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" The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions. "

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

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" He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe. "

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" After all my possessions had been burned, God gave me the wisdom to return to Jerusalem. "

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" A child's education should begin at least one hundred years before he is born. "

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

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

" There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain. "

" We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already. "

Georg C. Lichtenberg

" While I have no empirical evidence to back this up, I bet that the number of homosexual people per thousand has not fluctuated all that much over the centuries. I do not believe the dented wisdom my father used to extol, that homosexuality was a sure sign of a civilization in decline. "

" Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it. "

" Never give up, which is the lesson I learned from boxing. As soon as you learn to never give up, you have to learn the power and wisdom of unconditional surrender, and that one doesn't cancel out the other; they just exist as contradictions. The wisdom of it comes as you get older. "

Kris Kristofferson

" If men possessed wisdom, which stands in the same relation to the form of man as the sight to the eye, they would not cause any injury to themselves or to others; for the knowledge of truth removes hatred and quarrels, and prevents mutual injuries. "

" A cardinal rule in budgeting and saving is to pay yourself first. Once your paycheck hits your account, wisdom has it that you should move some amount to savings even before you pay the bills. "

" Wisdom denotes the pursuing of the best ends by the best means. "

Francis Hutcheson

" We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom. "

Stephen Vincent Benet

" The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom. "

" Perhaps religious conscience upsets the designs of those who feel that the highest wisdom and authority comes from government. But from the beginning, this nation trusted in God, not man. Religious liberty is the first freedom in our Constitution. "

" The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living, which are to be desired when dying. "

" Once you label me you negate me. "

Soren Kierkegaard

" O, what a tangled web we weave when first we practise to deceive! "

" Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours. "

" Conventional wisdom on government's role in inequality often has it backwards. Tax reforms have resulted in a more progressive federal income tax; government transfer payments have become less progressive. "

" I'm a member of the 1960s generation. We didn't have any wisdom. "

" Earthly wisdom is doing what comes naturally. Godly wisdom is doing what the Holy Spirit compels us to do. "

Charles Stanley

" To think ill of mankind and not wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue. "

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" I believe that when an elder dies, a library is burned: vast sums of wisdom and knowledge are lost. Throughout the world libraries are ablaze with scant attention. "

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" A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow. "

Charlotte Bronte

" We must expect reverses, even defeats. They are sent to teach us wisdom and prudence, to call forth greater energies, and to prevent our falling into greater disasters. "

" Robots have already surpassed human beings in calculation and memory, but I have no doubt that the time will come when they will surpass in wisdom as well. "

" What is the price of experience? Do men buy it for a song? Or wisdom for a dance in the street? No, it is bought with the price of all the man hath, his house, his wife, his children. "