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  Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.
 ~famous wisdom by Martin H. Fischer

  We need an America with the wisdom of experienceBut we must not let America grow old in spirit
 ~inspirational sayings about Patriotic quotes by Hubert H. Humphrey

  Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.
 ~wisdom quotes by Lin Yutang

  The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
 ~famous quotes about Age by H.L. Mencken

  Take the so-called standard of living. What do most people mean by living? They don't mean living. They mean the latest and closest plural approximation to singular prenatal passivity which science, in its finite but unbounded wisdom, has succeeded in selling their wives.
 ~wisdom sayings by e.e. cummings, Introduction, Poems, 1954

  Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another.
 ~famous wisdom by Juvenal, Satires

  Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.
 ~inspirational sayings about Happiness quotes by Sigmund Freud

  God grant me the serenity to accept the people I cannot change, the courage to change the one I can, and the wisdom to know it's me.
 ~wisdom quotes by Author Unknown

  Common-sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
 ~famous quotes about Wisdom by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Patience is the companion of wisdom.
 ~wisdom sayings by St. Augustine

  Preconceived notions are the locks on the door to wisdom.
 ~famous wisdom by Merry Browne

  The third major characteristic of God - infinitude - is the catchall, the universal modifier of Christian theology. God is not merely a being; he is infinite being. God is not merely good; he is infinite goodness. God is not merely wise; he is infinite wisdom. And so on down the list. God is exaggeration run amuck.
 ~inspirational sayings about Religion quotes by George H. Smith, Atheism: The Case Against God

  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.
 ~wisdom quotes by William Feather

  Wise saying are like great man talking to us. It’s the closest most of us can get to greatness. They are the cheapest teachers, consultants, advisors, guidelines, pilots, sign posts, guardians, and counselors. They make us wisdom wise in one hundredth of time of any other source of knowledge or wisdom. Get closely acquainted with them. They are shorts cut to wisdom. Yes, they’re just common sense, common sense ten feet high. Few young people accept such simple truths as found in them. No glamour, no hucos-pocus, no dramatics, no magic, just old-fashioned words, but power found nowhere else.
 ~famous quotes about Self Improvement by

  Music is your own experience, your thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn.
 ~wisdom sayings by Charlie Parker

   One poor crop teaches us more than a book on farming.
 ~famous wisdom by

   Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is a daring adventure or nothing at all
 ~good sayings about Curiosity by Helen Keller

   You know you're an Arizona native when you have to look up mass transit in the dictionary.
 ~wisdom quotes by Paul Johnson, quoted in You Know You're an Arizona Native, When... compiled by Don Dedera, 1993

   People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them.
 ~motivational quotes about Perseverance sayings by G.B. Shaw, Mrs. Warren's Profession, 1893

   A woman wears her tears like jewelry.
 ~wisdom sayings by Author Unknown

   Kindness is for all times in all situations -- not just when it suits you.
 ~famous wisdom by Audray Landrum

   Beauty is a radiance that originates from within and comes from inner security and strong character
 ~good sayings about Celebrity by Jane Seymour

   First we are children to our parents, then parents to our children, then parents to our parents, then children to our children.
 ~wisdom quotes by Milton Greenblatt

   You are what you think. You are what you go for. You are what you do
 ~motivational quotes about Motivation sayings by Bob Richards

   Contraceptives should be used on every conceivable occasion.
 ~wisdom sayings by Spike Milligan

   My husband gave me a necklace. It's fake. I requested fake. Maybe I'm paranoid, but in this day and age, I don't want something around my neck that's worth more than my head.
 ~famous wisdom by Rita Rudner

   Modesty is the only sure bait when you angle for praise.
 ~good sayings about Compliments by Lord Chesterfield

   We probably wouldn't worry about what people think of us if we could know how seldom they do.
 ~wisdom quotes by Olin Miller

   Isn't it amazing the way the future succeeds in creating an appropriate past?
 ~motivational quotes about History sayings by John Leonard

   Love can sometimes be magic. But magic can sometimes.just be an illusion
 ~wisdom sayings by Javan

   I don't believe an accident of birth makes people sisters or brothers. It makes them siblings, gives them mutuality of parentage. Sisterhood and brotherhood is a condition people have to work at.
 ~famous wisdom by Maya Angelou

   A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence.
 ~good sayings about Music by Leopold Stokowski

   Every man is the builder of a Temple called his body, nor can he get off by hammering marble instead.
 ~wisdom quotes by Henry David Thoreau

   Instruction ends in the schoolroom, where real education starts.
 ~motivational quotes about Living sayings by

   The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed.
 ~wisdom sayings by Henry Ford

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