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By the time you've reached your sixties, you do know that one day you will die, and knowing that is at least the beginning of wisdom.
Terry Pratchett
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Wisdom is knowing when you can't be wise.


Paul Engle
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One part of wisdom is knowing what you don't need anymore and letting it go.


Jane Fonda
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To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.


Bertrand Russell
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The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.


Solomon Ibn Gabirol
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Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom.


Theodore Isaac Rubin
True education is limited to those people who would die without knowing, whereas the masses in the institutions are merely going through the motions, for education is a way of living.
Bryant H. McGill
One idea I explore in my stand-up show is whether, if you try looking at the universe rationally and avoid coping mechanisms like mysticism or religion, you can still be happy knowing you are going to die after a brief time on this spinning ball.
Robin Ince
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In the beginning, Adam was instructed to earn the bread by the sweat of his brow - not Eve. Contrary to conventional wisdom, a mother's place is in the home!
Ezra Taft Benson
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This fear of the Lord is indeed the beginning of wisdom. This consciousness of sin is the straight pathway to heaven.
Joseph Barber Lightfoot
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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We're all going to die.


Elizabeth Edwards
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In politics, you never know who's going to die, retire, or - in Illinois - get indicted.


Aaron Schock
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One might be led to suspect that there were all sorts of things going on in the universe which he or she did not thoroughly understand.
Kurt Vonnegut
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The music is going to die if you don't tap into something that people today can relate to.


Robert Glasper
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The most important thing for me is having a relationship with God. To know that the owner, the creator of the universe loves you, sent His Son to die for your sins; that's very empowering. Knowing Him and knowing that He loves me gives me encouragement and confidence to move forward.
Ben Carson
Perhaps religious conscience upsets the designs of those who feel that the highest wisdom and authority comes from government. But from the beginning, this nation trusted in God, not man. Religious liberty is the first freedom in our Constitution.
Mitt Romney
Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two. A constant coming and going: wisdom lies in the momentary.
Octavio Paz
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In Chicago, I walked in knowing what the dancers were going to need.


Colleen Atwood
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Beauty is about perception, not about make-up. I think the beginning of all beauty is knowing and liking oneself. You can't put on make-up, or dress yourself, or do you hair with any sort of fun or joy if you're doing it from a position of correction.
Kevyn Aucoin
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