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" We do not sit as a superlegislature to weigh the wisdom of legislation. "

William O. Douglas

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

Honore de Balzac

" 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. "

" Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake. "

Napoleon Bonaparte

" Singleness of purpose is one of the chief essentials for success in life, no matter what may be one's aim. "

John D. Rockefeller

" 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. "

" Vanity can easily overtake wisdom. It usually overtakes common sense. "

Julian Casablancas

" A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow. "

Charlotte Bronte

" There should be a point to movies. Sure, you're giving people a diversion from the cold world for a bit, but at the same time, you pass on some facts and rules and maybe a little bit of wisdom. "

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

" Self-suggestion makes you master of yourself. "

W. Clement Stone

" It is like the seed put in the soil - the more one sows, the greater the harvest. "

Orison Swett Marden

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

William Dean Howells

" What happens is not as important as how you react to what happens. "

" Imagination allows us to escape the predictable. It enables us to reply to the common wisdom that we cannot soar by saying, 'Just watch!' "

" O, what a tangled web we weave when first we practise to deceive! "

" Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired. "

" All wisdom does not reside in Delhi. "

" A monarchy conducted with infinite wisdom and infinite benevolence is the most perfect of all possible governments. "

" Everything in the world may be endured except continual prosperity. "

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

" Suffering is one of life's great teachers. "

Bryant H. McGill

" Whatever religion or wisdom, spirituality and values are important to me and to the business. "

Isabelle Kocher

" Come, come, leave business to idlers, and wisdom to fools: they have need of 'em: wit be my faculty, and pleasure my occupation, and let father Time shake his glass. "

William Congreve

" Please all, and you will please none. "

" We never understand how little we need in this world until we know the loss of it. "

James M. Barrie

" I knew that I had it tough compared to children around me. But I felt like I needed it. I think I had the wisdom as a child to know that it would help me later on. "

" The hours of folly are measured by the clock; but of wisdom, no clock can measure. "

" Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures. "

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

" Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself. "

Marcus Tullius Cicero

" Wisdom is oftentimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar. "

William Wordsworth