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Morrissey was my Mrs. Garrett, the house mother from the Facts of Life, a soothing adult figure giving me words of wisdom.

The 'wisdom of the crowds' is the most ridiculous statement I've heard in my life. Crowds are dumb.

Clergymen and people who use phrases without wisdom sometimes talk of suffering as a mystery. It is really a revelation.

Psychic phenomena does not mean wisdom; it only means mental understanding of the relationship of the outer world to the inner world.

The secret of literature, which conventional people don't guess, is that writers are forever looking for the surprising revelation - not for reinforcement of collective wisdom.

Lenity has almost always wisdom and justice on its side.

Alas, my lord, your wisdom is consumed in confidence.

Justice Scalia was a lion of the law. Agree or disagree with him, all of his colleagues on the bench shared his wisdom and his humor. And like them, I miss him.

Let's face it, life is trivial, and my guess is that dying imparts very little wisdom on those in process.

Please don't be overly sober with your precious wings, it's your addiction to freedom that makes me think that i too can defy gravity.

I beseech thee, O Lord, let me have understanding: For it was not my mind to be curious of the high things, but of such as pass by us daily.

A jewelled garden the envy of Aladdin's cave spilled across the courtyard.

His shout was a syllable so ancient and powerful that Saffiyah's mind instantly censored it.

Mixing old wine with new wine is stupidity, but mixing old wisdom with new wisdom is maturity.

You know what uranium is, right? This thing called nuclear weapons like lots of things are done with uranium including some bad things.

If you don't synthesize knowledge, scientific journals become spare-parts catalogues for machines that are never built.

I don't do metaphysics. Neither do I have the luxury to talk about my beliefs.

Natural Sciences are all about fascinating causality.

Self-pity is spiritual suicide. It is an indefensible self-mutilation of the soul.

Spiritual practices performed in the middle of our mundane days bring us into the presence of an astonishing God.

The time when freedom is no longer held in the highest regard is not during times of want or suffering, but during the era of civility, pleasure, and wealth.

The sky has a huge heart open for all clouds even on the gloomiest of days.

When we choose to operate on the frequency of compassion and kindness, we create, and reinforce our own realities, as filled with compassion and kindness.

We wait upon finite minds to validate infinite things— this is evidence of human stupidity.