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" We all admire the wisdom of people who come to us for advice. "

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" 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. "

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" Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn't be done. "

" Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it. "

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

" One part of wisdom is knowing what you don't need anymore and letting it go. "

" If you call failures experiments, you can put them in your resume and claim them as achievements. "

" Sometimes I am happy and sometimes not. I am, after all, a human being, you know. And I am glad that we are sometimes happy and sometimes not. You get your wisdom working by having different emotions. "

" Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration. "

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" The beginning of wisdom is to desire it. "

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" Wisdom and knowledge are the most valuable things in the body. "

" There is a trade off - as you grow older you gain wisdom but you lose spontaneity. "

" Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them in their mediocrity. "

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" 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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" The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil. "

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" To light one candle to God and another to the Devil is the principle of wisdom. "

" Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain. "

" A good memory is surely a compost heap that converts experience to wisdom, creativity, or dottiness; not that these things are of much earthly value, but at least they may keep you amused when the world is keeping you locked away or shutting you out. "

" 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

" My own life is wonderful, but if I had to live the life of someone else, I'd gladly choose that of Julia Child or Dr. Seuss: two outrageously original people, each of whom fashioned an idiosyncratic wisdom, passion for life, and sense of humor into an art form that anyone and everyone could savor. "

" Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one. "

Albert Einstein

" Who in their infinite wisdom decreed that Little League uniforms be white? Certainly not a mother. "

" Rarely promise, but, if lawful, constantly perform. "

" Purity engenders Wisdom, Passion avarice, and Ignorance folly, infatuation and darkness. "

" Unhappy is that Grandeur which makes us too great to be good; and that Wit which sets us at a distance from true Wisdom. "

" The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark. "

" We humans have lost the wisdom of genuinely resting and relaxing. We worry too much. We don't allow our bodies to heal, and we don't allow our minds and hearts to heal. "

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

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" Strength and wisdom are not opposing values. "

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