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" Appearances are often deceiving. "

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" Kindness is wisdom. "

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" A day of worry is more exhausting than a week of work. "

" I'll come to you with gifts of knowledge, wisdom and truth. "

" To light one candle to God and another to the Devil is the principle of wisdom. "

" Money can be taken away from you, by the IRS or by pistol. That's why I always measure riches in terms of wisdom. No one can ever take from you what you know. "

" I always want to be a messenger, a person that, you know, that's not afraid to pass on wisdom. "

" It is plain to me that our prelates, in granting indulgences, do commonly blaspheme the wisdom of God. "

" 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

" My mom calls me an older soul because, growing up, she taught me stuff real early. Now I spend most of my time chasing wisdom, chasing understanding. "

" Every nation whose affairs betray a want of wisdom and stability may calculate on every loss which can be sustained from the more systematic policy of its wiser neighbors. "

" Every truth has two sides; it is as well to look at both, before we commit ourselves to either. "

" The higher we are placed, the more humbly we should walk. "

Marcus Tullius Cicero

" In the end, the real wisdom of menopause may be in questioning how fun or even sane this chore wheel called modern life actually is. "

Sandra Tsing Loh

" Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone. "

" I have no agenda except to be funny. Neither I or the writers profess to offer any worldly wisdom. "

Julia Louis-Dreyfus

" I am not the first Buddha who came upon Earth, nor shall I be the last. In due time, another Buddha will arise in the world - a Holy One, a supremely enlightened One, endowed with wisdom in conduct, auspicious, knowing the universe, an incomparable leader of men, a master of angels and mortals. "

" Practical wisdom is only to be learned in the school of experience. Precepts and instruction are useful so far as they go, but, without the discipline of real life, they remain of the nature of theory only. "

" After a gig I always head back to the hotel, remembering granny's words of wisdom. I cancel the late-night pizza and watch the Jonathan Ross show instead. "

" After all my possessions had been burned, God gave me the wisdom to return to Jerusalem. "

Shmuel Yosef Agnon

" We gain the strength of the temptation we resist. "

Ralph Waldo Emerson

" Men often applaud an imitation and hiss the real thing. "

" The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds. "

John F. Kennedy

" It is impossible to love and to be wise. "

" Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more. "

" Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable. "

" If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart. "

" O, what a tangled web we weave when first we practise to deceive! "

" Man's wisdom is his best friend; folly his worst enemy. "

" No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted. "

" Wisdom denotes the pursuing of the best ends by the best means. "

Francis Hutcheson