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" It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters. "

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" Leave no stone unturned. "

" The weak have remedies, the wise have joys; superior wisdom is superior bliss. "

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

William Hazlitt

" People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way. "

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

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

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

" Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself. "

Marcus Tullius Cicero

" If you were to offer a thirsty man all wisdom, you would not please him more than if you gave him a drink. "

" If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner. "

Omar N. Bradley

" Wisdom comes by disillusionment. "

George Santayana

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" I believe the continually advancing Information Revolution will lend us the wisdom and strength to address humanity's previously unsolvable problems and help us make a positive impact on all of society. "

" Wisdom is oftentimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar. "

William Wordsworth

" In complete darkness, it is only knowledge and wisdom that separates us. "

" Man is only great when he acts from passion. "

Benjamin Disraeli

" Knowledge is marvelous, but wisdom is even better. "

Kay Redfield Jamison

" The beginning of wisdom is to desire it. "

Solomon Ibn Gabirol

" How do you rate works of genius? Partly by personal inclination, partly by accepted wisdom, partly by popularity. "

Robert Gottlieb

" The truth is not for all men, but only for those who seek it. "

" Do not laugh much or often or unrestrainedly. "

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

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

" 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. "

" As a society, we come up lacking in many of the marks of compassion and wisdom by which we measure ourselves as civilized. "

" Not a single illegal immigrant should or need enter the United States, not one. Contrary to the common wisdom, the borders are easy to seal, and controlling entry is hardly totalitarian. "

" Never in any case say I have lost such a thing, but I have returned it. Is your child dead? It is a return. Is your wife dead? It is a return. Are you deprived of your estate? Is not this also a return? "

" Any successful nominee should possess both the temperament to interpret the law and the wisdom to do so fairly. The next Supreme Court Justice should have a record of protecting individual rights and a strong willingness to put aside any political agenda. "

Bennie Thompson

" Consider this point. It is a main point of true wisdom. Whenever there is an execution of purpose, there must be an agent. "

Adoniram Judson

" Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public. "

" One part of wisdom is knowing what you don't need anymore and letting it go. "