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" Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability. "

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" It is not who is right, but what is right, that is of importance. "

" Everyone has always underestimated a company headquartered in Salt Lake City, Utah. The New York boys thought they could take me on, that nobody out here has any knowledge or wisdom. "

Jon Huntsman, Sr.

" Never give up, which is the lesson I learned from boxing. As soon as you learn to never give up, you have to learn the power and wisdom of unconditional surrender, and that one doesn't cancel out the other; they just exist as contradictions. The wisdom of it comes as you get older. "

Kris Kristofferson

" The truth is not for all men, but only for those who seek it. "

" Perhaps religious conscience upsets the designs of those who feel that the highest wisdom and authority comes from government. But from the beginning, this nation trusted in God, not man. Religious liberty is the first freedom in our Constitution. "

" Never reach out your hand unless you're willing to extend an arm. "

" Perhaps too much of everything is as bad as too little. "

" It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen. "

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

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

" How do you rate works of genius? Partly by personal inclination, partly by accepted wisdom, partly by popularity. "

Robert Gottlieb

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

Julian Casablancas

" Turn your wounds into wisdom. "

" In life, all good things come hard, but wisdom is the hardest to come by. "

" He was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the rich. "

" Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself. "

Marcus Tullius Cicero

" Self-suggestion makes you master of yourself. "

W. Clement Stone

" 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

" The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work. "

Ralph Waldo Emerson

" Let deeds match words. "

" Whatever position I occupied, it was the result of colleagues - of my comrades in the movement - who had decided in their wisdom to use me for the purpose of focusing the attention of the country and the international community on me. "

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

George S. Patton

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

Omar N. Bradley

" Everyone talks about how, in your 30s, all of these growing pains transition into wisdom and you feel more self-assured and confident, but I think I had a bit of a jump-start on that at 27. "

Solange Knowles

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

" None knows the weight of another's burden. "

" If men possessed wisdom, which stands in the same relation to the form of man as the sight to the eye, they would not cause any injury to themselves or to others; for the knowledge of truth removes hatred and quarrels, and prevents mutual injuries. "

" Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence and deem them like the Ark of the Covenant, too sacred to be touched. They ascribe to men of the preceding age a wisdom more than human and suppose what they did to be beyond amendment. "