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" I have no agenda except to be funny. Neither I or the writers profess to offer any worldly wisdom. "

Julia Louis-Dreyfus

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Franklin D. Roosevelt

" Knowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom. "

" Never accept ultimatums, conventional wisdom, or absolutes. "

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

" Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence and deem them like the Ark of the Covenant, too sacred to be touched. They ascribe to men of the preceding age a wisdom more than human and suppose what they did to be beyond amendment. "

" 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. "

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

Bertrand Russell

" Many of us spend half of our time wishing for things we could have if we didn't spend half our time wishing. "

Alexander Woollcott

" It is the neglect of timely repair that makes rebuilding necessary. "

Richard Whately

" Elaine is just in pain. I think Elaine has become very, very sad woman. She is someone who is in deep need of many hours of analysis and I like to think that I'm not that type of person. "

Julia Louis-Dreyfus

" In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head. "

Arthur Schopenhauer

" What I've been able to do with my character, Madea, and the other characters, with the jokes, is use it as an anesthetic to get to the heart and soul of real issues. And what I've found on stage over the years is that, while making people laugh, I can drop in pearls of wisdom. "

" What is the price of experience? Do men buy it for a song? Or wisdom for a dance in the street? No, it is bought with the price of all the man hath, his house, his wife, his children. "

" If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there. "

" To comprehend the Wisdom of this Injunction the better, and explain the Duty before us, it should be considered, that Government is the only Means by which human Happiness can be attained. "

" The truest greatness lies in being kind, the truest wisdom in a happy mind. "

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

" Rarely promise, but, if lawful, constantly perform. "

" And when the world is created, it is created in such a way that those eternal objects of God's loving wisdom become actualities - interacting with one another, relating to God in the finite realm. "

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

" Knowing that you are going to die is, I suspect, the beginning of wisdom. "

Terry Pratchett

" Everyone talks about how, in your 30s, all of these growing pains transition into wisdom and you feel more self-assured and confident, but I think I had a bit of a jump-start on that at 27. "

Solange Knowles

" Self-suggestion makes you master of yourself. "

W. Clement Stone

" Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more. "

" The biggest handicap in research is an ability to think outside the box. The handicap is being encumbered by all the conventional wisdom in a given field. "

" Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom. "

Phyllis Theroux

" Whenever you argue with another wiser than yourself in order that others may admire your wisdom, they will discover your ignorance. "