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First a piece of Irish wisdom: you should always listen to a bookie. For they have a saying, 'Money tells a good story,' and somewhere in their odds is a kind of science-fiction existentialism that decrees that we, the people, know everything. In other words, betting patterns often make for good, unconscious soothsaying.
- Frank Delaney
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The long-standing wisdom that everyone wins in a single world market has been undermined. Global trade, capital flows, and immigration are declining.
- Roger Altman
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The word philosophy sounds high-minded, but it simply means the love of wisdom. If you love something, you don't just read about it; you hug it, you mess with it, you play with it, you argue with it.
- Hugh Jackman
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Instead of looking at life as a narrowing funnel, we can see it ever widening to choose the things we want to do, to take the wisdom we've learned and create something.
- Liz Carpenter
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I went out of my way to play games I didn't like or find interesting. Those ended up being a lot more informative for me. At home, I have literally thousands of games, and I think of them as pearls of wisdom from my predecessors.
- Masahiro Sakurai
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But in its final creation it was not the part of the Father's power to fail as though exhausted. It was not the part of His wisdom to waver in a needful matter through poverty of counsel.
- Giovanni Pico della Mirandola
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God the Father, the supreme Architect, had already built this cosmic home we behold, the most sacred temple of His godhead, by the laws of His mysterious wisdom.
- Giovanni Pico della Mirandola
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The first point of wisdom is to discern that which is false; the second, to know that which is true.
- Lactantius
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Practical wisdom is what's called for in situations that have a moral dimension to them.
- Barry Schwartz
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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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Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.
- Lactantius
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Sometimes I am happy and sometimes not. I am, after all, a human being, you know. And I am glad that we are sometimes happy and sometimes not. You get your wisdom working by having different emotions.
- Yoko Ono
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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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The most important lesson of New Labour is this: Every time we made progress we did it by challenging the conventional wisdom.
- Ed Miliband
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Those who improve with age embrace the power of personal growth and personal achievement and begin to replace youth with wisdom, innocence with understanding, and lack of purpose with self-actualization.
- Bo Bennett
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This is perhaps the most profound meaning of the book of Job, the best example of wisdom.
- Paul Ricoeur
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The weak have remedies, the wise have joys; superior wisdom is superior bliss.
- Edward Young
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I have seen life from the top down and the bottom up. I know how it looks both ways. And I know there is wisdom and that there is hope.
- L. Ron Hubbard
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In regard of the rich grace and wisdom of his love toward his people; for who sees not, but that it is a curse to be unready as these foolish virgins, who were therefore shut out.
- Thomas Shepard
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Strength and wisdom are not opposing values.
- William J. Clinton
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If we have built on the fragile cornerstones of human wisdom, pride, and conditional love, things may look good for a while, but a weak foundation causes collapse when storms hit.
- Charles Stanley
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The marvel of the Bhagavad-Gita is its truly beautiful revelation of life's wisdom which enables philosophy to blossom into religion.
- Hermann Hesse
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Arianna Huffington has exercised her renowned wisdom to give journalism another boost along the ever busier Internet. Her blog site promises to be an interesting challenge for those of us lucky enough to be invited to participate with our occasional contributions.
- Walter Cronkite
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Surely wisdom will come as we listen to learn from children, parents, partners, neighbors, Church leaders, and the Lord.
- Russell M. Nelson
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Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack. We give it orders which make no sense.
- Henry Miller
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I learned some valuable lessons about the legislative process, the importance of bipartisan cooperation and the wisdom of taking small steps to get a big job done.
- Hillary Clinton
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I am a poor student sitting at the feet of giants, yearning for their wisdom and begging for lessons that might one day make me a complete artist, so that if all goes well, I may one day sit beside them.
- Rod Taylor
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A proverb is the wisdom of many and the wit of one.
- Lord John Russell
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As far as feeling freedom in my career now versus five years ago... I think if I feel any more free it's simply because of the experiences that I've had, and the wisdom I've accumulated from that time.
- Mary Chapin Carpenter
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I'm not a mom, but I think the word 'mother' is about wisdom.
- Margaret Cho
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Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.
- Hermann Hesse
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The seat of knowledge is in the head; of wisdom, in the heart. We are sure to judge wrong, if we do not feel right.
- William Hazlitt
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India is known for its sobriety and wisdom, balanced and sensible thinking. We need strong institutions and we need good governance in the country.
- Pratibha Patil
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There's the conventional wisdom, of which I have none, where you get a record deal, you get a publicist, you get a campaign, and you do the tour, but none of that adds up to things like nuance and subtlety and dynamic.
