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The more I work with the body, keeping my assumptions in a temporary state of reservation, the more I appreciate and sympathize with a given disease. The body no longer appears as a sick or irrational demon, but as a process with its own inner logic and wisdom.
George MacDonald
You want people walking away from the conversation with some kernel of wisdom or some kind of impact.
Harry Dean Stanton
Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun.
Franz Grillparzer
Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.
George Santayana
Discipline is wisdom and vice versa.
M. Scott Peck
The extreme limit of wisdom, that's what the public calls madness.
Jean Cocteau
The most important lesson of New Labour is this: Every time we made progress we did it by challenging the conventional wisdom.
Ed Miliband
All free governments are managed by the combined wisdom and folly of the people.
James A. Garfield
Wisdom and understanding can only become the possession of individual men by travelling the old road of observation, attention, perseverance, and industry.
Samuel Smiles
One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know.
John Kenneth Galbraith
If you wish to know the road up the mountain, ask the man who goes back and forth on it.
Zenrin
With these celestial Wisdom calms the mind, And makes the happiness she does not find.
Samuel Johnson
When we venture in that unfamiliar sea, we trust blindly in those who guide us, believing that they know more than we do.
Paulo Coelho
And when the world is created, it is created in such a way that those eternal objects of God's loving wisdom become actualities - interacting with one another, relating to God in the finite realm.
Rowan D. Williams
He whose wisdom cannot help him, gets no good from being wise.
Quintus Ennius
Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know -- and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance. It is better to know -- even if the knowledge endures only for the moment that comes before destruction -- than to gain eternal life at the price of a dull and swinish lack of comprehension of a universe that swirls unseen before us in all its wonder. That was the choice of Achilles, and it is mine, too.
Isaac Asimov
I AM IGNORANT of absolute truth. But I am humble before my ignorance and therein lies my honor and my reward.
Kahlil Gibran
Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.
Wallace Stegner, The Spectator B
As a parent and a citizen, I'll take a Bill Gates (or Warren Buffett) over Steve Jobs every time. If we must have billionaires, better they should ignore Jobs's example and instead embrace the morality and wisdom of the great industrialist-philanthropist Andrew Carnegie.
Eric Alterman
So wise so young, they say, do never live long.
William Shakespeare