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" Let us act on what we have, since we have not what we wish. "

John Henry Newman

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" I'm at the transition place myself, still playing high school girls but moving to a stage when I'm playing older roles and going to the places of stillness and wisdom and knowledge and weight. It's exciting and scary. "

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" I praise loudly. I blame softly. "

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" A great memory does not make a mind, any more than a dictionary is a piece of literature. "

John Henry Newman

" Wisdom is found only in truth. "

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

" A closed mouth catches no flies. "

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" It takes a great man to give sound advice tactfully, but a greater to accept it graciously. "

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" Of prosperity mortals can never have enough. "

" Virtues are acquired through endeavor, which rests wholly upon yourself. "

" 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. "

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" If you want to go east, don't go west. "

" 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. "

Henry Ward Beecher

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

" It used to be, it is accepted scientific wisdom the Earth is flat, and this heretic named Galileo was branded a denier. "

" 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. "

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

" If we are intended for great ends, we are called to great hazards. "

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" In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause. "

" Theology in general seems to me a substitution of human ingenuity for divine wisdom. "

Julia Ward Howe

" Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well. "

Ralph Waldo Emerson

" 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

" Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself. "

Marcus Tullius Cicero

" The beginning of wisdom is to desire it. "

Solomon Ibn Gabirol

" Never accept ultimatums, conventional wisdom, or absolutes. "

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" A good memory is surely a compost heap that converts experience to wisdom, creativity, or dottiness; not that these things are of much earthly value, but at least they may keep you amused when the world is keeping you locked away or shutting you out. "

" The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing. "

" The word philosophy sounds high-minded, but it simply means the love of wisdom. If you love something, you don't just read about it; you hug it, you mess with it, you play with it, you argue with it. "