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" Men who know themselves are no longer fools. They stand on the threshold of the door of Wisdom. "

" 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

" Wisdom comes by disillusionment. "

George Santayana

Disillusionment

" Our great power does not mean we can do whatever we want whenever we want, nor should we assume we have all the wisdom and knowledge necessary to succeed. "

" 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. "

" The stupidity of people comes from having an answer for everything. The wisdom of the novel comes from having a question for everything. "

" If I am fool, it is, at least, a doubting one; and I envy no one the certainty of his self-approved wisdom. "

" Irony is the gaiety of reflection and the joy of wisdom. "

" In utter loneliness a writer tries to explain the inexplicable. "

" Vanity can easily overtake wisdom. It usually overtakes common sense. "

Julian Casablancas

" When you give yourself, you receive more than you give. "

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

" Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration. "

Thomas A. Edison

" The online musical universe has become Balkanized, with many sites focusing on minute niches. That works well for reaching very specific demographics, which is wonderful for advertising, but it flies in the face of the common wisdom that people's tastes have become more diverse as music of any description has become a mouse-click away. "

Michael Azerrad

" Champions invariably have fervent philosophical beliefs. Philosophy, in its simplest terms, means 'the love of wisdom.' "

" I am not the first Buddha who came upon Earth, nor shall I be the last. In due time, another Buddha will arise in the world - a Holy One, a supremely enlightened One, endowed with wisdom in conduct, auspicious, knowing the universe, an incomparable leader of men, a master of angels and mortals. "

" Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. And don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines. "

Richard M. Nixon

" You must accept responsibility for your actions, but not the credit for your achievements. "

" I am thinking of taking a fifth wife. Why not? Solomon had a thousand wives and he is a synonym for wisdom. "

" Both in thought and in feeling, even though time be real, to realise the unimportance of time is the gate of wisdom. "

Bertrand Russell

" The ultimate wisdom which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed. There it lies, the simplest fact of the universe and at the same time the one which calls faith rather than reason. "

" I don't see the wisdom in modern politicians that I once saw in men like Dean Acheson, David Bruce, or George Marshall. In my day, the northeastern establishment dominated foreign policy formulation, but the composition and distribution of our population is very different today. "

Henry Kissinger

" Whenever you argue with another wiser than yourself in order that others may admire your wisdom, they will discover your ignorance. "

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

William Ralph Inge

" Swim upstream. Go the other way. Ignore the conventional wisdom. "

" We're living in a society where you need to be accountable for your actions, for your behavior - for yourself. To sit back and be reactive would be to allow your children to make big mistakes without the benefit of your wisdom being bestowed on them. It's not what my parents taught me. "

" It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone. "

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

" The doors of wisdom are never shut. "

Benjamin Franklin

" What a company's been earning doesn't mean anything. What you have to look at is what people think it's going to earn. If you can see something in two years is going to be entirely different than the conventional wisdom, that's how you make money. "

Stanley Druckenmiller

" Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom. "

Charles Spurgeon

" 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. "