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" He was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the rich. "

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" Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom. "

Ralph Waldo Emerson

" The superior man blames himself. The inferior man blames others. "

" What is man's ultimate direction in life? It is to look for love, truth, virtue, and beauty. "

Shinichi Suzuki

" He who is taught to live upon little owes more to his father's wisdom than he who has a great deal left him does to his father's care. "

" 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. "

" Leave no stone unturned. "

" The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work. "

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

" 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. "

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

" A mistake is simply another way of doing things. "

Katharine Graham

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

Isaac Bashevis Singer

" They are few in the midst of an overwhelming mass of brute force, and their submission is wisdom; but for a nation like England to submit to be robbed by any invader who chooses to visit her shores seemed to me to be nonsense. "

" I think people get confused about who Merlin is. It's not his age that makes him: it's wisdom, and wisdom is not necessarily linked to age. Definitely not in the same way in the world of 'Once Upon a Time.' "

" Never reach out your hand unless you're willing to extend an arm. "

" Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable. "

Sydney J. Harris

" In my definition of consciousness, consciousness is the same thing as life. What wisdom traditions also call spirit. "

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

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

Henry David Thoreau

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth. "

" Much wisdom often goes with fewest words. "

" The Divine wisdom has given us prayer, not as a means whereby to obtain the good things of earth, but as a means whereby we learn to do without them; not as a means whereby we escape evil, but as a means whereby we become strong to meet it. "

Frederick William Robertson

" Manners are especially the need of the plain. The pretty can get away with anything. "

" If we have built on the fragile cornerstones of human wisdom, pride, and conditional love, things may look good for a while, but a weak foundation causes collapse when storms hit. "

Charles Stanley

" All wisdom does not reside in Delhi. "