Amos Bronson Alcott Quotes
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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 -
Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.
Pablo Picasso -
We are wiser than we know.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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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.
Nathaniel Hawthorne -
They see me as being this Super Mom on TV who also can more than handle a difficult husband, and they assume I'm going to be just full of wisdom as a mother and wife myself.
Patricia Richardson -
If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.
Napoleon Bonaparte -
Kabbalah is all about change. It isn't about being proud of our good qualities: the wisdom is about transforming our darkness into light.
Yehuda Berg -
Kisses are a better fate than wisdom.
e. e. cummings -
Set your course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.
Omar N. Bradley
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Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
Samuel Johnson -
Giving opens the way for receiving.
Florence Scovel Shinn -
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 -
It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.
Mahatma Gandhi -
It isn't right to judge strength as better than good wisdom.
Xenophanes -
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
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One man's justice is another's injustice; one man's beauty another's ugliness; one man's wisdom another's folly.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
Silence is a fence around wisdom.
Maimonides -
I remember, as a kid, going into other people's houses. Everything was different. The smells in the kitchen were different; the clothing was different. That bothered me. There's something very mysterious about other families and the way they function.
Sam Shepard -
For some people, what really matters to them is sleep.
Marissa Mayer -
I know that's definitely the way for me to run races - instead of trying to burn up at the front and blowing up, it's always better to be passing people at the end.
Eloise Wellings -
Prudence is the footprint of Wisdom.
Amos Bronson Alcott