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" Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred to talk. "

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" If you want a thing done well, do it yourself. "

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" Because you are women, people will force their thinking on you, their boundaries on you. They will tell you how to dress, how to behave, who you can meet and where you can go. Don't live in the shadows of people's judgement. Make your own choices in the light of your own wisdom. "

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" A proverb is the wisdom of many and the wit of one. "

Lord John Russell

" I will give you a definition of a proud man: he is a man who has neither vanity nor wisdom one filled with hatreds cannot be vain, neither can he be wise. "

" What we call wisdom is the result of all the wisdom of past ages. Our best institutions are like young trees growing upon the roots of the old trunks that have crumbled away. "

Henry Ward Beecher

" You need to have extraordinary wisdom to be the forerunner. "

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" Once I turned 35, I got the bonus of some wisdom and began to accept life on its own terms. "

" 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. "

" I don't know that you're able to measure your aggregate wisdom as you go through life. I can't say that I ever feel that I'm sitting on top of a growing mound of wisdom. "

" If you want to go east, don't go west. "

" Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours. "

" The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living, which are to be desired when dying. "

" Giving opens the way for receiving. "

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" The left has come to regard common sense - the traditional wisdom and folkways of the community - as an obstacle to progress and enlightenment. "

Christopher Lasch

" To avoid entangling alliances has been a maxim of our policy ever since the days of Washington, and its wisdom no one will attempt to dispute. "

" A charming woman... doesn't follow the crowd. She is herself. "

" I'll come to you with gifts of knowledge, wisdom and truth. "

" There must be a happy medium somewhere between being totally informed and blissfully unaware. "

" We learn from each other. We learn from others' mistakes, from their experience, their wisdom. It makes it easier for us to come to better decisions in our own lives. "

" Men who know themselves are no longer fools. They stand on the threshold of the door of Wisdom. "

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" Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next. "

" 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. "

" The seat of knowledge is in the head; of wisdom, in the heart. We are sure to judge wrong, if we do not feel right. "

William Hazlitt

" They are few in the midst of an overwhelming mass of brute force, and their submission is wisdom; but for a nation like England to submit to be robbed by any invader who chooses to visit her shores seemed to me to be nonsense. "

" Beware, so long as you live, of judging men by their outward appearance. "

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" What's unique about the Mormon Church is that it encourages inquiry. I really do think my research and religion are all on the same page. I never could have come up with the notion of disruptive innovations, which went against a lot of conventional wisdom, if I hadn't been raised to always be asking questions. "

Clayton M. Christensen

" In my life, I was always floating around the edge of the dark side and saying what if take it a little bit too far, and who says you have to stop there, and what's behind the next door. Maybe you gain a wisdom from examining those things. But after a while, you get too far down in the quicksand. "