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" I think I got a lot of life skills; I got a lot of wisdom; I've seen a lot of bad things happen to a lot of good people. "

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" 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. "

" Every nation whose affairs betray a want of wisdom and stability may calculate on every loss which can be sustained from the more systematic policy of its wiser neighbors. "

" And I pray thee, loving Jesus, that as Thou hast graciously given me to drink in with delight the words of Thy knowledge, so Thou wouldst mercifully grant me to attain one day to Thee, the fountain of all wisdom and to appear forever before Thy face. "

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

" The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are. "

" My mom calls me an older soul because, growing up, she taught me stuff real early. Now I spend most of my time chasing wisdom, chasing understanding. "

" Suffering is one of life's great teachers. "

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" 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. "

" Turn your wounds into wisdom. "

" I just think a hustler's ambition is that I never stop. I start off hustling and said I'll never stop hustling. An ambitious hustler is the one to hustle the hustlers. When I grew up, my heroes were hustlers. Now I'm their hero. "

" If the world were perfect, it wouldn't be. "

" For the Holy Ghost blesses us with optimism and wisdom at times of challenge that we simply cannot muster on our own. "

" Wisdom and knowledge are the most valuable things in the body. "

" Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun. "

Franz Grillparzer

" Wisdom comes by disillusionment. "

George Santayana

Disillusionment

" 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. "

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

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

" Leave no stone unturned. "

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

" All things must come to the soul from its roots, from where it is planted. "

Saint Teresa of Avila

" Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it. "

" 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. "

" Though sages may pour out their wisdom's treasure, there is no sterner moralist than pleasure. "

" I don't know that you're able to measure your aggregate wisdom as you go through life. I can't say that I ever feel that I'm sitting on top of a growing mound of wisdom. "

" 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. "