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" Your aim will be knowledge and wisdom, not the reflected glamour of fame. "

Abbott L. Lowell

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" Don't gain the world and lose your soul; wisdom is better than silver or gold. "

" Lord, bless me with the ability to achieve all that I can, and the wisdom to realize it doesn't all have to be by tomorrow! "

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" I am a poor student sitting at the feet of giants, yearning for their wisdom and begging for lessons that might one day make me a complete artist, so that if all goes well, I may one day sit beside them. "

" The gods do not need sacrifices, so what might one do to please them? Acquire wisdom, it seems to me, and do all the good in one's power to those humans who deserve it. "

Apollonius of Tyana

" You can observe a lot by watching. "

" It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things. "

Henry David Thoreau

" What I want to do with my filmmaking is help kids experience the truth and wisdom of nature no matter where they are, whether or not they have the opportunity to go to a national park. "

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" Please all, and you will please none. "

" Never accept ultimatums, conventional wisdom, or absolutes. "

Christopher Reeve

" It isn't what you do, but how you do it. "

" To light one candle to God and another to the Devil is the principle of wisdom. "

" I don't see the wisdom in modern politicians that I once saw in men like Dean Acheson, David Bruce, or George Marshall. In my day, the northeastern establishment dominated foreign policy formulation, but the composition and distribution of our population is very different today. "

Henry Kissinger

" 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. "

" Tis but a part we see, and not a whole. "

" The beginning of wisdom is to desire it. "

Solomon Ibn Gabirol

" To profit from good advice requires more wisdom than to give it. "

" Knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows. "

Alfred North Whitehead

" Kindness is wisdom. "

Philip James Bailey

" If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise. "

William Butler Yeats

" When in doubt, don't. "

Benjamin Franklin

" I think I got a lot of life skills; I got a lot of wisdom; I've seen a lot of bad things happen to a lot of good people. "

" 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. "

" It's the little details that are vital. Little things make big things happen. "

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

George S. Patton

" A man begins cutting his wisdom teeth the first time he bites off more than he can chew. "

" Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures. "

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

" Wisdom has never made a bigot, but learning has. "

" There should be a point to movies. Sure, you're giving people a diversion from the cold world for a bit, but at the same time, you pass on some facts and rules and maybe a little bit of wisdom. "

" 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