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" I believe that when an elder dies, a library is burned: vast sums of wisdom and knowledge are lost. Throughout the world libraries are ablaze with scant attention. "

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" Wisdom may best arise from a humbling reality. "

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

" A good memory is surely a compost heap that converts experience to wisdom, creativity, or dottiness; not that these things are of much earthly value, but at least they may keep you amused when the world is keeping you locked away or shutting you out. "

" Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit. "

" Wisdom and goodness are twin-born, one heart must hold both sisters, never seen apart. "

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

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East

" Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in the way in which the man of practical wisdom would determine it. "

" If fortune favors you do not be elated; if she frowns do not despond. "

" In life, all good things come hard, but wisdom is the hardest to come by. "

" 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. "

" Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself. "

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Wisdom

Advice

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" Education makes us more stupid than the brutes. A thousand voices call to us on every hand, but our ears are stopped with wisdom. "

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Stupid

" Not a single illegal immigrant should or need enter the United States, not one. Contrary to the common wisdom, the borders are easy to seal, and controlling entry is hardly totalitarian. "

" The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom. "

" It doesn't matter how much wisdom you have. If you don't have position, you have nothing. That's the tragedy of India. "

" Enraging liberals is simply one of the more enjoyable side effects of my wisdom. "

" What makes Superman a hero is not that he has power, but that he has the wisdom and the maturity to use the power wisely. From an acting point of view, that's how I approached the part. "

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Hero

" I'm not wise, but the beginning of wisdom is there; it's like relaxing into - and an acceptance of - things. "

" 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. "

" Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of. "

" Words of wisdom are spoken by children at least as often as scientists. "

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

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

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

" Wisdom is nothing but a preparation of the soul, a capacity, a secret art of thinking, feeling and breathing thoughts of unity at every moment of life. "

" Global security can be formed or threatened by heads of state whose wisdom, folly and obsessions shape global events. But often it is the security practitioners, those rarely in the headlines but whose craft and energy quietly break new ground, who keep us safe or put us in peril. "

" The enemy of the conventional wisdom is not ideas but the march of events. "

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March

Enemy

Wisdom

" You need to have extraordinary wisdom to be the forerunner. "

" To light one candle to God and another to the Devil is the principle of wisdom. "