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

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

" 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. "

" People happy in love have an air of intensity. "

" Pain makes man think. Thought makes man wise. Wisdom makes life endurable. "

" You want people walking away from the conversation with some kernel of wisdom or some kind of impact. "

Harry Dean Stanton

" Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake. "

Napoleon Bonaparte

" Holy wisdom confounds Satan and all his wickednesses. "

Francis of Assisi

" A closed mouth catches no flies. "

Miguel de Cervantes

" Wisdom comes by disillusionment. "

George Santayana

Disillusionment

" Since human wisdom cannot secure us from accidents, it is the greatest effort of reason to bear them well. "

John Paul Jones

" Economists often like startling theorems, results which seem to run counter to conventional wisdom. "

Joseph Stiglitz

" Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures. "

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

" The wisdom of God is so great that He also knows exactly what I would think and do under every possible circumstance and situation, and he placed me in that state of life and situation best suited for my salvation. "

Mother Angelica

" Because you are women, people will force their thinking on you, their boundaries on you. They will tell you how to dress, how to behave, who you can meet and where you can go. Don't live in the shadows of people's judgement. Make your own choices in the light of your own wisdom. "

Amitabh Bachchan

" Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in the way in which the man of practical wisdom would determine it. "

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

" The wisdom acquired with the passage of time is a useless gift unless you share it. "

Esther Williams

" Who in their infinite wisdom decreed that Little League uniforms be white? Certainly not a mother. "

" The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages is preserved into perpetuity by a nation's proverbs, fables, folk sayings and quotations. "

William Feather

" Surely wisdom will come as we listen to learn from children, parents, partners, neighbors, Church leaders, and the Lord. "

Russell M. Nelson

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

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

" A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love. "

" What we call wisdom is the result of all the wisdom of past ages. Our best institutions are like young trees growing upon the roots of the old trunks that have crumbled away. "

Henry Ward Beecher

" Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion? "

Friedrich Nietzsche

" Everything important always begins from something trivial. "

" It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err. "

" 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. "

" Enraging liberals is simply one of the more enjoyable side effects of my wisdom. "

" Age is a terrible avenger. The lessons of life give you so much to work with, but by the time you've got all this great wisdom, you don't get to be young anymore. "

Elizabeth Wurtzel

" Justice Scalia was a lion of the law. Agree or disagree with him, all of his colleagues on the bench shared his wisdom and his humor. And like them, I miss him. "