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" Rarely promise, but, if lawful, constantly perform. "

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Ethel Barrymore

" The future has already arrived. It's just not evenly distributed yet. "

" Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess, and yet all the honesty in the world ain't lawful tender for a loaf of bread. "

" If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail. "

" Doubt the conventional wisdom unless you can verify it with reason and experiment. "

" He who is taught to live upon little owes more to his father's wisdom than he who has a great deal left him does to his father's care. "

" It's the little details that are vital. Little things make big things happen. "

" Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two. A constant coming and going: wisdom lies in the momentary. "

" Some folks are wise and some are otherwise. "

Tobias Smollett

" To be satisfied with a little, is the greatest wisdom; and he that increaseth his riches, increaseth his cares; but a contented mind is a hidden treasure, and trouble findeth it not. "

" The biggest handicap in research is an ability to think outside the box. The handicap is being encumbered by all the conventional wisdom in a given field. "

" I know that inner wisdom is more precious than wealth. The more you spend it, the more you gain. "

" The best way to obtain truth and wisdom is not to ask from books, but to go to God in prayer, and obtain divine teaching. "

Joseph Smith, Jr.

" 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

" Beware, so long as you live, of judging men by their outward appearance. "

Jean de La Fontaine

" Humanity's legacy of stories and storytelling is the most precious we have. All wisdom is in our stories and songs. A story is how we construct our experiences. At the very simplest, it can be: 'He/she was born, lived, died.' Probably that is the template of our stories - a beginning, middle, and end. This structure is in our minds. "

" Big money is not a good thing for a little soul: it will only ensnare his feet, and he will fall to his ruin. Wealth is safe only for those who have a wealth of wisdom. "

" 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

" A true friend freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably. "

" I prefer the folly of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom. "

" Authority without wisdom is like a heavy ax without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish. "

Anne Bradstreet

" Never say never, but the thought of electively cutting oneself is beyond my grasp, and I also object to it politically. Denying the lines on our faces makes a comment about age and wisdom I don't care to make. "

" Giving opens the way for receiving. "

Florence Scovel Shinn

" Christian, learn from Christ how you ought to love Christ. Learn a love that is tender, wise, strong; love with tenderness, not passion, wisdom, not foolishness, and strength, lest you become weary and turn away from the love of the Lord. "

" Though sages may pour out their wisdom's treasure, there is no sterner moralist than pleasure. "

" When I was born, the wisdom was that homosexuality was an illness; that it was caused largely by somebody's mother, and a distorted relationship with the mother. And now, as I live my life - married to a husband, with kids - it's an identity. "

" What could be more lonely than to be enveloped in silence, to be the last of your people to speak your native tongue, to have no way to pass on the wisdom of the elders, to anticipate the promise of the children. This tragic fate is indeed the plight of someone somewhere roughly every two weeks. "

" Wisdom sails with wind and time. "

" A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right. "

" It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen. "

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.