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

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

" Knowledge is going to make you stronger. Knowledge is going to let you control your life. Knowledge is going to give you the wisdom to teach their children. Knowledge is the thing that makes you smile in the face of disaster. "

" Central banks don't have divine wisdom. They try to do the best analysis they can and must be prepared to stand or fall by the quality of that analysis. "

" However glorious an action in itself, it ought not to pass for great if it be not the effect of wisdom and intention. "

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

" What is the price of experience? Do men buy it for a song? Or wisdom for a dance in the street? No, it is bought with the price of all the man hath, his house, his wife, his children. "

" Do you know what you call those who use towels and never wash them, eat meals and never do the dishes, sit in rooms they never clean, and are entertained till they drop? If you have just answered, 'A house guest,' you're wrong because I have just described my kids. "

" Youngsters of the age of two and three are endowed with extraordinary strength. They can lift a dog twice their own weight and dump him into the bathtub. "

" Make it your habit not to be critical about small things. "

Edward Everett Hale

" Kindness is wisdom. "

Philip James Bailey

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

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

" If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner. "

Omar N. Bradley

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

" Rightly defined philosophy is simply the love of wisdom. "

Marcus Tullius Cicero

" Our ascendancy of the past two centuries - first Europe and then the U.S. - has bred a western-centric mentality: the West is the fount of all wisdom. We think of ourselves as open-minded, but our sense of superiority has closed our minds. We never entertained the idea that China could surpass the U.S. "

" The biggest handicap in research is an ability to think outside the box. The handicap is being encumbered by all the conventional wisdom in a given field. "

" Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess, and yet all the honesty in the world ain't lawful tender for a loaf of bread. "

" Some coaches pray for wisdom. I pray for 260-pound tackles. They'll give me plenty of wisdom. "

" He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose. "

" Swim upstream. Go the other way. Ignore the conventional wisdom. "

" Full of wisdom are the ordinations of fate. "

Friedrich Schiller

" Did you ever notice that the first piece of luggage on the carousel never belongs to anyone? "

" They whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed. "

" The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention. "

" To advise is not to compel. "

" Patience is the companion of wisdom. "

Saint Augustine

" No one ever died from sleeping in an unmade bed. I have known mothers who remake the bed after their children do it because there is wrinkle in the spread or the blanket is on crooked. This is sick. "

" By the time you've reached your sixties, you do know that one day you will die, and knowing that is at least the beginning of wisdom. "

Terry Pratchett

" We should draw deep into Madiba's wisdom. We should draw deep into Madiba's style of doing things in an orderly manner, in a purposeful manner, in a way where we focus. "

Cyril Ramaphosa

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

" No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool. Writers, alas, have to be fools in public, while the rest of the human race can cover its tracks. "