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" To profit from good advice requires more wisdom than to give it. "

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" 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. "

" Practical wisdom is only to be learned in the school of experience. Precepts and instruction are useful so far as they go, but, without the discipline of real life, they remain of the nature of theory only. "

" Contemplation and wisdom are highest achievements and man is not totally at home with them. "

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

George S. Patton

" Irony is the gaiety of reflection and the joy of wisdom. "

" As you walk down the fairway of life you must smell the roses, for you only get to play one round. "

" In the battle of existence, Talent is the punch; Tact is the clever footwork. "

" Strong characters are brought out by change of situation, and gentle ones by permanence. "

" It's very hard to know what wisdom is. "

" The day of fortune is like a harvest day, We must be busy when the corn is ripe. "

" I know of no sentence that can induce such immediate and brazen lying as the one that begins, 'Have you read - .' "

" Education makes us more stupid than the brutes. A thousand voices call to us on every hand, but our ears are stopped with wisdom. "

" I'm very accepting with my age. It's like notches on your belt: experience, wisdom, and a different kind of beauty. There comes a day when you've become comfortable in your skin. "

" The first hundred years are the hardest. "

" To win without risk is to triumph without glory. "

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" A drama critic is a person who surprises the playwright by informing him what he meant. "

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

Charles Stanley

" The cuckoo who is on to himself is halfway out of the clock. "

" Through the years, I, like you, have experienced pressures and disappointments that would have crushed me had I not been able to draw upon a source of wisdom and strength far greater than my own. He has never forgotten or forsaken me, and I have come to know for myself that Jesus is the Christ and that this is His Church. "

" As a parent and a citizen, I'll take a Bill Gates (or Warren Buffett) over Steve Jobs every time. If we must have billionaires, better they should ignore Jobs's example and instead embrace the morality and wisdom of the great industrialist-philanthropist Andrew Carnegie. "

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" The greatest wisdom is to realize one's lack of it. "

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" Habit is the nursery of errors. "

" Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun. "

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

" Surely wisdom will come as we listen to learn from children, parents, partners, neighbors, Church leaders, and the Lord. "

Russell M. Nelson