Constantin Stanislavski Quotes
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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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Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
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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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With age comes common sense and wisdom.
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If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
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I'm Latin, for crying out loud - I can't hold anything back!
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The democratic system is premised on trust in the masses' wisdom. We believe that the collective is wiser than its parts and that, at the end of the day, it shall make the right choices and take the right decisions.
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Wisdom is knowledge which has become a part of one's being.
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When spirituality is the basis of your life, it gives you the strength, wisdom and courage to surmount the many storms of life that could destroy a weaker person who doesn't have this foundation.
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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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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.
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The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.
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When you betray somebody else, you also betray yourself.
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Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
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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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'Witches of East End' is certainly wild, and so are a lot of other shows these days. But 'Twin Peaks' still holds the gold medal for strange. I think we'll hang onto that for all of TV eternity!
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Looks didn’t last forever and she wasn’t ready for religion yet. Money was kind of a good compromise, staked up somewhere between cosmetics and eternity.
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For life is but a dream whose shapes return, some frequently, some seldom, some by night and some by day.
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You look around the world at geniuses, and they don't appear randomly, they appear in genius clusters. Athens in 50 BC, Florence 1500, Silicon Valley today. This is not a coincidence.
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I once watched an angry Zairian official very nearly strip and search the person of a CIA GS 17 who had forgotten to speak politely
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The greatest wisdom is to realize one's lack of it.
