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" 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. "

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" Above all, you must fight conceit, envy, and every kind of ill-feeling in your heart. "

" While people are quick to praise the wisdom of the crowd, being an old-school journalist, I look at the wisdom of the crowd and know it can quickly turn into a mob mentality. "

Jason Calacanis

" Set your course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship. "

Omar N. Bradley

" There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still. "

Franklin D. Roosevelt

" It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone. "

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

" Both in thought and in feeling, even though time be real, to realise the unimportance of time is the gate of wisdom. "

Bertrand Russell

" Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents. "

" All the great evils which men cause to each other because of certain intentions, desires, opinions, or religious principles, are likewise due to non-existence, because they originate in ignorance, which is absence of wisdom. "

" A prudent question is one-half of wisdom. "

" He whose wisdom cannot help him, gets no good from being wise. "

" Money will buy a pretty good dog, but it won't buy the wag of his tail. "

" Conventional wisdom tells us we'll only be happier after a divorce if the marriage itself was a war zone. "

" We humans have lost the wisdom of genuinely resting and relaxing. We worry too much. We don't allow our bodies to heal, and we don't allow our minds and hearts to heal. "

" We can be knowledgable with other men's knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom. "

Michel de Montaigne

" In complete darkness, it is only knowledge and wisdom that separates us. "

" I reject most conventional wisdom. "

Conventional Wisdom

" Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance. "

" No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool. Writers, alas, have to be fools in public, while the rest of the human race can cover its tracks. "

" Life is short, but it's long enough to ruin any man who wants to be ruined. "

" A short saying often contains much wisdom. "

" I'd love to spend more time on the Isle of Man. I love the anonymity of putting on a boiler suit and going down to buy parts for the compressor. And Norman Wisdom's a neighbour; I salute him occasionally. "

John Rhys-Davies

" Science investigates; religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power; religion gives man wisdom which is control. "

Martin Luther King, Jr.

" Information is not knowledge, and knowledge is not wisdom. Reading - even browsing - an old book can yield sustenance denied by a database search. Patience is a virtue, gluttony a sin. "

" As a society, we come up lacking in many of the marks of compassion and wisdom by which we measure ourselves as civilized. "

" The best time for you to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust. "

" Quick decisions are unsafe decisions. "

" Appearances are often deceiving. "

" The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom. "

" To be satisfied with a little, is the greatest wisdom; and he that increaseth his riches, increaseth his cares; but a contented mind is a hidden treasure, and trouble findeth it not. "

" In the frank expression of conflicting opinions lies the greatest promise of wisdom in governmental action. "

Louis D. Brandeis