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

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" Wisdom is a kind of knowledge. It is knowledge of the nature, career, and consequences of human values. "

" For myself, I think that those who cultivate wisdom and believe themselves able to instruct their fellow-citizens as to their interests are least likely to become partisans of violence. They are too well aware that to violence attach enmities and dangers, whereas results as good may be obtained by persuasion safely and amicably. "

" Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it. "

George Santayana

" We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it. "

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

" Multicolored stones and paintings, walkways, and theaters are useless in a city unless it also contains wisdom and law. Such things are the subject of wisdom and law, not equivalent to them. "

Apollonius of Tyana

" People don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're happy. "

" Wisdom has never made a bigot, but learning has. "

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

John F. Kennedy

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

" 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

" I have no agenda except to be funny. Neither I or the writers profess to offer any worldly wisdom. "

Julia Louis-Dreyfus

" Arianna Huffington has exercised her renowned wisdom to give journalism another boost along the ever busier Internet. Her blog site promises to be an interesting challenge for those of us lucky enough to be invited to participate with our occasional contributions. "

Walter Cronkite

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

" Wisdom and knowledge are the most valuable things in the body. "

" We are wiser than we know. "

Ralph Waldo Emerson

" Wisdom is the knowledge of good and evil, not the strength to choose between the two. "

" The truth is not for all men, but only for those who seek it. "

" Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. "

Alfred Lord Tennyson

" The more one pleases everybody, the less one pleases profoundly. "

" Around '93, '94, the conventional wisdom about the Internet was that it was a toy for academics and researchers. So it was very, very underestimated for about two years. "

Marc Andreessen

" Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency. "

" From the errors of others, a wise man corrects his own. "

Publilius Syrus

" You should never ask a horse or an actor to do something they cannot do. Wisdom will teach you to find out what they can do and then make it easy for them. "

Tommy Lee Jones

" I don't think I really have any wisdom. Stay out of trouble. Good luck. Stay away from women because they will burn you, haha. "

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

Napoleon Bonaparte

" Travelers repose and dream among my leaves. "

" Be as you wish to seem. "

" No single person can possess the wisdom to chart our course. "

Jonathan Schell

" Every indication of wisdom, taken from the effect, is equally an indication of power to execute what wisdom planned. "