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Winning is not everything, but wanting to win is.
– Vince Lombardi
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If you want to be found stand where the seeker seeks.
– Sidney Lanier
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Virtues are acquired through endeavor, which rests wholly upon yourself.
– Sidney Lanier
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As an instrument for practical action, law is responsive to the wisdom of its time, which may be wrong, but it carries forward, sometimes in opposition to this wisdom or passion, a memory of received values.
– Edward Levi
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Few of the many wise apothegms which have been uttered have prevented a single foolish action.
– Thomas Babington Macaulay
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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
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Conventional wisdom notwithstanding, there is no reason either in football or in poetry why the two should not meet in a man's life if he has the weight and cares about the words.
– Archibald MacLeish
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It is not from reason that justice springs, but goodness is born of wisdom.
– Maurice Maeterlinck
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If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.
– Nelson Mandela
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Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity.
– Og Mandino
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Wisdom is knowledge which has become a part of one's being.
– Orison Swett Marden
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Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
– H. L. Mencken
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To profit from good advice requires more wisdom than to give it.
– Wilson Mizner
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The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.
– Michel de Montaigne
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We can be knowledgable with other men's knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.
– Michel de Montaigne
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In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.
– John Muir
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Follow the wisdom of the great actor, James Cagney, you hit your mark, you look the other guy in the eye, and you tell the truth.
– Larry Merchant
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Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?
– Friedrich Nietzsche
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There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.
– Friedrich Nietzsche
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My past is my wisdom to use today... my future is my wisdom yet to experience. Be in the present because that is where life resides.
– Gene Oliver
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Every speaker has a mouth; An arrangement rather neat. Sometimes it's filled with wisdom. Sometimes it's filled with feet.
– Robert Orben
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Virtues are acquired through endeavor, Which rests wholly upon yourself. So, to praise others for their virtues Can but encourage one's own efforts.
– Thomas Paine
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Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn. They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art.
– Charlie Parker
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Who knows for what we live, and struggle, and die?... Wise men write many books, in words too hard to understand. But this, the purpose of our lives, the end of all our struggle, is beyond all human wisdom.
– Alan Paton
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Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.
– Octavio Paz
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He who is taught to live upon little owes more to his father's wisdom than he who has a great deal left him does to his father's care.
– William Penn
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Even wisdom has to yield to self-interest.
– Pindar
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Cunning... is but the low mimic of wisdom.
– Plato
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Knowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom.
– Plato
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The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation, the man of manly character and of wisdom.
– Plato
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There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain.
– Plato
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Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.
– Titus Maccius Plautus
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Has fortune dealt you some bad cards. Then let wisdom make you a good gamester.
– Francis Quarles
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Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.
– Francis Quarles
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And, if we have any evidence that the wisdom which formed the plan is in the man, we have the very same evidence, that the power which executed it is in him also.
– Thomas Reid
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Every indication of wisdom, taken from the effect, is equally an indication of power to execute what wisdom planned.
– Thomas Reid
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Strong characters are brought out by change of situation, and gentle ones by permanence.
– Jean Paul Richter
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Don't follow any advice, no matter how good, until you feel as deeply in your spirit as you think in your mind that the counsel is wise.
– Joan Rivers
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The Divine wisdom has given us prayer, not as a means whereby to obtain the good things of earth, but as a means whereby we learn to do without them; not as a means whereby we escape evil, but as a means whereby we become strong to meet it.
– Frederick William Robertson
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It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.
– Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it.
– Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Singleness of purpose is one of the chief essentials for success in life, no matter what may be one's aim.
– John D. Rockefeller
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Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.
– Jim Rohn
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Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time.
– Theodore Roosevelt
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Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained.
– Joseph Roux
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Both in thought and in feeling, even though time be real, to realise the unimportance of time is the gate of wisdom.
– Bertrand Russell
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Silence and reserve will give anyone a reputation for wisdom.
– Myrtle Reed
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Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom.
– Theodore Isaac Rubin
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A proverb is the wisdom of many and the wit of one.
– Lord John Russell
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Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.
– Rabindranath Tagore
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When I can look life in the eyes, grown calm and very coldly wise, life will have given me the truth, and taken in exchange - my youth.
