Euripides Quotes
Learned we may be with another man's learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own: [I hate a sage who is not wise for himself]
Quotes to Explore
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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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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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With age comes common sense and wisdom.
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The sweetest of all sounds is praise.
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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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If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
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We are wiser than we know.
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Now, if you notice how the swan, putting its neck down into the deep water, brings up food for itself from below, then you will discover the wisdom of the Creator, in that He gave it a neck longer than its feet for this reason, that it might, as if lowering a sort of fishing line, procure the food hidden in the deep water.
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Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.
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One of the things I was so glad that happened to me on Knots was that I learned to relax.
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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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Yes, actually ever since I saw his films and tried to write about them, Sirk's been in everything I've done. Not Sirk himself, but what I've learned from his work.
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On the landscape crew, I learned a lot from the other workers. We treated everybody equally, and we worked hard.
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Then I learned how to do wraparounds and things like that. I had no experience.
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It used to be, it is accepted scientific wisdom the Earth is flat, and this heretic named Galileo was branded a denier.
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It is hard to know which is the more remarkable- that it took 600 million years for the Earth to make its oil, or that it took 300 years to use it up.
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The fast-growing hospitality industry is very much in need of skilled workers. Thousands of workers will benefit from the outreach, English literacy and occupational skills.
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Predators make it much more difficult to find consensus. It's a lot easier to agree about birds and plants than about animals that endanger people and livestock.
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America needs to be a place where all of us can feel a part of the American dream. But it will not happen by dividing us into racial groups. It will not happen by trying to turn the poor against the rich. It will not happen by asking Americans to accept what is immoral and wrong in the name of tolerance.
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It is not only important how long your breath is. What is more important is how smooth and subtle it is. For length of breath without the accompanying subtlety is fruitless.
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Learned we may be with another man's learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own: [I hate a sage who is not wise for himself]
