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" Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young. "

Rabindranath Tagore

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" Patience is the companion of wisdom. "

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" Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence and deem them like the Ark of the Covenant, too sacred to be touched. They ascribe to men of the preceding age a wisdom more than human and suppose what they did to be beyond amendment. "

" Whatever position I occupied, it was the result of colleagues - of my comrades in the movement - who had decided in their wisdom to use me for the purpose of focusing the attention of the country and the international community on me. "

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

" You should never ask a horse or an actor to do something they cannot do. Wisdom will teach you to find out what they can do and then make it easy for them. "

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" A monarchy conducted with infinite wisdom and infinite benevolence is the most perfect of all possible governments. "

" First appearance deceives many. "

" Protection, as we use the word in Buddhism, is actually wisdom, it's insight. Protection is seeing and knowing deeply that all things in our experience arise due to causes, due to conditions coming together in a certain way. "

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" A day of worry is more exhausting than a week of work. "

" I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge. "

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" Some folks are wise and some are otherwise. "

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" I think we do need to try to not just rely on the central bank to, in its wisdom, adjust interest rates, but allow for people to avoid being exposed to inflation risk. "

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" To keep your secret is wisdom; to expect others to keep it is folly. "

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" How do you rate works of genius? Partly by personal inclination, partly by accepted wisdom, partly by popularity. "

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" Sometimes I am happy and sometimes not. I am, after all, a human being, you know. And I am glad that we are sometimes happy and sometimes not. You get your wisdom working by having different emotions. "

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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. "

" Wise kings generally have wise counselors; and he must be a wise man himself who is capable of distinguishing one. "

" The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds. "

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