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Great spirits have always encountered opposition from mediocre minds. The mediocre mind is incapable of understanding the man who refuses to bow blindly to conventional prejudices and chooses instead to express his opinions courageously and honestly.
Albert Einstein
Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.
Matsuo Basho
Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.
Lactantius
The only thing that we know is that we know nothing and that is the highest flight of human wisdom.
Leo Tolstoy
We do not sit as a superlegislature to weigh the wisdom of legislation.
William O. Douglas
Public opinion is no more than this: what people think that other people think.
Alfred Austin
Mysterious language is not a sign of wisdom. The wiser a person is, the simpler the language he uses to express his thoughts.
A library of wisdom, is more precious than all wealth, and all things that are desirable cannot be compared to it. Whoever therefore claims to be zealous of truth, of happiness, of wisdom or knowledge, must become a lover of books.
Plato
When an opponent comes forward, move in and greet him if he wants to pull back, send him on his way.
Morihei Ueshiba
However, I must not indulge in homespun wisdom here before so distinguished an assembly, especially as I am to be followed by a representative of science.
Knut Hamsun
Around '93, '94, the conventional wisdom about the Internet was that it was a toy for academics and researchers. So it was very, very underestimated for about two years.
Marc Andreessen
The pine stays green in winter... wisdom in hardship.
Norman Douglas
Wisdom is like electricity. There is no permanently wise man, but men capable of wisdom, who, being put into certain company, or other favorable conditions, become wise for a short time, as glasses rubbed acquire electric power for a while.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Clubs, Soci
The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.
Aristotle
I've always shied away from conventional wisdom, though I know the power of it.
Peter Jennings
Windmill or no windmill, he said, life would go on as it had always gone on--that is, badly.
George Orwell
It may almost be a question whether such wisdom as many of us have in our mature years has not come from the dying out of the power of temptation, rather than as the results of thought and resolution.
Anthony Trollope
Remembering is painful, it's difficult, but it can be inspiring and it can give wisdom.
Paul Greengrass
Cunning... is but the low mimic of wisdom.
Even by common wisdom, there seem to be both people and objects in my dream that are outside myself, but clearly they were created in myself and are part of me, they are mental constructs in my own brain.
Ray Kurzweil