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" Every nation whose affairs betray a want of wisdom and stability may calculate on every loss which can be sustained from the more systematic policy of its wiser neighbors. "

James Madison

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Neighbors

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" As a society, we come up lacking in many of the marks of compassion and wisdom by which we measure ourselves as civilized. "

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" Preconceived notions are the locks on the door to wisdom. "

" If you want to be found stand where the seeker seeks. "

" Be happy. It's one way of being wise. "

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Happy

Wise

Be Happy

" A great memory is never made synonymous with wisdom, any more than a dictionary would be called a treatise. "

" O, what a tangled web we weave when first we practise to deceive! "

" Never cut what you can untie. "

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" The higher we are placed, the more humbly we should walk. "

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" A man begins cutting his wisdom teeth the first time he bites off more than he can chew. "

" It's very hard to know what wisdom is. "

" Perhaps too much of everything is as bad as too little. "

" My own life is wonderful, but if I had to live the life of someone else, I'd gladly choose that of Julia Child or Dr. Seuss: two outrageously original people, each of whom fashioned an idiosyncratic wisdom, passion for life, and sense of humor into an art form that anyone and everyone could savor. "

" Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom. "

" What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature? "

" 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 well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people. "

" Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two. A constant coming and going: wisdom lies in the momentary. "

" There is no knowledge, no light, no wisdom that you are in possession of, but what you have received it from some source. "

" Wisdom is a sacred communion. "

" The most excellent and divine counsel, the best and most profitable advertisement of all others, but the least practiced, is to study and learn how to know ourselves. This is the foundation of wisdom and the highway to whatever is good. "

" You want people walking away from the conversation with some kernel of wisdom or some kind of impact. "

" When you betray somebody else, you also betray yourself. "

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You

Wisdom

" What spectacle can be more edifying or more seasonable, than that of Liberty and Learning, each leaning on the other for their mutual and surest support? "

James Madison

Liberty

Learning