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" Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable. "

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" This age thinks better of a gilded fool Than of a threadbare saint in wisdom's school. "

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

Martin H. Fischer

" Spiritual teachers and artists that have opened the eye of wisdom for the world, and visionary community builders, have influenced my work. "

" Both in thought and in feeling, even though time be real, to realise the unimportance of time is the gate of wisdom. "

Bertrand Russell

" Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom. "

Phyllis Theroux

" 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. "

" I had more energy at 50. On the other hand, at 75, I've probably got a little more wisdom and good judgment than I had at 50 because I've got more experience. But I haven't really changed. I'm still driven by the same philosophy. "

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

William Wordsworth

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

" I am deeply impressed with the gravity and wisdom with which most federal judges approach the responsibility of sentencing. It is a difficult, soul-searching task at best. "

" The hours of folly are measured by the clock; but of wisdom, no clock can measure. "

" We all have within us a deep wisdom, but sometimes we don't know we have it. "

" War involves in its progress such a train of unforeseen circumstances that no human wisdom can calculate the end; it has but one thing certain, and that is to increase taxes. "

" The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention. "

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

" Focus on the mind and the soul. Read. Study. Enrol in a course of lectures. Pray. Become a member of a religious congregation. Study the Bible or other ancient works of wisdom. "

" Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom. "

Ralph Waldo Emerson

" I'm exploring the maturity, the wisdom that just comes from having gone around the sun 50 times. My experience is, 'Oh, I'm never really going to get it right. I'm never going to get it done. But that's not the point here.' The point is the journey. "

Melissa Etheridge

" Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next. "

" I don't think you can come into your wisdom until you have made mistakes on your own skin and felt them in reality of your own life. "

Elizabeth Gilbert

" 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. "

" The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark. "

" 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. "

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

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

" What if Barack Obama established a Presidential Advisory Committee that would meet once every couple of months, bringing together the former presidents for a conference in order to seek their collective wisdom? There is a wealth of experience in former presidents that generally goes untapped. "

" If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner. "

Omar N. Bradley

" All wisdom does not reside in Delhi. "

" Words of wisdom are spoken by children at least as often as scientists. "

" Applause is a receipt, not a bill. "