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" It is not who is right, but what is right, that is of importance. "

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" You want people walking away from the conversation with some kernel of wisdom or some kind of impact. "

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" Spectacular achievement is always preceded by unspectacular preparation. "

Robert H. Schuller

" Deliberately seek opportunities for kindness, sympathy, and patience. "

Evelyn Underhill

" In an era in which war and terrorism - at home and abroad - are often based on racial, religious and ethnic differences, rediscovering the wisdom of love and compassion may help us increase our survival at a time when an increasingly divided country and world so badly need it. "

" Discipline is wisdom and vice versa. "

" The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind. "

" It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things. "

Henry David Thoreau

" Knowledge is going to make you stronger. Knowledge is going to let you control your life. Knowledge is going to give you the wisdom to teach their children. Knowledge is the thing that makes you smile in the face of disaster. "

" Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it. "

" For myself, I think that those who cultivate wisdom and believe themselves able to instruct their fellow-citizens as to their interests are least likely to become partisans of violence. They are too well aware that to violence attach enmities and dangers, whereas results as good may be obtained by persuasion safely and amicably. "

" The world is neither wise nor just, but it makes up for all its folly and injustice by being damnably sentimental. "

" It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone. "

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

" Contemplation and wisdom are highest achievements and man is not totally at home with them. "

" Who in their infinite wisdom decreed that Little League uniforms be white? Certainly not a mother. "

" Once I turned 35, I got the bonus of some wisdom and began to accept life on its own terms. "

" Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack. We give it orders which make no sense. "

" To think ill of mankind and not wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue. "

William Hazlitt

" A promise made is a debt unpaid. "

Robert W. Service

" Repeat anything often enough and it will start to become you. "

" We are all responsible to Jesus first, and then, under him, to various other persons and offices. Discerning the path of love and obedience when two or more of these submissive relationships collide is a call to humble, Bible-saturated, spiritual wisdom. "

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

Felix Frankfurter

" To advise is not to compel. "

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

Ezra Taft Benson

" Unhappy is that Grandeur which makes us too great to be good; and that Wit which sets us at a distance from true Wisdom. "

" The opinion which other people have of you is their problem, not yours. "

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

" It is much more difficult to measure nonperformance than performance. "

Harold S. Geneen

" I am a poor student sitting at the feet of giants, yearning for their wisdom and begging for lessons that might one day make me a complete artist, so that if all goes well, I may one day sit beside them. "

" Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences. "

" In order to have wisdom we must have ignorance. "

Theodore Dreiser

" The truest wisdom is a resolute determination. "

Napoleon Bonaparte