More than any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other, to total extinction. Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly.
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Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something.
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Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
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I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
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Many a crown of wisdom is but the golden chamberpot of success, worn with pompous dignity.
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Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge Where is the knowledge we have lost in information
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The founding fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents. So they provided jails called schools, equipped with tortures called education. School is where you go between when your parents can't take you and industry can't take you.
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You shall go with me, newly married bride, And gaze upon a merrier multitude. White armed Nuala, Aengus of the Birds, Feachra of the hurtling form, and himWho is the ruler of the Western Host, Finvara, and their Land of Heart's Desire. Where beauty has no ebb, decay no flood, But joy is wisdom, time an endless song.
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Above all, we must abolish hope in the heart of man. A calm despair, without angry convulsions, without reproaches to Heaven, is the essence of wisdom.
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It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to heaven, we were all doing direct the other way in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only.
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The path to success is to take massive, determined action.
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To profit from good advice requires more wisdom than to give it.
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Through me you pass into the city of woe: Through me you pass into eternal pain: Through me among the people lost for aye. Justice the founder of my fabric moved: To rear me was the task of power divine, Supremest wisdom, and primeval love. Before me things cr
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Accuse not nature, she hath done her part; Do thou but thine, and be not diffidentOf wisdom, she deserts thee not, if thouDismiss not her, when most thou needest her nigh, By attributing overmuch to thingsLess excellent, as thou thyself perceivest.
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Wisdom is what's left after we've run out of personal opinions.
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If you leave home for a while.. You question the conventional wisdom you've grown up with. That doesn't mean you have to change your opinions or who you are, but it's good to ask the questions.
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A child's hand in yours what tenderness and power it arouses. You are instantly the very touchstone of wisdom and strength.
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To know that one knows what one knows, and to know that one doesn't know what one doesn't know, there lies true wisdom.
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Under a ragged coat lies wisdom.
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Surely, God on high has not refused to give us enough wisdom to find ways to bring us an improvement.. In relations between the two great nations on earth.
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There are times when fear is good. It must keep its watchful place at the heart's controls. There is advantage in the wisdom won from pain.
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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 to be obeyed.
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Doubt is the vestibule through which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom.
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Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust.
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The experience to be gathered from books, Though often valuable, is but of the nature of learning Whereas the experience gained from actual life, Is of the nature of wisdom And a small store of the latter Is worth vastly more than a stock of the former.
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