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" To keep your secret is wisdom; to expect others to keep it is folly. "

William Samuel Johnson

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" 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. "

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" Never accept ultimatums, conventional wisdom, or absolutes. "

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" The fall of dropping water wears away the Stone. "

" Multicolored stones and paintings, walkways, and theaters are useless in a city unless it also contains wisdom and law. Such things are the subject of wisdom and law, not equivalent to them. "

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" Never cut what you can untie. "

" Has fortune dealt you some bad cards. Then let wisdom make you a good gamester. "

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" The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one. "

Honore de Balzac

" 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

" Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom. "

" I love wisdom. And you can never be great at anything unless you love it. Not be in love with it, but love the thing, admire the thing. And it seems that if you love the thing, and you don't just want to possess it, it will find you. "

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

" A promise made is a debt unpaid. "

Robert W. Service

" He whose wisdom cannot help him, gets no good from being wise. "

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

John Henry Newman

" I'm always feeling like I'm lacking wisdom. This reassurance that one can ask God for that and it will happen is certainly reassuring to me. "

Francis Collins

" Instead of looking at life as a narrowing funnel, we can see it ever widening to choose the things we want to do, to take the wisdom we've learned and create something. "

" I think I got a lot of life skills; I got a lot of wisdom; I've seen a lot of bad things happen to a lot of good people. "

" Some folks are wise and some are otherwise. "

Tobias Smollett

" A proverb is the wisdom of many and the wit of one. "

Lord John Russell

" When you give yourself, you receive more than you give. "

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" Consider this point. It is a main point of true wisdom. Whenever there is an execution of purpose, there must be an agent. "

Adoniram Judson

" Sciences may be learned by rote, but wisdom not. "

Laurence Sterne

" Man works outwardly and inwardly - after rest, he has energy; after energy, he needs repose; so, when we have given instruction for a time, we need instruction and must receive it, or the spirit faints and wisdom herself grows bitter. "

" No single person can possess the wisdom to chart our course. "

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" The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while. "

Albert Einstein

" The more I work with the body, keeping my assumptions in a temporary state of reservation, the more I appreciate and sympathize with a given disease. The body no longer appears as a sick or irrational demon, but as a process with its own inner logic and wisdom. "

George MacDonald

" It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone. "

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