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
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Turn your wounds into wisdom.
Oprah Winfrey
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Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues.
Abigail Adams
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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
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Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.
Pablo Picasso
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With age comes common sense and wisdom.
Nas
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The sweetest of all sounds is praise.
Xenophon
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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
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If your writing collides with the conventional wisdom, there's going to be some kind of friction.
Pankaj Mishra
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If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
Abraham Maslow
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We are wiser than we know.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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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
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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
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Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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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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The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.
Lao Tzu
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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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Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
William Cowper
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You cannot intellectualize God, you cannot, He is beyond your intellect, you cannot understand Him through your intellect. If you have to understand Him you have to become the spirit.
Nirmala Srivastava
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Comedians, we're just people who whine. But we happen to be funny when we whine.
Artie Lange
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Jamie, you know, you could go clear around the world and still come home wondering if the tuna fish sandwiches at Chock Full O'Nuts still cost thirty-five cents.
E. L. Konigsburg
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Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
David Starr Jordan