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" Sciences may be learned by rote, but wisdom not. "

Laurence Sterne

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" Commitment is an act, not a word. "

Jean-Paul Sartre

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

" Wisdom sails with wind and time. "

" Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out. "

" 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.

" Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information? "

" The doors of wisdom are never shut. "

Benjamin Franklin

" Lessons of wisdom have the most power over us when they capture the heart through the groundwork of a story, which engages the passions. "

Laurence Sterne

" However glorious an action in itself, it ought not to pass for great if it be not the effect of wisdom and intention. "

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

" Through the years, I, like you, have experienced pressures and disappointments that would have crushed me had I not been able to draw upon a source of wisdom and strength far greater than my own. He has never forgotten or forsaken me, and I have come to know for myself that Jesus is the Christ and that this is His Church. "

" Never reach out your hand unless you're willing to extend an arm. "

" Man is only great when he acts from passion. "

Benjamin Disraeli

" While people are quick to praise the wisdom of the crowd, being an old-school journalist, I look at the wisdom of the crowd and know it can quickly turn into a mob mentality. "

Jason Calacanis

" Whatever one thinks of the wisdom of building a mosque near Ground Zero, this controversy now affords us an immense opportunity to examine who we are as a people. It provides us with the opportunity to get back to our foundational ideals, which have always stood as a beacon for the rest of the world. "

" We learn from each other. We learn from others' mistakes, from their experience, their wisdom. It makes it easier for us to come to better decisions in our own lives. "

" Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences. "

" He dares to be a fool, and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom. "

" We live in a culture that doesn't acknowledge or validate human intuition and doesn't encourage us to rely on our intuitive wisdom. "

" Alas! if the principles of contentment are not within us, the height of station and worldly grandeur will as soon add a cubit to a man's stature as to his happiness. "

Laurence Sterne

" Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking. "

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

" The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions. "

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

" 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. "

" If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise. "

William Butler Yeats

" When you betray somebody else, you also betray yourself. "

Isaac Bashevis Singer

" Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds. "

" Trouble shared is trouble halved. "

" Habit is the nursery of errors. "

" Your aim will be knowledge and wisdom, not the reflected glamour of fame. "

Abbott L. Lowell

" Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago. "

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe