Please all, and you will please none.
Aesop
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Rediscovering the wisdom of love and compassion may help us survive at a time when an increasingly balkanized world so badly needs it.
Dean Ornish
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Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom.
Charlie Parker
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Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues.
Abigail Adams
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The more you meditate on the laws of Moses, the more striking and brighter does their wisdom appear.
John Quincy Adams
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If an idea is indeed sensible, it will eventually become just part of the accepted wisdom.
Nigel Farage
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I think there is a complicated side effect to overcoming evil in that we are forever changed by it. I think after we ingest some of the cruelty of the world, it takes years off of our lives, but it also gives us wisdom and a little grace, hopefully a sense of compassion.
Adam Rapp
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What makes Superman a hero is not that he has power, but that he has the wisdom and the maturity to use the power wisely. From an acting point of view, that's how I approached the part.
Christopher Reeve
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After many years of great mercy, after tasting of the powers of the world to come, we still are so weak, so foolish; but, oh! when we get away from self to God, there all is truth and purity and holiness, and our heart finds peace, wisdom, completeness, delight, joy, victory.
Charles Spurgeon
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Don't taunt the alligator until after you've crossed the creek.
Dan Rather
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Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn't be done.
Amelia Earhart
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It's a horrible idea that God, this paragon of wisdom and knowledge, power, couldn't think of a better way to forgive us our sins than to come down to Earth in his alter ego as his son and have himself hideously tortured and executed so that he could forgive himself.
Richard Dawkins
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It is good even for old men to learn wisdom.
Aeschylus
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The conventional wisdom in an election year is that nothing will get done until after the election.
Christine Todd Whitman
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Doubt is the vestibule through which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom.
Charles Caleb Colton
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Perhaps too much of everything is as bad as too little.
Edna Ferber
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What a company's been earning doesn't mean anything. What you have to look at is what people think it's going to earn. If you can see something in two years is going to be entirely different than the conventional wisdom, that's how you make money.
Stanley Druckenmiller
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Not a single illegal immigrant should or need enter the United States, not one. Contrary to the common wisdom, the borders are easy to seal, and controlling entry is hardly totalitarian.
Mark Helprin
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While conventional wisdom has traditionally sided against borrowing from retirement savings, sentiment has shifted toward borrowing from one's own assets with the realization that other forms of credit come at a much higher cost and often are not even available to borrowers with limited means and urgent needs.
Elaine Chao
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There are three methods to gaining wisdom. The first is reflection, which is the highest. The second is limitation, which is the easiest. The third is experience, which is the bitterest.
Confucius
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If I can turn the most powerful part of the world into a land of wisdom and compassion, it's going to change the rest of the world.
Chade-Meng Tan
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Second, this epic tale allows the audience to actually listen to the Native Americans and receive their wisdom. Spielberg conveys the respect for Native Americans that is normally lacking in Western films.
Beau Bridges
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Quick decisions are unsafe decisions.
Sophocles
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Silence and reserve will give anyone a reputation for wisdom.
Myrtle Reed
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