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" Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable. "

Sydney J. Harris

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" Discipline is wisdom and vice versa. "

" Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus. "

Wallace Stegner

" Man works outwardly and inwardly - after rest, he has energy; after energy, he needs repose; so, when we have given instruction for a time, we need instruction and must receive it, or the spirit faints and wisdom herself grows bitter. "

" When written in Chinese, the word 'crisis' is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity. "

John F. Kennedy

" Cunning... is but the low mimic of wisdom. "

" Life is a travelling to the edge of knowledge, then a leap taken. "

" Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young. "

Rabindranath Tagore

" Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification. "

Martin H. Fischer

" Global security can be formed or threatened by heads of state whose wisdom, folly and obsessions shape global events. But often it is the security practitioners, those rarely in the headlines but whose craft and energy quietly break new ground, who keep us safe or put us in peril. "

" Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence and deem them like the Ark of the Covenant, too sacred to be touched. They ascribe to men of the preceding age a wisdom more than human and suppose what they did to be beyond amendment. "

" 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. "

" Wisdom cannot come by railroad or automobile or aeroplane, or be hurried up by telegraph or telephone. "

" If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size? "

Sydney J. Harris

" Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it. "

Henry Ward Beecher

" Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. "

Alfred Lord Tennyson

" 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 is oftentimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar. "

William Wordsworth

" Every speaker has a mouth; An arrangement rather neat. Sometimes it's filled with wisdom. Sometimes it's filled with feet. "

" It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see. "

Henry David Thoreau

" The less you talk, the more you're listened to. "

Pauline Phillips

" If you want a thing done well, do it yourself. "

Napoleon Bonaparte

" If an idea is indeed sensible, it will eventually become just part of the accepted wisdom. "

" Better than the strength of men and horses is our wisdom. "

" The two words 'information' and 'communication' are often used interchangeably, but they signify quite different things. Information is giving out; communication is getting through. "

Sydney J. Harris

" Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents. "

" Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom. "

Marcus Tullius Cicero

" Wisdom is knowing when you can't be wise. "

" Memory is the mother of all wisdom. "

" 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. "

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

Theodore Dreiser