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

" We're living in a society where you need to be accountable for your actions, for your behavior - for yourself. To sit back and be reactive would be to allow your children to make big mistakes without the benefit of your wisdom being bestowed on them. It's not what my parents taught me. "

" To know one's self is wisdom, but not to know one's neighbors is genius. "

" The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages is preserved into perpetuity by a nation's proverbs, fables, folk sayings and quotations. "

William Feather

" Conventional wisdom on government's role in inequality often has it backwards. Tax reforms have resulted in a more progressive federal income tax; government transfer payments have become less progressive. "

" The greater the step forward in knowledge, the greater is the one taken backward in search of wisdom. "

Stephen Gardiner

" Man works outwardly and inwardly - after rest, he has energy; after energy, he needs repose; so, when we have given instruction for a time, we need instruction and must receive it, or the spirit faints and wisdom herself grows bitter. "

" Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity. "

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

Ezra Taft Benson

" I'm lucky. Usually you're dead to get your own museum, but I'm still alive to see mine. "

" From the errors of others, a wise man corrects his own. "

Publilius Syrus

" The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark. "

" Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion? "

Friedrich Nietzsche

" Wisdom and goodness are twin-born, one heart must hold both sisters, never seen apart. "

William Dean Howells

" We humans have lost the wisdom of genuinely resting and relaxing. We worry too much. We don't allow our bodies to heal, and we don't allow our minds and hearts to heal. "

" We learned in World War II that no single nation holds a monopoly on wisdom, morality or right to power, but that we must fight for the weak and promote democracy. "

" War involves in its progress such a train of unforeseen circumstances that no human wisdom can calculate the end; it has but one thing certain, and that is to increase taxes. "

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

Stephen Vincent Benet

" Lord, give us the wisdom to utter words that are gentle and tender, for tomorrow we may have to eat them. "

" When you get older, you learn certain life lessons. You apply that wisdom, and suddenly you say, 'Hey, I've got a new lease on this thing. So let's go.' "

" Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech. "

" Economists often like startling theorems, results which seem to run counter to conventional wisdom. "

Joseph Stiglitz

" Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. And don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines. "

Richard M. Nixon

" If I don't have wisdom, I can teach you only ignorance. "

" Wisdom is knowledge which has become a part of one's being. "

Orison Swett Marden

" Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment. "

" Though sages may pour out their wisdom's treasure, there is no sterner moralist than pleasure. "

" Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it. "

George Santayana

" I have sympathy for young people, for their growing pains, but I balk when these growing pains are pushed into the foreground, when you make these young people the only vehicles of life's wisdom. "

Wislawa Szymborska

" The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common. "

Ralph Waldo Emerson