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• I think there has always been an obsession with youth and beauty. What's missing is the equal obsession with respect for…older people…and their wisdom and knowledge and courage.

  Julie Christie

  Thinking, People, Missing

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• Everyone recognizes a distinction between knowledge and wisdom. . . Wisdom is a kind of knowledge. It is knowledge of the nature, career, and consequences of human values. Since these cannot be separated from the human organism and the social scene, the moral ways of man cannot be understood without knowledge of the ways of things and institutions.

  Sidney Hook

  Men, Careers, Way

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• Now all the knowledge and wisdom that is in creatures, whether angels or men, is nothing else but a participation of that one eternal, immutable and increased wisdom of God.

  Ralph Cudworth

  Angel, Men, Participation

  Ralph Cudworth (1845). “The True Intellectual System of the Universe: Wherein All the Reason and Philosophy of Atheism is Confuted, and Its Impossibility Demonstrated : with a Treatise Concerning Eternal and Immutable Morality”, p.539

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• When wisdom and knowledge appear, great pretense arises.

  Laozi

  Knowledge, Taoism, Arise

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• Those who have abandoned themselves to God always lead mysterious lives and receive from him exceptional and miraculous gifts by means of the most ordinary, natural and chance experiences in which there appears to be nothing unusual. The simplest sermon, the most banal conversations, the least erudite books become a source of knowledges and wisdom to these souls by virtue of God's purpose. This is why they carefully pick up the crumbs which clever minds tread underfoot, for to them everything is precious and a source of enrichment.

  Jean-Pierre de Caussade

  Clever, Book, Mean

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• To a good man, God gives not only wisdom and knowledge, but joy.

  Matthew Henry

  Men, Giving, Joy

  Matthew Henry (2011). “Grant Me Wisdom”, p.95, Barbour Publishing

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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

  Inspirational, Life, Wisdom

  Igor Stravinsky, Robert Craft (1966). “Themes and episodes”

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• With billions of years, who knows what science might make possible? Why, it might even make it possible for an intelligence, or data patterns representing it, to survive a big crunch and exist again in the next cycle of creation. Such an entity might even have science sufficient to allow it to influence the parameters for the next cycle, creating a designer universe into which that entity itself will be reborn already armed with billions of years worth of knowledge and wisdom.

  Robert J. Sawyer

  Technology, Data, Creating

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• Circumstances do not push or pull. They are daily lessons to be studied and gleaned for new knowledge and wisdom. Knowledge and wisdom that is applied will bring about a brighter tomorrow. A person who is depressed is spending too much time thinking about the way things are now and not enough time thinking about how he wants things to be.

  Andy Andrews

  Life, Thinking, Enough Time

  Andy Andrews (2005). “The Traveler's Gift: Seven Decisions that Determine Personal Success”, p.155, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• I'm at the transition place myself, still playing high school girls but moving to a stage when I'm playing older roles and going to the places of stillness and wisdom and knowledge and weight. It's exciting and scary.

  Tatiana Maslany

  Girl, Moving, School

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• In many of the more relaxed civilizations on the Outer Eastern Rim of the Galaxy, the Hitch-Hiker's Guide has already supplanted the great Encyclopaedia Galactica as the standard repository of all knowledge and wisdom, for though it has many omissions and contains much that is apocryphal, or at least wildly inaccurate, it scores over the older, more pedestrian work in two important respects. First, it is slightly cheaper; and secondly it has the words DON'T PANIC inscribed in large friendly letters on its cover.

  Douglas Adams

  Civilization, Two, Omission

  Douglas Adams (2009). “The Restaurant at the End of the Universe”, p.27, Pan Macmillan

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• In humility alone lies true greatness, and knowledge and wisdom are profitable only in so far as our lives are governed by them.

  Nicholas of Cusa

  Lying, Humility, Greatness

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• Knowledge and wisdom must go hand in hand. The adept will therefore endeavour to get on in knowledge as well as in wisdom, for neither of the two must lag behind in development.

  Franz Bardon

  Hands, Two, Magic

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• If knowledge and wisdom keep the same pace in development, the adept is enabled to grasp all the laws of the microcosm and the microcosm, not only from the point of view of wisdom, but also from the intellectual side, that is, in a bipolar way, to perceive and utilize them for his own development.

  Franz Bardon

  Views, Law, Bipolar

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• Unlock the power of the will. Learn balance and gain the knowledge and wisdom necessary to guide those powers, to succeed in sports and athletics.

  Frederick Lenz

  Sports, Health, Buddhism

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• Once and for all, there are many things I choose not to know.--Wisdom sets limits even to knowledge.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Wisdom, Knowledge, Limits

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• You would not have the wisdom and knowledge you now possess were it not for the setbacks you have faced, the mistakes you have made and the suffering you have endured.

  Robin Sharma

  Mistake, Suffering, Made

  Robin Sharma (2003). “Who Will Cry When You Die?: Life Lessons From The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari”, p.19, Jaico Publishing House

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• The power of admiring whatever is deserving of admiration, the nice and quick perception of the beautiful and the true, is one of the highest and noblest of our faculties, born of taste, and knowledge, and wisdom, or rather it is taste, and wisdom, and knowledge, in one rare and great combination.

  Mary Russell Mitford

  Beautiful, Appreciation, Nice

  MARY RUSSELL MITFORD (1870). “OUR VILLAGE”, p.406

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• Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Life, Education, Wise

  'Locksley Hall' (1842) l. 141

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• Imagination is more important than knowledge.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Positive, Leadership

  Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.32, St. Martin's Press

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  The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge.

  Daniel J. Boorstin

  Inspiring, Education, Wisdom

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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  I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.

  Winston Churchill

  Funny, Leadership, Education

  Sir Winston Churchill (1966). “Irrepressible Churchill: a treasury of Winston Churchill's wit”

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• If men of wisdom and knowledge, of moderation and temperance, of patience, fortitude and perseverance, of sobriety and true republican simplicity of manners, of zeal for the honour of the Supreme Being and the welfare of the commonwealth; if men possessed of these other excellent qualities are chosen to fill the seats of government, we may expect that our affairs will rest on a solid and permanent foundation.

  Samuel Adams

  Perseverance, Men, Voting

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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

  Son, Thinking, Ideas

  "Religion and Atheism". "Q&A" with Tony Jones, www.abc.net.au. April 9, 2012.

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• The offer of certainty, the offer of complete security, the offer of an impermeable faith that can’t give way, is an offer of something not worth having. I want to live my life taking the risk all the time that I don’t know anything like enough yet; that I haven’t understood enough; that I can’t know enough; that I’m always hungrily operating on the margins of a potentially great harvest of future knowledge and wisdom. I wouldn’t have it any other way.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Giving, Risk, Want

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