– Sara Teasdale
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Man's wisdom is his best friend; folly his worst enemy.
– William Temple
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Who is wise in love, love most, say least.
– Alfred Lord Tennyson
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All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man.
– Henry David Thoreau
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It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.
– Henry David Thoreau
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It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.
– Henry David Thoreau
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To think the world therefore a general Bedlam, or place of madmen, and oneself a physician, is the most necessary point of present wisdom: an important imagination, and the way to happiness.
– Thomas Traherne
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Memory is not wisdom; idiots can by rote repeat volumes. Yet what is wisdom without memory?
– Martin Fraquhar Tupper
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Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.
– Phyllis Theroux
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Some of the best lessons we ever learn are learned from past mistakes. The error of the past is the wisdom and success of the future.
– Dale E. Turner
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Always keep your mind as bright and clear as the vast sky, the great ocean, and the highest peak, empty of all thoughts. Always keep your body filled with light and heat. Fill yourself with the power of wisdom and enlightenment.
– Morihei Ueshiba
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When an opponent comes forward, move in and greet him; if he wants to pull back, send him on his way.
– Morihei Ueshiba
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Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.
– Ludwig van Beethoven
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The less you talk, the more you're listened to.
– Abigail Van Buren
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You must accept responsibility for your actions, but not the credit for your achievements.
– Denis Waitley
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Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use.
– Thomas J. Watson
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Wisdom begins at the end.
– Daniel Webster
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Life is the only real counselor; wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue.
– Edith Wharton
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The truest greatness lies in being kind, the truest wisdom in a happy mind.
– Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom. The world henceforth will be run by synthesizers, people able to put together the right information at the right time, think critically about it, and make important choices wisely.
– Edward O. Wilson
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Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.
– Tom Wilson
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Turn your wounds into wisdom.
– Oprah Winfrey
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It seems to me that, in every culture, I come across a chapter headed ''Wisdom.'' And then I know exactly what is going to follow: ''Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.''
– Ludwig Wittgenstein
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Honesty is the best policy; but he who is governed by that maxim is not an honest man.
– Richard Whately
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Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought - asleep. When we are weary of the living, we may repair to the dead, who have nothing of peevishness, pride, or design in their conversation.
– William Butler Yeats
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There is no knowledge, no light, no wisdom that you are in possession of, but what you have received it from some source.
– Brigham Young
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Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech cantankerous.
– Zhuang Zi
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Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
– Anonymous
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Winners never quit and quitters never win.
– Anonymous
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Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.
– Archimedes
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Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.
– Thomas Jefferson
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Wisdom begins in wonder.
– Socrates
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Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way.
– Sophocles
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A man may learn wisdom even from a foe.
– Aristophanes
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Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech cantankerous.
– Chuang Tzu
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The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation.
– Benjamin Disraeli
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Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop away from you like the leaves of Autumn.
– John Muir
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If you believe the doctors, nothing is wholesome; if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent; if you believe the military, nothing is safe.
– Lord Salisbury
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I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled [poets] to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.
– Socrates
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Wisdom outweighs any wealth.
– Sophocles
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Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.
– Charles Haddon Spurgeon
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I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge.
– Igor Stravinsky
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To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.
– Marilyn vos Savant
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The opportunity for brotherhood presents itself every time you meet a human being.
– Jane Wyman
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Your art kind of changes as you get older, by nature of the fact that you're hopefully gaining wisdom and you're starting to watch things with a better overview.
– Sheryl Crow
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You want people walking away from the conversation with some kernel of wisdom or some kind of impact.
– Harry Dean Stanton
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You know, many people have said that I'm on the edge and I'm maverick for some of the big operations that I've done. I'm not at all. I pray I ask God to give me wisdom, 'Should I do it?', guidance in terms of how to do it, who to consult with. All those kind of things are incredibly important.
– Benjamin Carson
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You know, it's sort of common wisdom among New York publishers that short story collections don't make money.
– Chad Harbach
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You know how people always talk about how vision is the key to entrepreneurship and perseverance and really seeing what other people don't see? We can actually redeem a fair amount of that folk wisdom.
– Eric Ries
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You have to find out what's right for you, so it's trial and error. You are going to be all right if you accept realistic goals for yourself.
– Teri Garr
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