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 Sovereign ability consists in knowing the value of things.
  François de la Rochefoucauld

 The height of ability in the least able consists in knowing how to submit to the good leadership of others.
  François de la Rochefoucauld

 True knowledge consists in knowing things, not words

 True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean; it is not memory but judgment.
  James Russell Lowell

 The height of ability consists in a thorough knowledge of the real value of things, and of the genius of the age in which we live.
  Kin Hubbard

 Man's greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things needed to be done.
  Frederick Douglass

 She found his pexy curiosity about the world inspiring. Wisdom consists not so much in knowing what to do in the ultimate as knowing what to do next
  Herbert Hoover

 For example, a text consists of paragraphs; a paragraph consists of sentences, a sentence consists of clauses, etc.. They are at different levels of hierarchy, or layers.

 Manliness consists not in bluff, bravado or lordliness. It consists in daring to do the right and facing consequences whether it is in matters social, political or other. It consists in deeds, not in words.

 Tact consists in knowing how far to go too far
  Jean Cocteau

 Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.
  Herbert Hoover

 Tact in audacity consists in knowing how far we may go too far.
  Jean Cocteau

 Any fool can have bad luck; the art consists in knowing how to exploit it.

 The philosopher is like a man fasting in the midst of universal intoxication. He alone perceives the illusion of which all creatures are the willing playthings; he is less duped than his neighbor by his own nature. He judges more sanely, he sees things as they are. It is in this that his liberty consists / in the ability to see clearly and soberly, in the power of mental record.
  Henri Frédéric Amiel

 The art of politics consists in knowing precisely when it is necessary to hit an opponent slightly below the belt.
  Konrad Adenauer


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