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" Authority without wisdom is like a heavy ax without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish. "

Anne Bradstreet

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" We can't really digest food unless there's hunger. So we can't really assimilate spiritual wisdom unless we feel the need for it. "

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" Focus on the mind and the soul. Read. Study. Enrol in a course of lectures. Pray. Become a member of a religious congregation. Study the Bible or other ancient works of wisdom. "

" Habit is the nursery of errors. "

" When in doubt, don't. "

Benjamin Franklin

" Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom. "

Walter Benjamin

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

Julia Louis-Dreyfus

" Above all, you must fight conceit, envy, and every kind of ill-feeling in your heart. "

" Leave no stone unturned. "

" Better than the strength of men and horses is our wisdom. "

" A good memory is surely a compost heap that converts experience to wisdom, creativity, or dottiness; not that these things are of much earthly value, but at least they may keep you amused when the world is keeping you locked away or shutting you out. "

" 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. "

" The Divine wisdom has given us prayer, not as a means whereby to obtain the good things of earth, but as a means whereby we learn to do without them; not as a means whereby we escape evil, but as a means whereby we become strong to meet it. "

Frederick William Robertson

" Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information? "

" 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. "

" A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool. "

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

" The more you meditate on the laws of Moses, the more striking and brighter does their wisdom appear. "

John Quincy Adams

" We are all responsible to Jesus first, and then, under him, to various other persons and offices. Discerning the path of love and obedience when two or more of these submissive relationships collide is a call to humble, Bible-saturated, spiritual wisdom. "

" If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner. "

Omar N. Bradley

" The wisdom acquired with the passage of time is a useless gift unless you share it. "

Esther Williams

" Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it. "

Rabindranath Tagore

" Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it. "

" Trouble shared is trouble halved. "

" I have sympathy for young people, for their growing pains, but I balk when these growing pains are pushed into the foreground, when you make these young people the only vehicles of life's wisdom. "

Wislawa Szymborska

" There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still. "

Franklin D. Roosevelt

" Wisdom is the quality that keeps you from getting into situations where you need it. "

" My company survives because I've learned to respect the ideas of people younger than me and recognize when my wisdom is obsolete. "

Robert Kiyosaki

" Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun. "

Franz Grillparzer

" Even youngish men can acquire wisdom as time goes by. "

" To keep your secret is wisdom; but to expect others to keep it is folly. "

" 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. "