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" Money can be taken away from you, by the IRS or by pistol. That's why I always measure riches in terms of wisdom. No one can ever take from you what you know. "

Juan Gabriel

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

" 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. "

" Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification. "

Martin H. Fischer

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" People used to grow up in small communities where folk wisdom was passed down. But we don't live there anymore. We can't go next door to your aunt and ask her for the answers. "

Clarissa Pinkola Estes

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

Ramakrishna

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" By the time you've reached your sixties, you do know that one day you will die, and knowing that is at least the beginning of wisdom. "

" Age is a terrible avenger. The lessons of life give you so much to work with, but by the time you've got all this great wisdom, you don't get to be young anymore. "

" 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. "

" Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable. "

" It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important. "

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

" Combine the extremes, and you will have the true center. "

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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" It is not who is right, but what is right, that is of importance. "

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

" Wisdom is the quality that keeps you from getting into situations where you need it. "

" Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it. "

" 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. "

" All human wisdom works and has worries and grief as reward. "

" There is something about a mortarboard that gives otherwise sane and normal people the overwhelming urge to burden you with advice. Some of them cannot help themselves. They were asked to do it by a committee. But one can only take so many pieces of wisdom before they all start to blur together. "

" Knowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom. "

" Wisdom and knowledge are the most valuable things in the body. "

" Each of us has been put on earth with the ability to do something well. We cheat ourselves and the world if we don't use that ability as best we can. "

" Robots have already surpassed human beings in calculation and memory, but I have no doubt that the time will come when they will surpass in wisdom as well. "

" Beware, so long as you live, of judging men by their outward appearance. "

" I'd love to spend more time on the Isle of Man. I love the anonymity of putting on a boiler suit and going down to buy parts for the compressor. And Norman Wisdom's a neighbour; I salute him occasionally. "

" A mistake is simply another way of doing things. "

" He who devotes sixteen hours a day to hard study may become at sixty as wise as he thought himself at twenty. "

" I had more energy at 50. On the other hand, at 75, I've probably got a little more wisdom and good judgment than I had at 50 because I've got more experience. But I haven't really changed. I'm still driven by the same philosophy. "