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It's surprising how much wisdom every man possesses -- if not for his own affairs, then for the affairs of others.

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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
  • Wisdom
  • Speak
  • Tongue

• Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Wisdom
  • Democracy
  • Ignorance

• 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.

  

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • May
  • Wisdom
  • Doubt

• If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Done
  • Want
  • Wisdom

• If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner.

  

  Omar N. Bradley
  • May
  • Technology
  • Wisdom

• The best thing that happens to us is when a great company gets into temporary trouble... We want to buy them when they're on the operating table. 'Homespun Wisdom from the 'Oracle of Omaha'' Businessweek (5 July 1999)

  

  Warren Buffett
  • Great
  • Wisdom

• Silence is a fence around wisdom.

  

  Maimonides
  • Wisdom
  • Silence
  • Fence

• With them the seed of Wisdom did I sow, And with mine own hand wrought to make it grow; And this was all the Harvest that I reap'd - 'I came like Water, and like Wind I go'.

  

  Omar Khayyam
  • Hand
  • Water
  • Wisdom

• ...Wisdom says: be strong! Then canst thou bear more joy. Be not animal; refine thy rapture! If thou drink, drink by the eight and ninety rules of art: if thou love, exceed by delicacy; and if thou do aught joyous, let there be subtlety therein!

  

  Aleister Crowley
  • Art
  • Strong
  • Joy

• Writing is no dying art form in America because most published writers here accept the wisdom and the necessity of encouraging the talent that follows in their footsteps.

  

  Elizabeth George
  • Writing
  • Art
  • America

• I am not the first Buddha who came upon Earth, nor shall I be the last. In due time, another Buddha will arise in the world - a Holy One, a supremely enlightened One, endowed with wisdom in conduct, auspicious, knowing the universe, an incomparable leader of men, a master of angels and mortals.

  

  Buddha
  • Time
  • World
  • Men

• I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship.

  

  Pietro Aretino
  • Friends
  • Wisdom
  • Friendship

• There is no greater privilege in living than bringing a tiny new human being into the world and then trying to raise him or her properly during the next eighteen years. Doing that job right requires all the intelligence, wisdom, and determination you will be able to muster from day to day.

  

  James Dobson
  • World
  • Trying
  • Job

• All human wisdom works and has worries and grief as reward.

  

  Johann Georg Hamann
  • Wisdom
  • Grief

• Wisdom cannot prevent a fall, but may cushion it.

  

  Mason Cooley
  • May
  • Fall
  • Wisdom

• Not all the wisdom and skill of man can produce life in the smallest object in nature.

  

  Ellen G. White
  • Life
  • Nature
  • Wisdom

• In recent years we've seen an explosion of creative programming, and I think it represents a third golden age of television because the creators have more control over the story. The audience doesn't care about the platform. They care about the content.

  

  Kevin Spacey
  • Thinking
  • Age
  • Control

• It would be wonderful to think that the future is unknown and sort of surprising.

  

  Alan Rickman
  • Future
  • Unknown
  • Surprising

• The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.

  

  Aristotle
  • Wisdom
  • Justice
  • Virtue

• For it is not possible to join serpentine wisdom with columbine innocence, except men know exactly all the conditions of the serpent: his baseness and going upon his belly, his volubility and lubricity, his envy and sting, and the rest; that is, all forms and natures of evil: for without this, virtue lieth open and unfenced.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Wisdom
  • Innocence
  • Nature Of Evil

• You find surprising things about the privite life of a country when you invide it.

  

  Evan Wright
  • Country
  • Surprising
  • Private Life

• Turn resolutely to work, to recreation, or in any case to physical exercise till you are so tired you can't help going to sleep, and when you wake up you won't want to worry.

  

  B. C. Forbes
  • Up
  • Work
  • Help

• It's surprising how much wisdom every man possesses -- if not for his own affairs, then for the affairs of others.

  

  Evan Esar
  • Wisdom
  • Affairs
  • Surprising