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" 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. "

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" Wit and playfulness represent a desperately serious transcendence of evil. Humor is both a form of wisdom and a means of survival. "

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" A man begins cutting his wisdom teeth the first time he bites off more than he can chew. "

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

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

" A proverb is the wisdom of many and the wit of one. "

" The more you meditate on the laws of Moses, the more striking and brighter does their wisdom appear. "

" Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life. "

" We are wiser than we know. "

" It seems to me that, in every culture, I come across a chapter headed 'Wisdom.' And then I know exactly what is going to follow: 'Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.' "

" India is known for its sobriety and wisdom, balanced and sensible thinking. We need strong institutions and we need good governance in the country. "

" If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart. "

" We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already. "

" What we call wisdom is the result of all the wisdom of past ages. Our best institutions are like young trees growing upon the roots of the old trunks that have crumbled away. "

" If men possessed wisdom, which stands in the same relation to the form of man as the sight to the eye, they would not cause any injury to themselves or to others; for the knowledge of truth removes hatred and quarrels, and prevents mutual injuries. "

" Please all, and you will please none. "

" If an idea is indeed sensible, it will eventually become just part of the accepted wisdom. "

" 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. "

" Rightly defined philosophy is simply the love of wisdom. "

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Love

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Simply

" 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. "

" Everyone has always underestimated a company headquartered in Salt Lake City, Utah. The New York boys thought they could take me on, that nobody out here has any knowledge or wisdom. "

Jon Huntsman, Sr.

Wisdom

New York

" 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. "

" Never reach out your hand unless you're willing to extend an arm. "

" 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. "

Missy Elliott

Foot

Mentor

" In world mythology, there are countless examples of tragic characters whose greatest strength is also the source of their undoing. But the ancient Greeks and Romans also held the view that acceptance is the beginning of wisdom. "

" From the errors of others, a wise man corrects his own. "

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

Saint Teresa of Avila

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" Lion sounds that have not grown from the mouse may exude naked power... but cannot convey any wisdom or understanding... The initial steps on the path to courageous speech then are the first tentative steps into the parts of us that cannot speak. "

" Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late. "

" The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages is preserved into perpetuity by a nation's proverbs, fables, folk sayings and quotations. "

" Wise men make more opportunities than they find. "