Quote by Henning Mankell
Normally street children are shown in terms of the tragedy of thei

Normally street children are shown in terms of the tragedy of their lives – which is true – but theres also another dimension: their wisdom, dignity and enormous capacity for survival. – Henning Mankell

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Many people make the mistake of confusing information with knowledge. They are not the same thing. Knowledge involves the interpretation of information. Knowledge involves listening. – Henning Mankell

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Knowledge
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What differentiates us from animals is the fact that we can listen to other peoples dreams, fears, joys, sorrows, desires and defeats – and they in turn can listen to ours. – Henning Mankell

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Wisdom is knowing when you cant be wise. – Paul Engle

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Pessimism is only the name that men of weak nerves give to wisdom. – Bernard De Voto

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Conventional wisdom holds that setting a timetable for getting American troops out of Iraq would be a mistake. – Nick Clooney

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The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions. – Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

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Our dream dashes itself against the great mystery like a wasp against a window pane. Less merciful than man, God never opens the window. – Jules Renard, Journal, 1906

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Anybody who has been seriously engaged in scientific work of any kind realizes that over the entrance to the gates of the temple of science are written the words: Ye must have faith. – Max Planck

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