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" The wheel that squeaks the loudest is the one that gets the grease. "

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

" Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself. "

" Wisdom is that apprehension of heavenly things to which the spirit rises through love. "

Honore de Balzac

" Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom. "

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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

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

Desiderius Erasmus

" Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment. "

" We are all responsible to Jesus first, and then, under him, to various other persons and offices. Discerning the path of love and obedience when two or more of these submissive relationships collide is a call to humble, Bible-saturated, spiritual wisdom. "

" Tis but a part we see, and not a whole. "

" In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head. "

Arthur Schopenhauer

" A good memory is surely a compost heap that converts experience to wisdom, creativity, or dottiness; not that these things are of much earthly value, but at least they may keep you amused when the world is keeping you locked away or shutting you out. "

" We are shallow because we are 'mayabang,' ego driven, and do not have the humility to understand that we are only human, much too human to mistake knowledge for wisdom. "

" A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself. "

" There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives. "

" Your law may be perfect, your knowledge of human affairs may be such as to enable you to apply it with wisdom and skill, and yet without individual acquaintance with men, their haunts and habits, the pursuit of the profession becomes difficult, slow, and expensive. "

" Authority without wisdom is like a heavy ax without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish. "

Anne Bradstreet

" A thought transfixed me: for the first time in my life, I saw the truth as it is set into song by so many poets, proclaimed as the final wisdom by so many thinkers. The truth - that love is the ultimate and the highest goal to which man can aspire. "

Viktor E. Frankl

" Everyone talks about how, in your 30s, all of these growing pains transition into wisdom and you feel more self-assured and confident, but I think I had a bit of a jump-start on that at 27. "

Solange Knowles

" The problem with Google is you have 360 degrees of omnidirectional information on a linear basis, but the algorithms for irony and ambiguity are not there. And those are the algorithms of wisdom. "

" The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are. "

" If you do not express your own original ideas, if you do not listen to your own being, you will have betrayed yourself. "

" There are people who are always anticipating trouble, and in this way they manage to enjoy many sorrows that never really happen to them. "

" The word philosophy sounds high-minded, but it simply means the love of wisdom. If you love something, you don't just read about it; you hug it, you mess with it, you play with it, you argue with it. "

" Most people see what they expect to see, what they want to see, what they've been told to see, what conventional wisdom tells them to see - not what is right in front of them in its pristine condition. "

Vincent Bugliosi

" Contrary to conventional wisdom, the blue blazer's a bit of a loose cannon. A suit decided long ago what it wanted to be, and it doesn't want to hear your ideas, but a blue blazer only got around to half the job. So it leaves it up to you to find its bottoms. Gray slacks, blue jeans, patterns, white pants and different blue shades all work. "

" No one wants advice - only corroboration. "

" It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters. "

" One of the greatest victories you can gain over someone is to beat him at politeness. "

" It is better to know nothing than to know what ain't so. "

" Genius ain't anything more than elegant common sense. "