John Buchan Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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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.
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Turn your wounds into wisdom.
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Patience is the companion of wisdom.
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Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
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I'm a member of the 1960s generation. We didn't have any wisdom.
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One could surely argue that the Buddhist tradition, taken as a whole, represents the richest source of contemplative wisdom that any civilization has produced.
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My parents owned a plants nursery. We all grew up growing things and planting things and selling things, and I also managed landscape crews.
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Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.
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The sweetest of all sounds is praise.
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Initially, when I joined Twitter, I was active. But, later, I felt that whatever I was tweeting or saying on a social platform turned out to be a little boring.
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If your writing collides with the conventional wisdom, there's going to be some kind of friction.
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I didn't get interested in education until I had kids.
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Life is a travelling to the edge of knowledge, then a leap taken.
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Wisdom is knowledge which has become a part of one's being.
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The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool; the truest heroism is to resist the doubt; and the profoundest wisdom, to know when it ought to be resisted, and when it be obeyed.
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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.
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The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.
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When you betray somebody else, you also betray yourself.
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The young people of today think of nothing but themselves. They have no reverence for parents or old age. They are impatient of all restraint. They talk as if they alone knew everything and what passes for wisdom with us is foolishness with them. As for girls, they are forward, immodest and unwomanly in speech, behaviour and dress.
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I just lost my best friend, I have been crying hysterical for a full day.
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I once watched an angry Zairian official very nearly strip and search the person of a CIA GS 17 who had forgotten to speak politely
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The engine of growth is also the engine of inequality.
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Do nothing by halves which can be done by quarters.
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Boldness, and still boldness, was the only wisdom. To be cautious was to be rash.