- Chris Robinson
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Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence and deem them like the Ark of the Covenant, too sacred to be touched. They ascribe to men of the preceding age a wisdom more than human and suppose what they did to be beyond amendment.
- Edmund Morgan
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Intelligence alone does not get us where we need to go or even necessarily where we want to go. For that, the human creature must exercise harder-won capacities of wisdom, and wise action.
- Krista Tippett
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We are a very youth-driven culture, and I don't really know why because wisdom tends to come with more years, not fewer.
- Dede Gardner
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Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.
- Herbert Hoover
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The more you meditate on the laws of Moses, the more striking and brighter does their wisdom appear.
- John Quincy Adams
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I've always enjoyed doing challenging things and also challenging common wisdom.
- Stefan Hell
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After the knowledge of, and obedience to, the will of God, the next aim must be to know something of His attributes of wisdom, power, and goodness as evidenced by His handiwork.
- James Prescott Joule
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I don't see the wisdom in modern politicians that I once saw in men like Dean Acheson, David Bruce, or George Marshall. In my day, the northeastern establishment dominated foreign policy formulation, but the composition and distribution of our population is very different today.
- Henry Kissinger
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Pessimism is only the name that men of weak nerves give to wisdom.
- Bernard DeVoto
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Contrary to popular wisdom, the mark of a great meeting is not how short it is or whether it ends on time. The key is whether it ends with clarity and commitment from participants.
- Patrick Lencioni
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I reject most conventional wisdom.
- Rush Limbaugh
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The philosophies of one age have become the absurdities of the next, and the foolishness of yesterday has become the wisdom of tomorrow.
- William Osler
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Books should to one of these fours ends conduce, for wisdom, piety, delight, or use.
- John Denham
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F. Lee Bailey had been an inspiration to me. It was my desire to have him behind the scenes, to rely on his great wisdom and his brainpower, but I did not feel he should be in the courtroom.
- Robert Shapiro
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To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.
- Herman Melville
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The more tranquil a man becomes, the greater is his success, his influence, his power for good. Calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom.
- James Allen
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The wisdom and experience of older people is a resource of inestimable worth. Recognizing and treasuring the contributions of older people is essential to the long-term flourishing of any society.
- Daisaku Ikeda
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I'm married. My wife, Stella - a beautiful woman. She's brought a lot of peace to my life, a lot of wisdom.
- Anthony Hopkins
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I had read Harold Bloom's 'Where Shall Wisdom Be Found?' Late in his life, having read everything, Bloom asked which books had given him wisdom. I had just read a bunch of contemporary novels that had no wisdom for me.
- Amor Towles
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We dwell in the house of the body, but its perfection and intricate life are the work of a wisdom which never relaxes dominion over a single cell.
- George William Russell
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In my fifties, I was still in creation mode. Now I have more of a responsibility to step back and mentor and offer wisdom, offer sign posts on the path.
- Jodie Evans
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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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The biggest handicap in research is an ability to think outside the box. The handicap is being encumbered by all the conventional wisdom in a given field.
- Aubrey de Grey
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Conventional wisdom suggests the primary motivator for entrepreneurs is money or wealth creation and, in fact, much of the political debate tends to center around what kind of tax or regulatory policy changes will turn corporate suits into small business adventurers overnight.
- Chip Conley
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I continue to believe, contrary to the given wisdom, that it's more interesting to have an album - or, indeed, an individual song - which has variety rather than homogeneity.
- Peter Hammill
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Cultures have long heard wisdom in non-human voices: Apollo, god of music, medicine and knowledge, came to Delphi in the form of a dolphin. But dolphins, which fill the oceans with blipping and chirping, and whales, which mew and caw in ultramarine jazz - a true rhapsody in blue - are hunted to the edge of silence.
- Jay Griffiths
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Knowledge is marvelous, but wisdom is even better.
- Kay Redfield Jamison
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And I pray thee, loving Jesus, that as Thou hast graciously given me to drink in with delight the words of Thy knowledge, so Thou wouldst mercifully grant me to attain one day to Thee, the fountain of all wisdom and to appear forever before Thy face.
- Venerable Bede
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I don't believe in a golden mean; I don't believe you find policy wisdom between two polar points. I don't dismiss that possibility, but I look at the platform that's so ideologically based, that's so dismissive of facts, of evidence, of science, and it's frankly hard to take seriously.
- Thomas E. Mann
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Wisdom consists not so much in knowing what to do in the ultimate as knowing what to do next.
- Herbert Hoover
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We developed a technology called artificial swarm intelligence, which is all about tapping the inherent knowledge, wisdom, intuition of groups.
