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" Strong characters are brought out by change of situation, and gentle ones by permanence. "

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" 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. "

" The greater the step forward in knowledge, the greater is the one taken backward in search of wisdom. "

Stephen Gardiner

" He who devotes sixteen hours a day to hard study may become at sixty as wise as he thought himself at twenty. "

Mary Wilson Little

" Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself. "

Marcus Tullius Cicero

" Deliberately seek opportunities for kindness, sympathy, and patience. "

Evelyn Underhill

" We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started. "

Henry Ward Beecher

" Knowledge is marvelous, but wisdom is even better. "

Kay Redfield Jamison

" Appearances are often deceiving. "

" When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust the action steps. "

" 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. "

" You need to have extraordinary wisdom to be the forerunner. "

" The opinion which other people have of you is their problem, not yours. "

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

" 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.

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

" If you were to offer a thirsty man all wisdom, you would not please him more than if you gave him a drink. "

" Until there are tangible metrics for quantifying the real value of a token's utility, the gap between value and valuation will continue to defy conventional wisdom and conventional valuation methods. "

William Mougayar

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

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. "

" Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there. "

" The truest wisdom is a resolute determination. "

Napoleon Bonaparte

" Contemplation and wisdom are highest achievements and man is not totally at home with them. "

" Irony is the gaiety of reflection and the joy of wisdom. "

" The Divine wisdom has given us prayer, not as a means whereby to obtain the good things of earth, but as a means whereby we learn to do without them; not as a means whereby we escape evil, but as a means whereby we become strong to meet it. "

Frederick William Robertson

" If we have built on the fragile cornerstones of human wisdom, pride, and conditional love, things may look good for a while, but a weak foundation causes collapse when storms hit. "

Charles Stanley

" Everyone has always underestimated a company headquartered in Salt Lake City, Utah. The New York boys thought they could take me on, that nobody out here has any knowledge or wisdom. "

Jon Huntsman, Sr.

" The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom. "

" I consider wisdom supernatural because it isn't taught by men - it's a gift from God. "

" You have to find out what's right for you, so it's trial and error. You are going to be all right if you accept realistic goals for yourself. "

" There is no knowledge, no light, no wisdom that you are in possession of, but what you have received it from some source. "

" We can't really digest food unless there's hunger. So we can't really assimilate spiritual wisdom unless we feel the need for it. "

Radhanath Swami