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" My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate. "

Thornton Wilder

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" I'm always feeling like I'm lacking wisdom. This reassurance that one can ask God for that and it will happen is certainly reassuring to me. "

Francis Collins

" The wheel that squeaks the loudest is the one that gets the grease. "

" Earthly wisdom is doing what comes naturally. Godly wisdom is doing what the Holy Spirit compels us to do. "

Charles Stanley

" In an era in which war and terrorism - at home and abroad - are often based on racial, religious and ethnic differences, rediscovering the wisdom of love and compassion may help us increase our survival at a time when an increasingly divided country and world so badly need it. "

" Wisdom outweighs any wealth. "

" Lion sounds that have not grown from the mouse may exude naked power... but cannot convey any wisdom or understanding... The initial steps on the path to courageous speech then are the first tentative steps into the parts of us that cannot speak. "

" Community organizing is all about building grassroots support. It's about identifying the people around you with whom you can create a common, passionate cause. And it's about ignoring the conventional wisdom of company politics and instead playing the game by very different rules. "

" Repeat anything often enough and it will start to become you. "

" There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart. "

Charles Dickens

" Memory is the mother of all wisdom. "

" My mom calls me an older soul because, growing up, she taught me stuff real early. Now I spend most of my time chasing wisdom, chasing understanding. "

" Your law may be perfect, your knowledge of human affairs may be such as to enable you to apply it with wisdom and skill, and yet without individual acquaintance with men, their haunts and habits, the pursuit of the profession becomes difficult, slow, and expensive. "

" We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already. "

Georg C. Lichtenberg

" We humans have lost the wisdom of genuinely resting and relaxing. We worry too much. We don't allow our bodies to heal, and we don't allow our minds and hearts to heal. "

" The hours of folly are measured by the clock; but of wisdom, no clock can measure. "

" I'm very accepting with my age. It's like notches on your belt: experience, wisdom, and a different kind of beauty. There comes a day when you've become comfortable in your skin. "

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

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

" The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages is preserved into perpetuity by a nation's proverbs, fables, folk sayings and quotations. "

William Feather

" Never cut what you can untie. "

" Because you are women, people will force their thinking on you, their boundaries on you. They will tell you how to dress, how to behave, who you can meet and where you can go. Don't live in the shadows of people's judgement. Make your own choices in the light of your own wisdom. "

Amitabh Bachchan

" It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters. "

" It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own. "

William Ralph Inge

" Public opinion is no more than this: what people think that other people think. "

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

Michel de Montaigne

" I reject most conventional wisdom. "

Conventional Wisdom

" In order to have wisdom we must have ignorance. "

Theodore Dreiser

" As a parent and a citizen, I'll take a Bill Gates (or Warren Buffett) over Steve Jobs every time. If we must have billionaires, better they should ignore Jobs's example and instead embrace the morality and wisdom of the great industrialist-philanthropist Andrew Carnegie. "

" Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity. "

" 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. "

John Rhys-Davies

" Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds. "