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" Multicolored stones and paintings, walkways, and theaters are useless in a city unless it also contains wisdom and law. Such things are the subject of wisdom and law, not equivalent to them. "

Apollonius of Tyana

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" 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. "

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" Let my skin and sinews and bones dry up, together with all the flesh and blood of my body! I welcome it! But I will not move from this spot until I have attained the supreme and final wisdom. "

" Who in their infinite wisdom decreed that Little League uniforms be white? Certainly not a mother. "

" Wisdom consists not so much in knowing what to do in the ultimate as knowing what to do next. "

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

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

" Wisdom is found only in truth. "

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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" You should never ask a horse or an actor to do something they cannot do. Wisdom will teach you to find out what they can do and then make it easy for them. "

Tommy Lee Jones

" Wisdom cannot come by railroad or automobile or aeroplane, or be hurried up by telegraph or telephone. "

" The problem lies with us: we've become addicted to experts. We've become addicted to their certainty, their assuredness, their definitiveness, and in the process, we have ceded our responsibility, substituting our intellect and our intelligence for their supposed words of wisdom. "

Noreena Hertz

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" 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. "

" Pain makes man think. Thought makes man wise. Wisdom makes life endurable. "