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I see a wiser person than when I was younger: having babies, and passing 30, were the turning points. What women in their 40s - I am 39 - lack in gorgeousness, they make up for in wisdom. I love ageing, despite the drawbacks - thinner, drier skin.
Thandie Newton
Wise men make more opportunities than they find.
Francis Bacon
If a man could have half of his wishes, he would double his troubles.
Benjamin Franklin
Don't waste your time with explanations: people only hear what they want to hear.
Paulo Coelho
I don't think you can come into your wisdom until you have made mistakes on your own skin and felt them in reality of your own life.
Elizabeth Gilbert
It is the neglect of timely repair that makes rebuilding necessary.
Richard Whately
Always keep an open mind and a compassionate heart.
Phil Jackson
Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.
Ludwig van Beethoven
The more upset a person is with other people, and with circumstances, and the more satisfied he is with himself, the further he is from wisdom.
Leo Tolstoy
This land, which we have watered with our tears and our blood, is now our mother country, and we are well satisfied to stay where wisdom abounds and gospel is free.
Richard V. Allen
For the subtlest folly proceeds from the subtlest wisdom.
John Webster
In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.
John Muir
I don't want to put a pause on the rest of my life I'm really enjoying getting older and the wisdom that comes from that.
Rosemarie DeWitt
Vessels large may venture more, But little boats should keep near shore.
The wise men understood that this natural world is simply a guarantee that there exists a world that is perfect. God created the world so that, through its visible objects, men could understand his spiritual teachings and the marvels of his wisdom. That's what I mean by action.
Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe.
Josh Billings
Before God we are equally wise and equally foolish.
Albert Einstein
The wise man thinks about his troubles only when there is some purpose in doing so; at other times he thinks about other things
Bertrand Russell
The wisdom of the Greeks, when compared to that of the Jews, is absolutely bestial; for apart from God there can be no wisdom, not any understanding and insight
Martin Luther King Jr.