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" Cunning... is but the low mimic of wisdom. "

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" Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous. "

" Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself. "

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" A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom. "

" It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own. "

William Ralph Inge

" Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess, and yet all the honesty in the world ain't lawful tender for a loaf of bread. "

" To be satisfied with a little, is the greatest wisdom; and he that increaseth his riches, increaseth his cares; but a contented mind is a hidden treasure, and trouble findeth it not. "

" Wisdom may best arise from a humbling reality. "

" Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. "

Alfred Lord Tennyson

" Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency. "

" A mistake is simply another way of doing things. "

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" Given the unprecedented ignorance of the Bible in contemporary America, it is likely that more young Americans will only know the Noah of 'Noah.' We can only hope that the film offers even a fraction of the wisdom of the original. "

" The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom... in a clarification of life - not necessarily a great clarification, such as sects and cults are founded on, but in a momentary stay against confusion. "

" Our bodies are at once the receiving and transmitting stations for life itself. It is the highest wisdom to recognize this fact and train our bodies to render them sensitive and responsive to nature. art and religion. "

" What we call wisdom is the result of all the wisdom of past ages. Our best institutions are like young trees growing upon the roots of the old trunks that have crumbled away. "

Henry Ward Beecher

" To go to the world below, having a soul which is like a vessel full of injustice, is the last and worst of all the evils. "

" The left has come to regard common sense - the traditional wisdom and folkways of the community - as an obstacle to progress and enlightenment. "

Christopher Lasch

" If you have the guts to keep making mistakes, your wisdom and intelligence leap forward with huge momentum. "

" 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. "

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" Never find fault with the absent. "

" Some wisdom you must learn from one who's wise. "

" There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives. "

" Humanity's legacy of stories and storytelling is the most precious we have. All wisdom is in our stories and songs. A story is how we construct our experiences. At the very simplest, it can be: 'He/she was born, lived, died.' Probably that is the template of our stories - a beginning, middle, and end. This structure is in our minds. "

" Quick decisions are unsafe decisions. "

" Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that deceives them. "

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" Perhaps religious conscience upsets the designs of those who feel that the highest wisdom and authority comes from government. But from the beginning, this nation trusted in God, not man. Religious liberty is the first freedom in our Constitution. "

" I believe the continually advancing Information Revolution will lend us the wisdom and strength to address humanity's previously unsolvable problems and help us make a positive impact on all of society. "

" A cardinal rule in budgeting and saving is to pay yourself first. Once your paycheck hits your account, wisdom has it that you should move some amount to savings even before you pay the bills. "

" Science investigates; religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power; religion gives man wisdom which is control. "

Martin Luther King, Jr.