John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes
One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know.
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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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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.
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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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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.
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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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We are wiser than we know.
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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.
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Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.
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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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Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.
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If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.
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We can't really digest food unless there's hunger. So we can't really assimilate spiritual wisdom unless we feel the need for it.
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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.
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I feel like I've matured more musically than I have personally. But I totally embrace what becoming older has to offer. I find the wisdom that comes with each passing year is a trip.
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Scoutmasters need to enter into boys' ambitions.
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I don't think restaurants should refuse to serve minority people. They are quite tasty when prepared correctly.
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In terms of the historical record, I should also point out that there is no account in any ancient source whatsoever about King Herod slaughtering children in or around Bethlehem, or anyplace else. No other author, biblical or otherwise, mentions this event. Is it, like John's account of Jesus' death, a detail made up by Matthew in order to make some kind of theological point?
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One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know.
