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" Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe. "

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" 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. "

" You’d better not know so much, than to know so many things that ain’t so. "

" We can be knowledgable with other men's knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom. "

Michel de Montaigne

" Many sophisticated, intelligent people lack wisdom and common sense. "

" Men who know themselves are no longer fools. They stand on the threshold of the door of Wisdom. "

" I am profoundly indebted to the legacy of Wilhelm Reich, whose monumental contribution to the understanding of energy was taught to me by Philip Curcurruto, a man of simple wisdom and compassionate heart. "

Peter A. Levine

" Today's mighty oak is just yesterday's nut, that held its ground. "

" Authority without wisdom is like a heavy ax without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish. "

Anne Bradstreet

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

Harold S. Geneen

" Quick decisions are unsafe decisions. "

" One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know. "

John Kenneth Galbraith

" God knows and sees all. His wisdom and knowledge far outweighs mankind, and whether or not people ever recognize it - He is the creator. He is the giver of life, and only He has the power to take it away. That's why its imperative to submit to Him. "

" Don't gain the world and lose your soul; wisdom is better than silver or gold. "

" Imagination allows us to escape the predictable. It enables us to reply to the common wisdom that we cannot soar by saying, 'Just watch!' "

" We all admire the wisdom of people who come to us for advice. "

" Cunning... is but the low mimic of wisdom. "

" To light one candle to God and another to the Devil is the principle of wisdom. "

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

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

" Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment. "

" I consider wisdom supernatural because it isn't taught by men - it's a gift from God. "

" Wisdom may best arise from a humbling reality. "

" Logic is the beginning of wisdom, not the end. "

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

Marcus Tullius Cicero

" Wise sayings often fall on barren ground, but a kind word is never thrown away. "

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

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

" There is a universal, intelligent, life force that exists within everyone and everything. It resides within each one of us as a deep wisdom, an inner knowing. We can access this wonderful source of knowledge and wisdom through our intuition, an inner sense that tells us what feels right and true for us at any given moment. "

" Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal. "

" Cleverness is not wisdom. "

" The Divine wisdom has given us prayer, not as a means whereby to obtain the good things of earth, but as a means whereby we learn to do without them; not as a means whereby we escape evil, but as a means whereby we become strong to meet it. "

Frederick William Robertson

" 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