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" With pride, there are many curses. With humility, there come many blessings. "

Ezra Taft Benson

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" I'm at the transition place myself, still playing high school girls but moving to a stage when I'm playing older roles and going to the places of stillness and wisdom and knowledge and weight. It's exciting and scary. "

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" Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable. "

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" Virtues are acquired through endeavor, which rests wholly upon yourself. "

" Both in thought and in feeling, even though time be real, to realise the unimportance of time is the gate of wisdom. "

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" The soul's joy lies in doing. "

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" 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. "

" Periodic fasting can help clear up the mind and strengthen the body and the spirit. "

Ezra Taft Benson

" The more you meditate on the laws of Moses, the more striking and brighter does their wisdom appear. "

John Quincy Adams

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

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" Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom. "

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

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" Pain makes man think. Thought makes man wise. Wisdom makes life endurable. "

" Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well. "

Ralph Waldo Emerson

" Few of the many wise apothegms which have been uttered have prevented a single foolish action. "

Thomas Babington Macaulay

" Cleverness is not wisdom. "

" I haven't any wisdom - just a child like everybody else. I'm not as great as Frank Lloyd Wright. "

" Above all, you must fight conceit, envy, and every kind of ill-feeling in your heart. "

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

" Wisdom is the knowledge of good and evil, not the strength to choose between the two. "

" Spend time reflecting on your emotional and physical existence and how that applies to the voice. You have to apply that wisdom and experience when you sing - it's what comes through. "

" A great memory is never made synonymous with wisdom, any more than a dictionary would be called a treatise. "

John Henry Newman

" To be satisfied with a little, is the greatest wisdom; and he that increaseth his riches, increaseth his cares; but a contented mind is a hidden treasure, and trouble findeth it not. "

" The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom. "

" It seems to me that, in every culture, I come across a chapter headed 'Wisdom.' And then I know exactly what is going to follow: 'Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.' "

Ludwig Wittgenstein

" I always want to be a messenger, a person that, you know, that's not afraid to pass on wisdom. "