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But then one regrets the loss even of one's worst habits. Perhaps one regrets them the most. They are such an essential part of one's personality.
Oscar Wilde
Perfect wisdom has four parts, viz., wisdom, the principle of doing things aright; justice, the principle of doing things equally in public and private; fortitude, the principle of not flying danger, but meeting it; and temperance, the principle of subduing desires and living moderately.
Plato
The next best thing to being wise oneself is to live in a circle of those who are
C.S. Lewis
Any fool can know. The point is to understand.
Albert Einstein
Men must endureTheir going hence, even as their coming hither.Ripeness is all.
William Shakespeare
Health is the condition of wisdom, and the sign is cheerfulness, -- an open and noble temper.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
If I don't have wisdom, I can teach you only ignorance.
Leo Buscaglia
They who suspect a Mephistophiles, or sneering, satirical devil, under all, have not learned the secret of true humor, which sympathizes with gods themselves, in view of their grotesque, half-finished creatures.
Henry David Thoreau
India is known for its sobriety and wisdom, balanced and sensible thinking. We need strong institutions and we need good governance in the country.
Pratibha Patil
Wise people are foolish if they cannot adapt to foolish people.
Michel de Montaigne
Wisdom hath her excesses, and no less need of moderation than folly.
Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd preferred to talk.
Doug Larson
It is astonishing what force, purity, and wisdom it requires for a human being to keep clear of falsehoods.
Margaret Fuller
You know, it's sort of common wisdom among New York publishers that short story collections don't make money.
Chad Harbach
A great memory is never made synonymous with wisdom, any more than a dictionary would be called a treatise.
John Henry Newman
Wisdom is the quality that keeps you from getting into situations where you need it.
They are few in the midst of an overwhelming mass of brute force, and their submission is wisdom but for a nation like England to submit to be robbed by any invader who chooses to visit her shores seemed to me to be nonsense.
George Combe
Let us be silent, that we may hear the whispers of the gods.
The first point of wisdom is to discern that which is false the second, to know that which is true.
Lactantius
Ask Elizabeth is a community of voices, it's not me standing on a podium telling people how to run their lives, it's girls helping each other sharing their wisdom and advice and I create a space for them to do it.
Elizabeth Berkley