David Starr Jordan Quotes
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Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.
Rabindranath Tagore -
Turn your wounds into wisdom.
Oprah Winfrey -
Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues.
Abigail Adams -
Second, this epic tale allows the audience to actually listen to the Native Americans and receive their wisdom. Spielberg conveys the respect for Native Americans that is normally lacking in Western films.
Beau Bridges -
Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.
Pablo Picasso -
With age comes common sense and wisdom.
Nas
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The sweetest of all sounds is praise.
Xenophon -
I'd like to think, if I was ever in a fight, I'd win, although I'd probably run in the opposite direction.
Rachel Nichols -
If your writing collides with the conventional wisdom, there's going to be some kind of friction.
Pankaj Mishra -
If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
Abraham Maslow -
We are wiser than we know.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
Life is a travelling to the edge of knowledge, then a leap taken.
D. H. Lawrence
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Wisdom is knowledge which has become a part of one's being.
Orison Swett Marden -
One of the most beautiful passages of Rousseau is that in the sixth book of Confessions, where he describes the awakening in him of the literary sense. Of such wisdom, the poetic passion, the desire of beauty, the love of art for its own sake, has most.
Walter Pater -
Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
The most important lesson of New Labour is this: Every time we made progress we did it by challenging the conventional wisdom.
Ed Miliband -
The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.
Lao Tzu -
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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There's so much about Dolly Parton that every female artist should look to, whether it's reading her quotes or reading her interviews or going to one of her live shows. She's been such an amazing example to every female songwriter out there.
Taylor Swift -
I would splurge on a great pair of high heels, because you can wear them to something fancy, but regular clothes? I'd rather go on a trip than spend $10,000 on clothes, and fly first class as a treat.
Keri Russell -
The Church's note must be a supernatural note which distinguishes incarnation from immanence, redemption from evolution, the Kingdom of God from mere spiritual process.
Arthur Middleton -
Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
David Starr Jordan