Mason Cooley 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 -
Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
H. L. Mencken -
I'm a member of the 1960s generation. We didn't have any wisdom.
P. J. O'Rourke -
Much of the conventional wisdom associated with Vietnam was highly inaccurate. Far from an inevitable result of the imperative to contain communism, the war was only made possible through lies and deceptions aimed at the American public, Congress, and members of Lyndon Johnson's own administration.
H. R. McMaster -
The sweetest of all sounds is praise.
Xenophon
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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 -
The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.
Lao Tzu -
It used to be, it is accepted scientific wisdom the Earth is flat, and this heretic named Galileo was branded a denier.
Ted Cruz -
Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.
Edmund Burke -
History is filled with tragic examples of wars that result from diplomatic impasse. Whether in our local communities or in international relations, the skillful use of our communicative capacities to negotiate and resolve differences is the first evidence of human wisdom.
Daisaku Ikeda
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Set your course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.
Omar N. Bradley -
Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
Samuel Johnson -
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 -
Why did the Soviet Union disintegrate? Why did the Soviet Communist Party collapse? An important reason was that their ideals and beliefs had been shaken.
Xi Jinping -
Year's end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us.
Hal Borland -
On the wisdom with which we bring science to bear in the war against disease, in the creation of new industries, and in the strengthening of our Armed Forces depends in large measure our future as a nation.
Vannevar Bush
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Strange how much simple wisdom there is to be found in the deformed head and unprepossessing carcase of your typical London cabbie.
Auberon Waugh -
Only the development of compassion and understanding for others can bring us the tranquility and happiness we all seek.
Dalai Lama -
We may have a tacit understanding of how our solar system works, but watching the sun disappear behind the moon reminds us of the vastness of space and the enduring mysteries of the universe we inhabit.
Jenna Wortham -
I hope those who shouted 'Fascist' and 'Nazi' are aware that before they were born I was fighting against Fascism and Nazism.
Enoch Powell -
Wisdom remembers. Happiness forgets.
Mason Cooley