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" It isn't right to judge strength as better than good wisdom. "

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" Some coaches pray for wisdom. I pray for 260-pound tackles. They'll give me plenty of wisdom. "

" Strength and wisdom are not opposing values. "

William J. Clinton

" Mainstream media tend to just mouth the conventional wisdom, to see everything through the filter of right and left. "

Arianna Huffington

" You know, many people have said that I'm on the edge and I'm maverick for some of the big operations that I've done. I'm not at all. I pray; I ask God to give me wisdom, 'Should I do it?', guidance in terms of how to do it, who to consult with. All those kind of things are incredibly important. "

" 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. "

" Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess, and yet all the honesty in the world ain't lawful tender for a loaf of bread. "

" Wisdom cannot come by railroad or automobile or aeroplane, or be hurried up by telegraph or telephone. "

" There is one God - supreme among gods and men - who is like mortals in neither body nor mind. "

" I think people get confused about who Merlin is. It's not his age that makes him: it's wisdom, and wisdom is not necessarily linked to age. Definitely not in the same way in the world of 'Once Upon a Time.' "

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

" All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man. "

Henry David Thoreau

" He was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the rich. "

" I reject most conventional wisdom. "

Conventional Wisdom

" The hours of folly are measured by the clock; but of wisdom, no clock can measure. "

" 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. "

Mikhail Gorbachev

" In my life, I was always floating around the edge of the dark side and saying what if take it a little bit too far, and who says you have to stop there, and what's behind the next door. Maybe you gain a wisdom from examining those things. But after a while, you get too far down in the quicksand. "

" Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life - in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color. "

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

" We live in a culture that doesn't acknowledge or validate human intuition and doesn't encourage us to rely on our intuitive wisdom. "

" When a thing is done, it's done. Don't look back. Look forward to your next objective. "

George C. Marshall

" The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living, which are to be desired when dying. "

" As you walk down the fairway of life you must smell the roses, for you only get to play one round. "

" Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that deceives them. "

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

" The wisdom of God is so great that He also knows exactly what I would think and do under every possible circumstance and situation, and he placed me in that state of life and situation best suited for my salvation. "

Mother Angelica

" I know more about what it's like to be elderly and infirm and kind of stupid, the way you get forgetful, but on the other hand I'm a littler, wiser, dare we say? The word 'wisdom' has kind of faded out of our vocabulary, but yeah, I'm a little wiser. "

" Wisdom is the knowledge of good and evil, not the strength to choose between the two. "

" Come, come, leave business to idlers, and wisdom to fools: they have need of 'em: wit be my faculty, and pleasure my occupation, and let father Time shake his glass. "

William Congreve

" 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. "

" Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of. "

Benjamin Franklin

" Wisdom and goodness are twin-born, one heart must hold both sisters, never seen apart. "

William Dean Howells

" Every silver lining has a cloud. "