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• You can’t sweep other people off their feet, if you can’t be swept off your own.

  Clarence Day

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  Tags in People, Swept

• Contemplation and wisdom are highest achievements and man is not totally at home with them.

  Gabriel Marcel

  Topics in Achievement, Wisdom

  Tags in Contemplation

• I’m not in this world to live up to your expectations and you’re not in this world to live up to mine.

  Bruce Lee

  Topics in Expectations, Wisdom

  Tags in Individuality, Athlete

• 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.

  E. O. Wilson

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  The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions.

  John A. Simone Sr

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• We lead first by example! Everything we say or do sends a message, sets a tone, or teaches people what to do or what not to do.

  Sheila Murray Bethel

  Topics in Wisdom

• The perceived wisdom is that people do not go in large numbers to black-and-white movies anymore – which is a great shame, but I’d love to make a black-and-white movie one day.

  Sam Mendes

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• Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance.

  Saint Francis of Assisi

  Topics in Fear, Wisdom

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• Our wisdom comes from our experience, and our experience comes from our foolishness.

  Sacha Guitry

  Topics in Experience, Wisdom

• The most important lesson of New Labour is this: Every time we made progress we did it by challenging the conventional wisdom.

  Ed Miliband

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  Tags in Conventional

• There’s the conventional wisdom, of which I have none, where you get a record deal, you get a publicist, you get a campaign, and you do the tour, but none of that adds up to things like nuance and subtlety and dynamic.

  Chris Robinson

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  Tags in Conventional, Deal

• Wisdom is oftentimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar.

  William Wordsworth

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• Wisdom alone is true ambition’s aim, wisdom the source of virtue, and of fame, obtained with labour, for mankind employed, and then, when most you share it, best enjoyed.

  William Whitehead

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• I didn’t get where I am today by worryin’ about how I’d feel tomorrow.

  Ron Dee White

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• The wisdom of the wise is an uncommon degree of common sense.

  William Ralph Inge

  Topics in Wisdom, Wise

• It is costly wisdom that is bought by experience.

  Roger Ascham

  Topics in Experience, Wisdom

• Much of the wisdom of one age, is the folly of the next.

  Charles Simmons

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  Tags in Next

• 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.

  Charles Parker Jr.

  Topics in Experience, Wisdom

  Tags in Music, Thoughts

• Many people have their reputations as reporters and analysts because they are on television, batting around conventional wisdom. A lot of these people have never reported a story.

  Robert Upshur Woodward

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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 H. Levi

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