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" Experience is knowledge; but knowledge, when it is sought only as a material resource, is not always a blessing. Experience is wisdom; but wisdom, with those who lack vision, is not always power. Experience is tolerance; but tolerance, when it is induced by apathy, is not in the least a virtue. "

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" The gods do not need sacrifices, so what might one do to please them? Acquire wisdom, it seems to me, and do all the good in one's power to those humans who deserve it. "

Apollonius of Tyana

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Deserve

Wisdom

" We need to hear stories from older women. There's a wealth of wisdom and real resilience there, but they're silenced. "

" Many sophisticated, intelligent people lack wisdom and common sense. "

" I prefer the folly of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom. "

" Habit is the nursery of errors. "

" Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next. "

Herbert Hoover

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Times

" Holy wisdom confounds Satan and all his wickednesses. "

" Some folks are wise and some are otherwise. "

" Never accept ultimatums, conventional wisdom, or absolutes. "

Christopher Reeve

Wisdom

Absolutes

" He dares to be a fool, and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom. "

James Huneker

Fool

Direction

" Always keep an open mind and a compassionate heart. "

" First appearance deceives many. "

" Now all the knowledge and wisdom that is in creatures, whether angels or men, is nothing else but a participation of that one eternal, immutable and increased wisdom of God. "

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

" The hours of folly are measured by the clock; but of wisdom, no clock can measure. "

" Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world. "

Archimedes

Long

Enough

" If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise. "

" You need to have extraordinary wisdom to be the forerunner. "

" The wisdom of God is so great that He also knows exactly what I would think and do under every possible circumstance and situation, and he placed me in that state of life and situation best suited for my salvation. "

" I want to dip my foot in some acting. And most definitely want to mentor upcoming artists and give them the wisdom that was given to me. "

Missy Elliott

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Mentor

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

" For myself, I think that those who cultivate wisdom and believe themselves able to instruct their fellow-citizens as to their interests are least likely to become partisans of violence. They are too well aware that to violence attach enmities and dangers, whereas results as good may be obtained by persuasion safely and amicably. "

" Lord, give us the wisdom to utter words that are gentle and tender, for tomorrow we may have to eat them. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" It is impossible to love and to be wise. "

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

" People usually compare the computer to the head of the human being. I would say that hardware is the bone of the head, the skull. The semiconductor is the brain within the head. The software is the wisdom. And data is the knowledge. "

" To think ill of mankind and not wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue. "

" Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired. "