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Now it is time to turn to an older wisdom that, while respecting material comfort and security as a basic right of all, also recognises that many of the most valuable things in life cannot be measured.
Michael D. Higgins
Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact.
George Eliot
He was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the rich.
Evelyn Waugh
If you want to be found stand where the seeker seeks.
Sidney Lanier
In my own personal life, God plays a great role in the risk, because I pray before I go into the operating room for every case, and I ask him to give me wisdom, to help me to know what to do - and not only for operating, but for everything.
Benjamin Carson
People don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're happy.
Anton Chekhov
Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.
Alan Kay
The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.
Jean Paul
Though sages may pour out their wisdom's treasure, there is no sterner moralist than pleasure.
Lord Byron
Knowledge can be communicated, but wisdom cannot. A man can find it, he can live it, he can be filled and sustained by it, but he cannot utter or teach it.
Hermann Hesse
I have known it for a long time but I have only just experienced it. Now I know it not only with my intellect, but with my eyes, with my heart, with my stomach.
Just as a fire is covered by smoke and a mirror is obscured by dust, just as the embryo rests deep within the womb, wisdom is hidden by selfish desire.
Bhagavad Gita
Pain makes man think. Thought makes man wise. Wisdom makes life endurable.
John Patrick
The difference between chirping out of turn and a faux pas depends on what kind of a bar you're in.
Wilson Mizner
To build a great company, which is a CEO's job, sometimes you have to stand up against conventional wisdom.
Carly Fiorina
You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.
Naguib Mahfouz
Wisdom comes by disillusionment.
George Santayana
Virtues are acquired through endeavor, which rests wholly upon yourself.
It is not from reason that justice springs, but goodness is born of wisdom.
Maurice Maeterlinck
Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom.
Ralph Waldo Emerson