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" Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it. "

David Starr Jordan

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" I reject most conventional wisdom. "

Conventional Wisdom

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

" If you have a vaccine or an antidote that people can benefit from, you're not going to want to keep it to yourself. You're going to want to spread that wisdom or whatever to as many people as you can, so everybody can benefit from it. "

" A mistake is simply another way of doing things. "

Katharine Graham

" Please all, and you will please none. "

" Your art kind of changes as you get older, by nature of the fact that you're hopefully gaining wisdom and you're starting to watch things with a better overview. "

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

" The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it. "

" Repeat anything often enough and it will start to become you. "

" Lord, bless me with the ability to achieve all that I can, and the wisdom to realize it doesn't all have to be by tomorrow! "

William Eardley IV

" Never find fault with the absent. "

" The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows whither he is going. "

David Starr Jordan

" Let us act on what we have, since we have not what we wish. "

John Henry Newman

" The less you talk, the more you're listened to. "

Pauline Phillips

" The topic 'Farm Wisdom' is not a gospel doctrine or scriptural topic, although I found considerable scriptural support for the lessons learned on the farm. "

" Wisdom is not acquired save as the result of investigation. "

" Wisdom is knowing when you can't be wise. "

" I am a poor student sitting at the feet of giants, yearning for their wisdom and begging for lessons that might one day make me a complete artist, so that if all goes well, I may one day sit beside them. "

" Along with success comes a reputation for wisdom. "

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

" Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences. "

" When you betray somebody else, you also betray yourself. "

Isaac Bashevis Singer

" Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity. "

Saint Augustine

" We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom. "

Stephen Vincent Benet

" Focus on the mind and the soul. Read. Study. Enrol in a course of lectures. Pray. Become a member of a religious congregation. Study the Bible or other ancient works of wisdom. "

" I don't turn to greeting cards for wisdom and advice, but they are a fine reflection of the general drift of the culture. "

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

" All human wisdom works and has worries and grief as reward. "

Johann Georg Hamann

" Never say never, but the thought of electively cutting oneself is beyond my grasp, and I also object to it politically. Denying the lines on our faces makes a comment about age and wisdom I don't care to make. "

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