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" As you walk down the fairway of life you must smell the roses, for you only get to play one round. "

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" I find that to be a fool as to worldly wisdom, and to commit my cause to God, not fearing to offend men, who take offence at the simplicity of truth, is the only way to remain unmoved at the sentiments of others. "

" Once I turned 35, I got the bonus of some wisdom and began to accept life on its own terms. "

" A charming woman... doesn't follow the crowd. She is herself. "

" Man is only great when he acts from passion. "

Benjamin Disraeli

" Wisdom is not acquired save as the result of investigation. "

" Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it. "

" I know that inner wisdom is more precious than wealth. The more you spend it, the more you gain. "

" It is good even for old men to learn wisdom. "

" Theology in general seems to me a substitution of human ingenuity for divine wisdom. "

Julia Ward Howe

" Contrary to conventional wisdom, the blue blazer's a bit of a loose cannon. A suit decided long ago what it wanted to be, and it doesn't want to hear your ideas, but a blue blazer only got around to half the job. So it leaves it up to you to find its bottoms. Gray slacks, blue jeans, patterns, white pants and different blue shades all work. "

" I couldn't wait for the sun to come up the next morning so that I could get out on the course again. "

" Big money is not a good thing for a little soul: it will only ensnare his feet, and he will fall to his ruin. Wealth is safe only for those who have a wealth of wisdom. "

" If you wish to reach the highest, begin at the lowest. "

Publilius Syrus

" The Founding Fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents. So they provided jails called schools, equipped with tortures called an education. "

" Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself; the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache. "

Gilbert K. Chesterton

" While I have no empirical evidence to back this up, I bet that the number of homosexual people per thousand has not fluctuated all that much over the centuries. I do not believe the dented wisdom my father used to extol, that homosexuality was a sure sign of a civilization in decline. "

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

Shmuel Yosef Agnon

" Women's strength, women's industry, women's wisdom are humankind's greatest untapped resource. The challenge then for U.N. Women is to show our diverse constituencies how this resource can be effectively tapped in ways that benefit us all. "

Michelle Bachelet

" Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself. "

" It seems to me that, in every culture, I come across a chapter headed 'Wisdom.' And then I know exactly what is going to follow: 'Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.' "

Ludwig Wittgenstein

" Our ascendancy of the past two centuries - first Europe and then the U.S. - has bred a western-centric mentality: the West is the fount of all wisdom. We think of ourselves as open-minded, but our sense of superiority has closed our minds. We never entertained the idea that China could surpass the U.S. "

" What's unique about the Mormon Church is that it encourages inquiry. I really do think my research and religion are all on the same page. I never could have come up with the notion of disruptive innovations, which went against a lot of conventional wisdom, if I hadn't been raised to always be asking questions. "

Clayton M. Christensen

" There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart. "

Charles Dickens

" The doors of wisdom are never shut. "

Benjamin Franklin

" They whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed. "

" The word philosophy sounds high-minded, but it simply means the love of wisdom. If you love something, you don't just read about it; you hug it, you mess with it, you play with it, you argue with it. "

" Quick decisions are unsafe decisions. "

" The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while. "

Albert Einstein

" Conventional wisdom on government's role in inequality often has it backwards. Tax reforms have resulted in a more progressive federal income tax; government transfer payments have become less progressive. "

" The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one. "

Honore de Balzac