- Louis B. Rosenberg
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It is in the interest of Americans to find out what those wanting to be president think about a wide range of challenges and what they might do about them. We should want to get their take on the wisdom of past decisions, what they agree and disagree with, and why.
- Richard N. Haass
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We need to hear stories from older women. There's a wealth of wisdom and real resilience there, but they're silenced.
- Hannah Gadsby
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What could be more lonely than to be enveloped in silence, to be the last of your people to speak your native tongue, to have no way to pass on the wisdom of the elders, to anticipate the promise of the children. This tragic fate is indeed the plight of someone somewhere roughly every two weeks.
- Wade Davis
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The novelist teaches the reader to comprehend the world as a question. There is wisdom and tolerance in that attitude. In a world built on sacrosanct certainties the novel is dead.
- Milan Kundera
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The clouds may drop down titles and estates, and wealth may seek us, but wisdom must be sought.
- Edward Young
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Courage is always the surest wisdom.
- Wilfred Grenfell
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Robots have already surpassed human beings in calculation and memory, but I have no doubt that the time will come when they will surpass in wisdom as well.
- Masayoshi Son
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Wisdom and understanding can only become the possession of individual men by travelling the old road of observation, attention, perseverance, and industry.
- Samuel Smiles
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You can only make sense of the online world by going offline and by getting the wisdom and emotional clarity to know how to make the best use of the Internet.
- Pico Iyer
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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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You can practice to attain knowledge, but you can't practice to attain wisdom.
- Herbie Hancock
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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.
- Samuel Smiles
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Come, come, leave business to idlers, and wisdom to fools: they have need of 'em: wit be my faculty, and pleasure my occupation, and let father Time shake his glass.
- William Congreve
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Full of wisdom are the ordinations of fate.
- Friedrich Schiller
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Knowledge is not just the preserve of the educated elite. Just because someone has not had a formal education, that does not mean he does not have wisdom and common sense.
- Vikas Swarup
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The will to set values and the power to make them law are jointly at the bottom of all operative norms. When linked to divine wisdom, this source of moral law is still in safe hands which man can trust.
- Hans Jonas
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Few of the many wise apothegms which have been uttered have prevented a single foolish action.
- Thomas Babington Macaulay
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It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own.
- William Inge
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Wisdom begins at the end.
- Daniel Webster
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Look around for a place to sow a few seeds.
- Henry Van Dyke
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A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants.
- Joseph Addison
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It is wisdom in prosperity, when all is as thou wouldn't have it, to fear and suspect the worst.
- Desiderius Erasmus
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There's always a miasma of misinformation emerging from the higher education sector as to which are the 'best' courses to take. My advice would always be to ignore the perceived wisdom and look for the most reliable evidence on the ground.
- David Puttnam
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They see me as being this Super Mom on TV who also can more than handle a difficult husband, and they assume I'm going to be just full of wisdom as a mother and wife myself.
- Patricia Richardson
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What would help us preserve our natural resources are genetic traits that let us sacrifice the present for the sake of the future. You need wisdom to sacrifice something that is immediately useful or advantageous for the sake of something that will be important in the future.
- Christian de Duve
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I covered my face because they had taken my wisdom teeth out.
- Josh Brolin
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There's a real wisdom to not saying a thing.
- Willem Dafoe
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It's now our responsibility to prove to ourselves, to other nations, and especially to our children and our grandchildren, that politics is full of fun; politics has some wisdom. Politics is freedom.
- Joko Widodo
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In world mythology, there are countless examples of tragic characters whose greatest strength is also the source of their undoing. But the ancient Greeks and Romans also held the view that acceptance is the beginning of wisdom.
- Simon Van Booy
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I don't want to put a pause on the rest of my life; I'm really enjoying getting older and the wisdom that comes from that.
- Rosemarie DeWitt
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I've matured as a writer and human being. I've got some wisdom under my belt.
- Carlene Carter
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The online musical universe has become Balkanized, with many sites focusing on minute niches. That works well for reaching very specific demographics, which is wonderful for advertising, but it flies in the face of the common wisdom that people's tastes have become more diverse as music of any description has become a mouse-click away.
- Michael Azerrad
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Being involved in movies is my passion. What's gotten me off the mat is the sense of the child in all of us. I feel like the same guy as I did back in the mail room, but with more wisdom, from the depths of experience to the heights.
- Mark Canton
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My abiding faith in the wisdom of our electorate is what gives me hope.
- Kapil Sibal
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For those of you who pray, I ask that you pray that I will always judge with wisdom and integrity as a faithful servant of the law.
- Charles T. Canady
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