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

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" Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable. "

Sydney J. Harris

" 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. "

" Commitment is an act, not a word. "

Jean-Paul Sartre

" Who knows for what we live, and struggle, and die? Wise men write many books, in words too hard to understand. But this, the purpose of our lives, the end of all our struggle, is beyond all human wisdom. "

" Much wisdom often goes with fewest words. "

" Be happy. It's one way of being wise. "

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

" The wisdom of age: don't stop walking. "

" All the great evils which men cause to each other because of certain intentions, desires, opinions, or religious principles, are likewise due to non-existence, because they originate in ignorance, which is absence of wisdom. "

" No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool. Writers, alas, have to be fools in public, while the rest of the human race can cover its tracks. "

" 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. "

" It is better to rust out than wear out. "

" It is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor. "

Michel de Montaigne

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

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

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

John Kenneth Galbraith

" By definition, the Singularity means that machines would be smarter than us, and, in their wisdom, they can innovate new technologies. The innovations would come so quickly, and increasingly quickly, that the innovation would make Moore's Law seem as antiquated as Hammurabi's Code. "

" Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself. "

" Lessons of wisdom have the most power over us when they capture the heart through the groundwork of a story, which engages the passions. "

Laurence Sterne

" When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield. "

" After a gig I always head back to the hotel, remembering granny's words of wisdom. I cancel the late-night pizza and watch the Jonathan Ross show instead. "

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

" In the end, the real wisdom of menopause may be in questioning how fun or even sane this chore wheel called modern life actually is. "

Sandra Tsing Loh

" Preconceived notions are the locks on the door to wisdom. "

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

Aleister Crowley

" It is while you are patiently toiling at the little tasks of life that the meaning and shape of the great whole of life dawn on you. "

Phillips Brooks

" Don't taunt the alligator until after you've crossed the creek. "

" No man pleases by silence; many I please by speaking briefly. "

" Children also have artistic ability, and there is wisdom in there having it! The more helpless they are, the more instructive are the examples they furnish us; and they must be preserved free of corruption from an early age. "

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

Julia Louis-Dreyfus