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" Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration. "

Thomas A. Edison

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" I'm exploring the maturity, the wisdom that just comes from having gone around the sun 50 times. My experience is, 'Oh, I'm never really going to get it right. I'm never going to get it done. But that's not the point here.' The point is the journey. "

Melissa Etheridge

" While I have no empirical evidence to back this up, I bet that the number of homosexual people per thousand has not fluctuated all that much over the centuries. I do not believe the dented wisdom my father used to extol, that homosexuality was a sure sign of a civilization in decline. "

" Most people see what they expect to see, what they want to see, what they've been told to see, what conventional wisdom tells them to see - not what is right in front of them in its pristine condition. "

Vincent Bugliosi

" Authority without wisdom is like a heavy ax without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish. "

Anne Bradstreet

" When in doubt, don't. "

Benjamin Franklin

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

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

" Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom. "

Walter Benjamin

" What you are will show in what you do. "

Thomas A. Edison

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

William Dean Howells

" All of us, at certain moments of our lives, need to take advice and to receive help from other people. "

" Wisdom consists not so much in knowing what to do in the ultimate as knowing what to do next. "

" We learn from each other. We learn from others' mistakes, from their experience, their wisdom. It makes it easier for us to come to better decisions in our own lives. "

" They would need to be already wise, in order to love wisdom. "

Friedrich Schiller

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

" Kindness is wisdom. "

Philip James Bailey

" 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. "

" I know that inner wisdom is more precious than wealth. The more you spend it, the more you gain. "

" The body is a community made up of its innumerable cells or inhabitants. "

Thomas A. Edison

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

John D. Rockefeller

" I start where the last man left off. "

Thomas A. Edison

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

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

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

Wallace Stegner

" The value of an idea lies in the using of it. "

Thomas A. Edison

" The seat of knowledge is in the head; of wisdom, in the heart. We are sure to judge wrong, if we do not feel right. "

William Hazlitt

" We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us. "

" When a thing is done, it's done. Don't look back. Look forward to your next objective. "

George C. Marshall

" It is astonishing what an effort it seems to be for many people to put their brains definitely and systematically to work. "

Thomas A. Edison

" Memory is the mother of all wisdom. "

" If you have a vaccine or an antidote that people can benefit from, you're not going to want to keep it to yourself. You're going to want to spread that wisdom or whatever to as many people as you can, so everybody can benefit from it. "