… — William Osler Copy Share Image
“There is nothing so unsure as the plans we make that rely on the sensible behavior of another human being.” — Steven Saylor Copy Share Image
I wish there were shortcuts to wisdom and self-knowledge: cuter abysses or three-day spa wilderness experiences. Sadly, it doesn't work that way.… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Some of the best lessons we ever learn, we learn from our mistakes and failures. The error of the past is the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Wisdom may be rented...on the experience of other people, but we buy it at an inordinate price before we make it our… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
It takes wisdom to choose to be different when it is more convenient to mingle with the crowd. Step out and let… — Zizo Boco Copy Share Image
“No, I haven't heard that, but I'll keep it in mind. Thanks for the proverbial insight, my stalker friend.” — Courtney Allison Moulton Copy Share Image
“Give as much as importance to your goal as you give it to your first girlfriend, with that much importance your girlfriend… — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
The wise treat self-respect as non-negotiable, and will not trade it for health or wealth or anything else. — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
Do what you love and if people don't like it then don't let them in. They'll screw up your life like no… — Isaiah Harden (Me Copy Share Image
Learning may be through any course, the understanding is only through the source of wisdom,but the implementation of wisdom is the greatest… — Anuj Somany Copy Share Image
“... active wisdom --an entire cohort with something new to offer to the world as years of experience combined with continuing health. [p. 52]” — Mary Catherine Bateson Copy Share Image
Science is one thing, wisdom is another. Science is an edged tool, with which men play like children, and cut their own… — Arthur Eddington Copy Share Image
I have always felt that doubt was the beginning of wisdom, and the fear of God was the end of wisdom. — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
“Sure, knowledge is power but it doesn’t hurt to also have a sword. Just in case.” Heartan, Viddion marah.” — Taylor Grace Copy Share Image
Some people are in the habit of complaining about everything; even about the noise made by opportunity that knocks on the door. — Vikrant Parsai Copy Share Image
“If our existence were limited to the science that attempts to explain it, our existence wouldn’t exist.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
Family . . . the home of all social evil, a charitable institution for comfortable women, an anchorage for house-fathers, and a hell for children. — August Strindberg Copy Share Image
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