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" Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency. "

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" If fortune favors you do not be elated; if she frowns do not despond. "

" It's very hard to know what wisdom is. "

" A great memory is never made synonymous with wisdom, any more than a dictionary would be called a treatise. "

John Henry Newman

" I seem to have this need to belong to some church. I get worried on Sunday mornings. "

" We are wiser than we know. "

Ralph Waldo Emerson

" Much wisdom often goes with fewest words. "

" I see no intrinsic reason why a doubly talented artist might not arise and create a comic-strip novel masterpiece. "

" It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf. "

Walter Lippmann

" 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. "

" A proverb is the wisdom of many and the wit of one. "

Lord John Russell

" From the errors of others, a wise man corrects his own. "

Publilius Syrus

" Knowledge is going to make you stronger. Knowledge is going to let you control your life. Knowledge is going to give you the wisdom to teach their children. Knowledge is the thing that makes you smile in the face of disaster. "

" The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom. "

" There should always be something gratuitous about art, just as there seems to be, according to the new-wave cosmologists, something gratuitous about the universe. "

" In the end, the real wisdom of menopause may be in questioning how fun or even sane this chore wheel called modern life actually is. "

Sandra Tsing Loh

" Deliberately seek opportunities for kindness, sympathy, and patience. "

Evelyn Underhill

" Surely wisdom will come as we listen to learn from children, parents, partners, neighbors, Church leaders, and the Lord. "

Russell M. Nelson

" I learned some valuable lessons about the legislative process, the importance of bipartisan cooperation and the wisdom of taking small steps to get a big job done. "

Hillary Clinton

" Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own. "

" What happens is not as important as how you react to what happens. "

" 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. "

" Rightly defined philosophy is simply the love of wisdom. "

Marcus Tullius Cicero

" Perhaps religious conscience upsets the designs of those who feel that the highest wisdom and authority comes from government. But from the beginning, this nation trusted in God, not man. Religious liberty is the first freedom in our Constitution. "

" In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause. "

" For some of us, books are intrinsic to our sense of personal identity. "

" Contrary to conventional wisdom, the blue blazer's a bit of a loose cannon. A suit decided long ago what it wanted to be, and it doesn't want to hear your ideas, but a blue blazer only got around to half the job. So it leaves it up to you to find its bottoms. Gray slacks, blue jeans, patterns, white pants and different blue shades all work. "

" John Barth, I think, was really a writer of my own age and somewhat of my own temperament, although his books are very different from mine, and he has been a spokesman for the very ambitious, long, rather academic novel. But I don't think that what he is saying, so far as I understand it, is so very different from what I'm saying. "

" Humor is my default mode. "