#wisdom

We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

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Peace is a fragile thing. It takes courage to secure it. It takes wisdom to maintain it. ↗

— Jenny Shipley

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Through mutual understanding, sincerity and goodwill, and with great wisdom and broad views, the leaders on both sides should jointly initiate new opportunities for peace, stability, cooperation and mutual benefit. ↗

— Chen Shui-bian

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

— Charles Simmons

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Virtue comes through contemplation of the divine, and the exercise of philosophy. But it also comes through public service. The one is incomplete without the other. Power without wisdom is tyranny; wisdom without power is pointless. ↗

— Iain Pears

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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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I always told, Sandra Bullock was my student when she was younger, I always told her it's important that we hold on to our insecurity, the wisdom of insecurity. ↗

— Sally Kirkland

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The novelist teaches the reader to comprehend the world as a question. There is wisdom and tolerance in that attitude. In a world built on sacrosanct certainties the novel is dead. ↗

— Milan Kundera

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The stupidity of people comes from having an answer for everything. The wisdom of the novel comes from having a question for everything. ↗

— Milan Kundera

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Back of every mistaken venture and defeat is the laughter of wisdom, if you listen. ↗

— Carl Sandburg

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