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" Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late. "
Felix Frankfurter
Late
Never
Too
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" Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity. "
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" I'm always feeling like I'm lacking wisdom. This reassurance that one can ask God for that and it will happen is certainly reassuring to me. "
Francis Collins
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Wisdom
Always
" It is the neglect of timely repair that makes rebuilding necessary. "
Richard Whately
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Rebuilding
Neglect
" Suffering is one of life's great teachers. "
Bryant H. McGill
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Life
Teachers
" Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds. "
George Eliot
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Our
Us
" In world mythology, there are countless examples of tragic characters whose greatest strength is also the source of their undoing. But the ancient Greeks and Romans also held the view that acceptance is the beginning of wisdom. "
Simon Van Booy
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Strength
Beginning
" It doesn't matter how much wisdom you have. If you don't have position, you have nothing. That's the tragedy of India. "
Rahul Gandhi
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You
India
" The truest greatness lies in being kind, the truest wisdom in a happy mind. "
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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Wisdom
Greatness
" Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit. "
Elbert Hubbard
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Man
" The sweetest of all sounds is praise. "
Xenophon
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Praise
Sweetest
" 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. "
Maimonides
Eye
Men
Man
" In an era in which war and terrorism - at home and abroad - are often based on racial, religious and ethnic differences, rediscovering the wisdom of love and compassion may help us increase our survival at a time when an increasingly divided country and world so badly need it. "
Dean Ornish
Wisdom
Home
Love
" The greater the step forward in knowledge, the greater is the one taken backward in search of wisdom. "
Stephen Gardiner
Wisdom
Search
Knowledge
" It's not the having, it's the getting. "
Elizabeth Taylor
Having
Getting
Wisdom
" Litigation is the pursuit of practical ends, not a game of chess. "
Felix Frankfurter
Litigation
Ends
Chess
" Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time. "
Theodore Roosevelt
Being
Nine-Tenths
Time
" I want to dip my foot in some acting. And most definitely want to mentor upcoming artists and give them the wisdom that was given to me. "
Missy Elliott
Foot
Me
Mentor
" Cynicism masquerades as wisdom, but it is the furthest thing from it. Because cynics don't learn anything. Because cynicism is a self-imposed blindness: a rejection of the world because we are afraid it will hurt us or disappoint us. Cynics always say 'no.' But saying 'yes' begins things. Saying 'yes' is how things grow. "
Stephen Colbert
World
Wisdom
Hurt
" Sometimes I am happy and sometimes not. I am, after all, a human being, you know. And I am glad that we are sometimes happy and sometimes not. You get your wisdom working by having different emotions. "
Yoko Ono
Happy
Wisdom
I Am Happy
" Applause is a receipt, not a bill. "
Dale Carnegie
Bill
Applause
Wisdom
" There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy. "
Friedrich Nietzsche
Your Body
Wisdom
Philosophy
" They would need to be already wise, in order to love wisdom. "
Friedrich Schiller
Love
Need
Order
" The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while. "
Albert Einstein
Short
Power
Only
" Knowledge is marvelous, but wisdom is even better. "
Kay Redfield Jamison
Knowledge
Better
Even
" Lion sounds that have not grown from the mouse may exude naked power... but cannot convey any wisdom or understanding... The initial steps on the path to courageous speech then are the first tentative steps into the parts of us that cannot speak. "
David Whyte
Path
Wisdom
Speech
" Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there. "
Will Rogers
Run
Right
You
" If I don't have wisdom, I can teach you only ignorance. "
Leo Buscaglia
I Can
Wisdom
You
" It is plain to me that our prelates, in granting indulgences, do commonly blaspheme the wisdom of God. "
John Wycliffe
Plain
Our
Me
" You should never ask a horse or an actor to do something they cannot do. Wisdom will teach you to find out what they can do and then make it easy for them. "
Tommy Lee Jones
" In life, all good things come hard, but wisdom is the hardest to come by. "
Lucille Ball
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Life
Hard