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" The stupidity of people comes from having an answer for everything. The wisdom of the novel comes from having a question for everything. "

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" When a thing is done, it's done. Don't look back. Look forward to your next objective. "

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" Wisdom begins in wonder. "

" We are wiser than we know. "

Ralph Waldo Emerson

" Without the meditative background that is criticism, works become isolated gestures, historical accidents, soon forgotten. "

" God knows and sees all. His wisdom and knowledge far outweighs mankind, and whether or not people ever recognize it - He is the creator. He is the giver of life, and only He has the power to take it away. That's why its imperative to submit to Him. "

" I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures. "

" Hurricane Katrina overwhelmed levees and exploded the conventional wisdom about a shared American prosperity, exposing a group of people so poor they didn't have $50 for a bus ticket out of town. If we want to learn something from this disaster, the lesson ought to be: America's poor deserve better than this. "

Michael Eric Dyson

" Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe. "

" It is wisdom in prosperity, when all is as thou wouldn't have it, to fear and suspect the worst. "

Desiderius Erasmus

" Wisdom is not acquired save as the result of investigation. "

" Plodding wins the race. "

" To profit from good advice requires more wisdom than to give it. "

" When I was a little boy in short pants, I dreamed about a miraculous ointment that would make me invisible. Then I became an adult, began to write, and wanted to be successful. Now I'm successful and would like to have the ointment that would make me invisible. "

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

Martin H. Fischer

" The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations. "

Benjamin Disraeli

" Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit. "

" Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young. "

Rabindranath Tagore

" Spend time reflecting on your emotional and physical existence and how that applies to the voice. You have to apply that wisdom and experience when you sing - it's what comes through. "

" The key to wisdom is this - constant and frequent questioning, for by doubting we are led to question and by questioning we arrive at the truth. "

" Any successful nominee should possess both the temperament to interpret the law and the wisdom to do so fairly. The next Supreme Court Justice should have a record of protecting individual rights and a strong willingness to put aside any political agenda. "

Bennie Thompson

" Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom. "

" Wisdom and goodness are twin-born, one heart must hold both sisters, never seen apart. "

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

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" Pure, holy simplicity confounds all the wisdom of this world and the wisdom of the flesh. "

Francis of Assisi

" I know more about what it's like to be elderly and infirm and kind of stupid, the way you get forgetful, but on the other hand I'm a littler, wiser, dare we say? The word 'wisdom' has kind of faded out of our vocabulary, but yeah, I'm a little wiser. "

" One part of wisdom is knowing what you don't need anymore and letting it go. "

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