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" I am thinking of taking a fifth wife. Why not? Solomon had a thousand wives and he is a synonym for wisdom. "

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" 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. "

Sharon Salzberg

" Rediscovering the wisdom of love and compassion may help us survive at a time when an increasingly balkanized world so badly needs it. "

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

Katharine Graham

" Some folks are wise and some are otherwise. "

Tobias Smollett

" There is no greater privilege in living than bringing a tiny new human being into the world and then trying to raise him or her properly during the next eighteen years. Doing that job right requires all the intelligence, wisdom, and determination you will be able to muster from day to day. "

" Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else. "

" It seems to me that, in every culture, I come across a chapter headed 'Wisdom.' And then I know exactly what is going to follow: 'Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.' "

Ludwig Wittgenstein

" Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency. "

" My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate. "

Thornton Wilder

" It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err. "

" Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion? "

Friedrich Nietzsche

" Self-suggestion makes you master of yourself. "

W. Clement Stone

" People usually compare the computer to the head of the human being. I would say that hardware is the bone of the head, the skull. The semiconductor is the brain within the head. The software is the wisdom. And data is the knowledge. "

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

Michel de Montaigne

" Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn't be done. "

" Everything in the world may be endured except continual prosperity. "

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

" Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures. "

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

" The wheel that squeaks the loudest is the one that gets the grease. "

" Thinking is not enough. There is no final enough of wisdom, experience - any... thing. "

William S. Burroughs

" Wisdom sails with wind and time. "

" 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. "

" I had more energy at 50. On the other hand, at 75, I've probably got a little more wisdom and good judgment than I had at 50 because I've got more experience. But I haven't really changed. I'm still driven by the same philosophy. "

" Lion sounds that have not grown from the mouse may exude naked power... but cannot convey any wisdom or understanding... The initial steps on the path to courageous speech then are the first tentative steps into the parts of us that cannot speak. "

" First appearance deceives many. "

" To know one's self is wisdom, but not to know one's neighbors is genius. "

" Consider this point. It is a main point of true wisdom. Whenever there is an execution of purpose, there must be an agent. "

Adoniram Judson

" It is while you are patiently toiling at the little tasks of life that the meaning and shape of the great whole of life dawn on you. "

Phillips Brooks

" Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out. "

" Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom. "

Theodore Isaac Rubin