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" Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom. "

Phyllis Theroux

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" 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. "

" My own life is wonderful, but if I had to live the life of someone else, I'd gladly choose that of Julia Child or Dr. Seuss: two outrageously original people, each of whom fashioned an idiosyncratic wisdom, passion for life, and sense of humor into an art form that anyone and everyone could savor. "

" When an opponent comes forward, move in and greet him; if he wants to pull back, send him on his way. "

Morihei Ueshiba

" When you get older, you learn certain life lessons. You apply that wisdom, and suddenly you say, 'Hey, I've got a new lease on this thing. So let's go.' "

" If you're trying to achieve, there will be roadblocks. I've had them; everybody has had them. But obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it. "

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

Ezra Taft Benson

" War involves in its progress such a train of unforeseen circumstances that no human wisdom can calculate the end; it has but one thing certain, and that is to increase taxes. "

" A cardinal rule in budgeting and saving is to pay yourself first. Once your paycheck hits your account, wisdom has it that you should move some amount to savings even before you pay the bills. "

" Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable. "

Sydney J. Harris

" The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil. "

Marcus Tullius Cicero

" After a gig I always head back to the hotel, remembering granny's words of wisdom. I cancel the late-night pizza and watch the Jonathan Ross show instead. "

" Whatever religion or wisdom, spirituality and values are important to me and to the business. "

Isabelle Kocher

" I don't think you can come into your wisdom until you have made mistakes on your own skin and felt them in reality of your own life. "

Elizabeth Gilbert

" People spend too much time finding other people to blame, too much energy finding excuses for not being what they are capable of being, and not enough energy putting themselves on the line, growing out of the past, and getting on with their lives. "

J. Michael Straczynski

" Whatever position I occupied, it was the result of colleagues - of my comrades in the movement - who had decided in their wisdom to use me for the purpose of focusing the attention of the country and the international community on me. "

" Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion? "

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Julia Ward Howe

" Strong characters are brought out by change of situation, and gentle ones by permanence. "

" I will give you a definition of a proud man: he is a man who has neither vanity nor wisdom one filled with hatreds cannot be vain, neither can he be wise. "

" Everything important always begins from something trivial. "

" A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool. "

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

" No one wants advice - only corroboration. "

" You must learn day by day, year by year to broaden your horizon. The more things you love, the more you are interested in, the more you enjoy, the more you are indignant about, the more you have left when anything happens. "

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" Contrary to popular wisdom, the mark of a great meeting is not how short it is or whether it ends on time. The key is whether it ends with clarity and commitment from participants. "

Patrick Lencioni

" Pure, holy simplicity confounds all the wisdom of this world and the wisdom of the flesh. "

Francis of Assisi

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

" The truest greatness lies in being kind, the truest wisdom in a happy mind. "

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

" Your art kind of changes as you get older, by nature of the fact that you're hopefully gaining wisdom and you're starting to watch things with a better overview. "