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" They whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed. "

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" 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

" Man's wisdom is his best friend; folly his worst enemy. "

" Who is wise in love, love most, say least. "

Alfred Lord Tennyson

" Many of us spend half of our time wishing for things we could have if we didn't spend half our time wishing. "

Alexander Woollcott

" 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

" Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed. "

" Surely, God on high has not refused to give us enough wisdom to find ways to bring us an improvement in relations between the two great nations on earth. "

Mikhail Gorbachev

" If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise. "

William Butler Yeats

" Deliberately seek opportunities for kindness, sympathy, and patience. "

Evelyn Underhill

" Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom. "

Phyllis Theroux

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

William Dean Howells

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

Francis Hutcheson

" It seems to me that, in every culture, I come across a chapter headed 'Wisdom.' And then I know exactly what is going to follow: 'Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.' "

Ludwig Wittgenstein

" If you wish to reach the highest, begin at the lowest. "

Publilius Syrus

" To comprehend the Wisdom of this Injunction the better, and explain the Duty before us, it should be considered, that Government is the only Means by which human Happiness can be attained. "

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

Martin H. Fischer

" I covered my face because they had taken my wisdom teeth out. "

" Few of the many wise apothegms which have been uttered have prevented a single foolish action. "

Thomas Babington Macaulay

" There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart. "

Charles Dickens

" He dares to be a fool, and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom. "

" God moves in a mysterious way, His wonders to perform. He plants his footsteps in the sea, and rides upon the storm. "

" It takes a great man to give sound advice tactfully, but a greater to accept it graciously. "

Logan Pearsall Smith

" All of us, at certain moments of our lives, need to take advice and to receive help from other people. "

" The woods were a boon; all too often, the forest offered danger and mystery. Yet it could be liberating. If you entered that wild place on its own terms, you might be accorded wisdom. "

" 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. "

" Alas, those six unfortunate souls who have made their way through my books know that every one of them is about Emerson and Thoreau and their dark counters, Melville and Emily Dickinson. Try as I might, I can't get their inspirations, their challenges and sentences and wisdom and questions out of my head. "

" 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. "

" Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself; the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache. "

Gilbert K. Chesterton