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

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" Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children. "

" It is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor. "

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" Because you are women, people will force their thinking on you, their boundaries on you. They will tell you how to dress, how to behave, who you can meet and where you can go. Don't live in the shadows of people's judgement. Make your own choices in the light of your own wisdom. "

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" It is astonishing what force, purity, and wisdom it requires for a human being to keep clear of falsehoods. "

Margaret Fuller

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

" War involves in its progress such a train of unforeseen circumstances that no human wisdom can calculate the end; it has but one thing certain, and that is to increase taxes. "

" 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

" In life, all good things come hard, but wisdom is the hardest to come by. "

" The sweetest of all sounds is praise. "

" Let deeds match words. "

" The final wisdom of life requires not the annulment of incongruity but the achievement of serenity within and above it. "

Reinhold Niebuhr

" To know one's self is wisdom, but not to know one's neighbors is genius. "

" Words of wisdom are spoken by children at least as often as scientists. "

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

" Any successful nominee should possess both the temperament to interpret the law and the wisdom to do so fairly. The next Supreme Court Justice should have a record of protecting individual rights and a strong willingness to put aside any political agenda. "

Bennie Thompson

" 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. "

" Along with success comes a reputation for wisdom. "

" No party has a monopoly on wisdom. No democracy works without compromise. But when Governor Romney and his allies in Congress tell us we can somehow lower our deficit by spending trillions more on new tax breaks for the wealthy - well, you do the math. I refuse to go along with that. And as long as I'm President, I never will. "

" Let us act on what we have, since we have not what we wish. "

John Henry Newman

" It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see. "

Henry David Thoreau

" A short saying often contains much wisdom. "

" Wisdom and goodness are twin-born, one heart must hold both sisters, never seen apart. "

William Dean Howells

" We developed a technology called artificial swarm intelligence, which is all about tapping the inherent knowledge, wisdom, intuition of groups. "

Louis B. Rosenberg

" We're living in a society where you need to be accountable for your actions, for your behavior - for yourself. To sit back and be reactive would be to allow your children to make big mistakes without the benefit of your wisdom being bestowed on them. It's not what my parents taught me. "

" 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

" You've got to go out on a limb sometimes because that's where the fruit is. "

" They are few in the midst of an overwhelming mass of brute force, and their submission is wisdom; but for a nation like England to submit to be robbed by any invader who chooses to visit her shores seemed to me to be nonsense. "

" Once you label me you negate me. "

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