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

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" I find that to be a fool as to worldly wisdom, and to commit my cause to God, not fearing to offend men, who take offence at the simplicity of truth, is the only way to remain unmoved at the sentiments of others. "

" The truth is not for all men, but only for those who seek it. "

" Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself; the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache. "

Gilbert K. Chesterton

" Much wisdom often goes with fewest words. "

" What I've been able to do with my character, Madea, and the other characters, with the jokes, is use it as an anesthetic to get to the heart and soul of real issues. And what I've found on stage over the years is that, while making people laugh, I can drop in pearls of wisdom. "

" We all have within us a deep wisdom, but sometimes we don't know we have it. "

" Every indication of wisdom, taken from the effect, is equally an indication of power to execute what wisdom planned. "

" 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. "

" Who is wise in love, love most, say least. "

Alfred Lord Tennyson

" I'm at the transition place myself, still playing high school girls but moving to a stage when I'm playing older roles and going to the places of stillness and wisdom and knowledge and weight. It's exciting and scary. "

Tatiana Maslany

" We can't really digest food unless there's hunger. So we can't really assimilate spiritual wisdom unless we feel the need for it. "

Radhanath Swami

" I covered my face because they had taken my wisdom teeth out. "

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

" If you want to go east, don't go west. "

" The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one. "

Honore de Balzac

" It takes a great man to give sound advice tactfully, but a greater to accept it graciously. "

Logan Pearsall Smith

" All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man. "

Henry David Thoreau

" Habit is the nursery of errors. "

" Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late. "

Felix Frankfurter

" A proverb is the wisdom of many and the wit of one. "

Lord John Russell

" I think I got a lot of life skills; I got a lot of wisdom; I've seen a lot of bad things happen to a lot of good people. "

" 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

" Wisdom is the knowledge of good and evil, not the strength to choose between the two. "

" If you have the insight of non-self, if you have the insight of impermanence, you should make that insight into a concentration that you keep alive throughout the day. Then what you say, what you think, and what you do will then be in the light of that wisdom and you will avoid making mistakes and creating suffering. "

Thich Nhat Hanh

" The beginning of wisdom is to desire it. "

Solomon Ibn Gabirol

" You know, many people have said that I'm on the edge and I'm maverick for some of the big operations that I've done. I'm not at all. I pray; I ask God to give me wisdom, 'Should I do it?', guidance in terms of how to do it, who to consult with. All those kind of things are incredibly important. "

" Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun. "

Franz Grillparzer

" All human wisdom works and has worries and grief as reward. "

Johann Georg Hamann

" I'll come to you with gifts of knowledge, wisdom and truth. "

" Strong characters are brought out by change of situation, and gentle ones by permanence. "