Wisdom Quotes
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If a person tells me he has been to the worst places I have no reason to judge him; but if he tells me it was his superior wisdom that enabled him to go there, then I know he is a fraud.
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All human wisdom is contained in these words: Wait and hope!
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Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance.
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A monarchy conducted with infinite wisdom and infinite benevolence is the most perfect of all possible governments.
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The wisdom of crowds works when the crowd is choosing the price of an ox, when there's a single numeric average. But if it's a design or something that matters, the decision is made by committee, and that's crap. You want people and groups who are able to think thoughts before they share.
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It's funny, because in deference to conventional wisdom, I spent my struggling writer years trying to suppress my naturally baroque literary voice and write clean, spare prose. I finally gave up and embraced my baroque tendencies when I wrote the Kushiel series.
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The conventional wisdom in an election year is that nothing will get done until after the election.
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Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun.
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One key to success is knowing the difference between knowledge and wisdom. One is information from the past while the other is the key to the future.
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Wisdom oft lurks beneath a tattered coat.
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Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.
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There are things greater than our wisdom, beyond our justice. The right and wrong of this we cannot say, and it is not for us to judge.
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People always blame the girl; she should have said no. A monosyllable, but conventional wisdom has always been that boys can't manage it.
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The more tranquil a man becomes, the greater is his success, his influence, his power for good. Calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom.
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Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?
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Ah, lady! it is hardly what you thought it, This life of luxury and social power; You gave yourself as principal, and bought it, But God extracts the interest hour by hour.
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People usually compare the computer to the head of the human being. I would say that hardware is the bone of the head, the skull. The semiconductor is the brain within the head. The software is the wisdom. And data is the knowledge.
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A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.
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That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in another.
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Love must kiss that mortal's eyesWho hopes to see fair Arcady.No gold can buy you entrance there;But beggared Love may go all bare-No wisdom won with weariness;But Love goes in with Folly's dress-No fame that wit could ever win;But only Love may lead Love in.
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Blessed is he who has acquired a wealth of divine wisdom, but miserable he in whom there rests a dim opinion concerning the gods.
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Perfect wisdom has four parts: Wisdom, the principle of doing things aright. Justice, the principle of doing things equally in public and private. Fortitude, the principle of not fleeing danger, but meeting it. Temperance, the principle of subduing desires and living moderately.
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In societies where mature workers are respected and where their wisdom is respected, everybody benefits. Workers are more engaged and productive. Their health is better. They live longer.
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I now myself live, in every detail, striving for wisdom, while I formerly merely worshipped and idolized the wise.
