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" To avoid entangling alliances has been a maxim of our policy ever since the days of Washington, and its wisdom no one will attempt to dispute. "

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

Stephen Vincent Benet

" You should never ask a horse or an actor to do something they cannot do. Wisdom will teach you to find out what they can do and then make it easy for them. "

Tommy Lee Jones

" In an era in which war and terrorism - at home and abroad - are often based on racial, religious and ethnic differences, rediscovering the wisdom of love and compassion may help us increase our survival at a time when an increasingly divided country and world so badly need it. "

" Contrary to popular wisdom, the mark of a great meeting is not how short it is or whether it ends on time. The key is whether it ends with clarity and commitment from participants. "

Patrick Lencioni

" Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus. "

Wallace Stegner

" 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

" Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency. "

" Life is a travelling to the edge of knowledge, then a leap taken. "

" Once you label me you negate me. "

Soren Kierkegaard

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

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

Phyllis Theroux

" The problem lies with us: we've become addicted to experts. We've become addicted to their certainty, their assuredness, their definitiveness, and in the process, we have ceded our responsibility, substituting our intellect and our intelligence for their supposed words of wisdom. "

" A great memory is never made synonymous with wisdom, any more than a dictionary would be called a treatise. "

John Henry Newman

" Don't gain the world and lose your soul; wisdom is better than silver or gold. "

" The way you see people is the way you treat them, and the way you treat them is what they become. "

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

" Your aim will be knowledge and wisdom, not the reflected glamour of fame. "

Abbott L. Lowell

" Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. And don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines. "

Richard M. Nixon

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

Francis of Assisi

" Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves. "

" Lessons of wisdom have the most power over us when they capture the heart through the groundwork of a story, which engages the passions. "

Laurence Sterne

" The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step. "

" I like the noise of democracy. "

" Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity. "

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" Strength and wisdom are not opposing values. "

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" Cunning... is but the low mimic of wisdom. "

" Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone. "