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I remember confuting one of Westminster's favourite maxims, "better the devil you know than the devil you don't". In the annals of popular wisdom, this is one of the most cretinous sayings I have come across.

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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

• Outside of hip-hop, it was in comics that I most often found the aesthetics and wisdom of my world reflected.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • World
  • Wisdom
  • Hip Hop

• Patience is the companion of wisdom.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Wisdom
  • Patience
  • Companion

• 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.

  

  Beau Bridges
  • Respect
  • Wisdom
  • Listen

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

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Wisdom
  • Democracy
  • Ignorance

• One could surely argue that the Buddhist tradition, taken as a whole, represents the richest source of contemplative wisdom that any civilization has produced.

  

  Sam Harris
  • Taken
  • Wisdom
  • Tradition

• 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
  • American
  • War
  • Wisdom

• Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Die
  • Wisdom
  • Tomorrow

• If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.

  

  Abraham Maslow
  • Problem
  • Wisdom
  • See

• Wisdom is knowledge which has become a part of one's being.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Knowledge
  • Wisdom
  • Become

• 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.

  

  Walter Pater
  • Beautiful
  • Passion
  • Sense

• 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.

  

  Saint Basil
  • Up
  • Food
  • Water

• 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

• I remember when I wanted every pitch to be a strike.

  

  Ed Walsh
  • Remember
  • I Remember
  • Strike

• To suppose more than one supreme Source of infinite wisdom, power, and all perfections, is to assert that there is no supreme Being in existence.

  

  Adam Clarke
  • Power
  • Wisdom
  • Existence

• Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Nature
  • Wisdom
  • Patience

• O, what a tangled web we weave when first we practise to deceive!

  

  Walter Scott
  • Wisdom
  • First
  • Tangled

• 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
  • Good
  • Light
  • Change

• Rarely promise, but, if lawful, constantly perform.

  

  William Penn
  • Wisdom
  • Wise
  • Promise

• Abu Dharr once described the people of the world, says, "They breed what will they ultimately bury, they build what will eventually be destroy, they hold firm to what is emphemeral, and they forsake what is everlasting. Hence, blessed are the two cries people abominate most: Death and poverty.

  

  Abu Dhar al-Ghifari
  • People
  • World
  • Wisdom

• Immortality awaits the legislator fortunate enough to have a significant law named after him. Think of Pell grants or Stafford loans for students, Sarbanes-Oxley to regulate Wall Street, or the Hyde Amendment on abortions.

  

  Jim Cooper
  • Law
  • Wall

• I remember confuting one of Westminster's favourite maxims, "better the devil you know than the devil you don't". In the annals of popular wisdom, this is one of the most cretinous sayings I have come across.

  

  Coco Chanel
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