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" Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out. "

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" We humans have lost the wisdom of genuinely resting and relaxing. We worry too much. We don't allow our bodies to heal, and we don't allow our minds and hearts to heal. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Anything that consoles is fake. "

" You can practice to attain knowledge, but you can't practice to attain wisdom. "

" It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err. "

" I consider wisdom supernatural because it isn't taught by men - it's a gift from God. "

" An owl is traditionally a symbol of wisdom, so we are neither doves nor hawks but owls, and we are vigilant when others are resting. "

" We do not sit as a superlegislature to weigh the wisdom of legislation. "

William O. Douglas

" I learned some valuable lessons about the legislative process, the importance of bipartisan cooperation and the wisdom of taking small steps to get a big job done. "

Hillary Clinton

" If you do not express your own original ideas, if you do not listen to your own being, you will have betrayed yourself. "

" All things must come to the soul from its roots, from where it is planted. "

Saint Teresa of Avila

" In complete darkness, it is only knowledge and wisdom that separates us. "

" Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus. "

Wallace Stegner

" Singleness of purpose is one of the chief essentials for success in life, no matter what may be one's aim. "

John D. Rockefeller

" He who devotes sixteen hours a day to hard study may become at sixty as wise as he thought himself at twenty. "

Mary Wilson Little

" Science is always discovering odd scraps of magical wisdom and making a tremendous fuss about its cleverness. "

Aleister Crowley

" He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe. "

Marcus Aurelius

" Knowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom. "

" Knowing that you are going to die is, I suspect, the beginning of wisdom. "

Terry Pratchett

" Of prosperity mortals can never have enough. "

" What is the price of experience? Do men buy it for a song? Or wisdom for a dance in the street? No, it is bought with the price of all the man hath, his house, his wife, his children. "

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

" We never understand how little we need in this world until we know the loss of it. "

James M. Barrie

" I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures. "

" I don't see the wisdom in modern politicians that I once saw in men like Dean Acheson, David Bruce, or George Marshall. In my day, the northeastern establishment dominated foreign policy formulation, but the composition and distribution of our population is very different today. "

Henry Kissinger

" Wisdom is found only in truth. "

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

" Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents. "

" It's not the having, it's the getting. "

Elizabeth Taylor

" It's easier to resist at the beginning than at the end. "

Leonardo da Vinci