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" I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures. "

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" Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it. "

" You can observe a lot by watching. "

" 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. "

" It is not who is right, but what is right, that is of importance. "

" It isn't right to judge strength as better than good wisdom. "

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

" Wisdom denotes the pursuing of the best ends by the best means. "

Francis Hutcheson

" Wisdom is knowing when you can't be wise. "

" Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage. "

" 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. "

" People in their handlings of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure. "

" 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. "

" Once I turned 35, I got the bonus of some wisdom and began to accept life on its own terms. "

" I know more about what it's like to be elderly and infirm and kind of stupid, the way you get forgetful, but on the other hand I'm a littler, wiser, dare we say? The word 'wisdom' has kind of faded out of our vocabulary, but yeah, I'm a little wiser. "

" We learn from each other. We learn from others' mistakes, from their experience, their wisdom. It makes it easier for us to come to better decisions in our own lives. "

" 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. "

" It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters. "

" Wisdom is not acquired save as the result of investigation. "

" From wonder into wonder existence opens. "

" Surely, God on high has not refused to give us enough wisdom to find ways to bring us an improvement in relations between the two great nations on earth. "

Mikhail Gorbachev

" The more one pleases everybody, the less one pleases profoundly. "

" Purity engenders Wisdom, Passion avarice, and Ignorance folly, infatuation and darkness. "

" We are wiser than we know. "

Ralph Waldo Emerson

" I want to dip my foot in some acting. And most definitely want to mentor upcoming artists and give them the wisdom that was given to me. "

" Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom. "

Charles Spurgeon

" Instead of looking at life as a narrowing funnel, we can see it ever widening to choose the things we want to do, to take the wisdom we've learned and create something. "

" I do not concern myself with gods and spirits either good or evil nor do I serve any. "

" The wicked leader is he who the people despise. The good leader is he who the people revere. The great leader is he who the people say, 'We did it ourselves.' "

" At sixty, I know little more about wisdom than I did at thirty, but I know a great deal more about folly. "