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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. "

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" Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment. "

" Some coaches pray for wisdom. I pray for 260-pound tackles. They'll give me plenty of wisdom. "

" Women are stronger than men - they do not die of wisdom. "

" The most excellent and divine counsel, the best and most profitable advertisement of all others, but the least practiced, is to study and learn how to know ourselves. This is the foundation of wisdom and the highway to whatever is good. "

" Has fortune dealt you some bad cards. Then let wisdom make you a good gamester. "

" Memory is the mother of all wisdom. "

" A short saying often contains much wisdom. "

" Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences. "

" This is what I learned: that everybody is talented, original and has something important to say. "

" There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still. "

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Forward

Standing

Going

" Sometimes I am happy and sometimes not. I am, after all, a human being, you know. And I am glad that we are sometimes happy and sometimes not. You get your wisdom working by having different emotions. "

" Instead of looking at life as a narrowing funnel, we can see it ever widening to choose the things we want to do, to take the wisdom we've learned and create something. "

" People spend too much time finding other people to blame, too much energy finding excuses for not being what they are capable of being, and not enough energy putting themselves on the line, growing out of the past, and getting on with their lives. "

J. Michael Straczynski

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

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Folly

Great

Wise

" It is while you are patiently toiling at the little tasks of life that the meaning and shape of the great whole of life dawn on you. "

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

" What is the price of experience? Do men buy it for a song? Or wisdom for a dance in the street? No, it is bought with the price of all the man hath, his house, his wife, his children. "

" 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. "

" Let us act on what we have, since we have not what we wish. "

John Henry Newman

Wisdom

Since

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

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Love

Wisdom

Simply

" I will give you a definition of a proud man: he is a man who has neither vanity nor wisdom one filled with hatreds cannot be vain, neither can he be wise. "

" What is man's ultimate direction in life? It is to look for love, truth, virtue, and beauty. "

" I was twice-born. I'm Mexican by nature and Hungarian by nurture. "

Clarissa Pinkola Estes

Nature

Nurture

Hungarian

" Wisdom is nothing but a preparation of the soul, a capacity, a secret art of thinking, feeling and breathing thoughts of unity at every moment of life. "

" 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. "

" Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else. "

" Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well. "

" Some say that sudden knowledge of mystical matters is accomplished only in complete quietude, or that Creator, in one of God's many forms, appears only in orderly ways that are beauteous and picturesque, or that the mystical appears only in completely silent ways. All are true. Except for the 'only' part. "

Clarissa Pinkola Estes

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True

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" Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of. "