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" I knew that I had it tough compared to children around me. But I felt like I needed it. I think I had the wisdom as a child to know that it would help me later on. "

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" If we have built on the fragile cornerstones of human wisdom, pride, and conditional love, things may look good for a while, but a weak foundation causes collapse when storms hit. "

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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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" 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. "

" One part of wisdom is knowing what you don't need anymore and letting it go. "

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" Age is a terrible avenger. The lessons of life give you so much to work with, but by the time you've got all this great wisdom, you don't get to be young anymore. "

" Since human wisdom cannot secure us from accidents, it is the greatest effort of reason to bear them well. "

" There is a universal, intelligent, life force that exists within everyone and everything. It resides within each one of us as a deep wisdom, an inner knowing. We can access this wonderful source of knowledge and wisdom through our intuition, an inner sense that tells us what feels right and true for us at any given moment. "

" A promise made is a debt unpaid. "

" Some folks are wise and some are otherwise. "

" Cleverness is not wisdom. "

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" Anybody who's away from what's normal is just kind of pushed aside as, 'Oh, he's crazy.' But in reality, this world is crazy. It's just chaos everywhere. It's really hard to be part of this world, because it's very possessed. And very egocentric. "

" It takes a great man to give sound advice tactfully, but a greater to accept it graciously. "

" Pride is tough. You go to high school, and its 'pride,' 'courage;' it's all these types of words that we use to motivate us. I don't think there's anywhere in the Scriptures through the saints' lives where pride was ever a positive characteristic of anybody. "

" To keep your secret is wisdom; to expect others to keep it is folly. "

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" Beware, so long as you live, of judging men by their outward appearance. "

" They whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed. "

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

" Women's strength, women's industry, women's wisdom are humankind's greatest untapped resource. The challenge then for U.N. Women is to show our diverse constituencies how this resource can be effectively tapped in ways that benefit us all. "

" Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours. "

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

" Hurricane Katrina overwhelmed levees and exploded the conventional wisdom about a shared American prosperity, exposing a group of people so poor they didn't have $50 for a bus ticket out of town. If we want to learn something from this disaster, the lesson ought to be: America's poor deserve better than this. "

" Science is always discovering odd scraps of magical wisdom and making a tremendous fuss about its cleverness. "

" After all my possessions had been burned, God gave me the wisdom to return to Jerusalem. "

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" Now it is time to turn to an older wisdom that, while respecting material comfort and security as a basic right of all, also recognises that many of the most valuable things in life cannot be measured. "

" With pride, there are many curses. With humility, there come many blessings. "

" Wisdom is knowledge which has become a part of one's being. "

" It isn't what you do, but how you do it. "

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

" A demon, in a way, is a test of your faith. Because if you're doing God's work, there's no reason for any demon to do anything to you. "

" The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil. "

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