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In doubt a man of worth will trust to his own wisdom.

The Liberal Party of Canada has no monopoly on public service, we have no monopoly on virtue, and we have no monopoly on wisdom.

It is better to speak wisdom foolishly like the saints than to speak folly wisely like the deans.

I have ever thought so superstitiously of wit, that I fear I have committed idolatry against wisdom.

The only wisdom we can hope to acquire Is the wisdom of humility: humility is endless. The houses are all gone under the sea. The dancers are all gone under the hill.

What if God were not exactly truth, and if this could be proved? And if he were instead the vanity, the desire for power, the ambitions, the fear, and the enraptured and terrified folly of mankind?

We ought to be very cautious and circumspect in the prosecution of magic and heresy. The attempt to put down these two crimes may be extremely perilous to liberty.

A number of our scientists boast intelligence but lack wisdom. I find those to be the predictable ones.

I don't think of compassion as sympathy but rather as empathy. An understanding of how people are feeling, which often translates into action.

Collective property and individual property, these two banners will be the standards under which, from now on, the great battles of the future will be fought.

Nothing is so contemptible as that affectation of wisdom, which some display, by universal incredulity.

Never could I advocate nonviolence in this country and not advocate nonviolence for the whole world.

"Lurking" is one metaphor that the Omniscience has allowed us to borrow.

The orthodox Hindu [the Mimâmsaka] does not believe in gods, the unorthodox believe in them.

Well, then, the human soul is eternal and immortal, perfect and infinite, and death means only a change of centre from one body to another

Trent I'm making Gretzky's head bleed for super-fan 99 over here

Volumes of history written in the ancient alphabet of G and C, A and T.

The cynic is goodhearted beneath his facade, whereas the sentimentalist is flint-hearted beneath his.

If idleness do not produce vice or malevolence, it commonly produces melancholy.

That knuckle-end of England—that land of Calvin, oatcakes, and sulphur.

Heat, ma'am! it was so dreadful here, that I found there was nothing left for it but to take off my flesh and sit in my bones.

Not body enough to cover his mind decently with; his intellect is improperly exposed.

I am a sensitive writer, actor and director. Talking business disgusts me. If you want to talk business, call my disgusting personal manager.

I made some truly awful movies. 'Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot' was the worst. If you ever want someone to confess to murder just make him or her sit through that film. They will confess to anything after 15 minutes.