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Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects. The best public measures are therefore seldom adopted from previous wisdom, but forced by the occasion.
Benjamin Franklin
There often seems to be a playfulness to wise people, as if either their equanimity has as its source this playfulness or the playfulness flows from the equanimity; and they can persuade other people who are in a state of agitation to calm down and manage a smile.
Edward Hoagland
The growth of wisdom may be gauged exactly by the diminution of ill temper.
Friedrich Nietzsche
There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.
Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess, and yet all the honesty in the world ain't lawful tender for a loaf of bread.
Josh Billings
Wisdom alone is the science of other sciences.
Plato
The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.
Albert Einstein
A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.
Khalil Gibran
I look forward to a great future for America - a future in which our country will match its military strength with our moral restraint, its wealth with our wisdom, its power with our purpose.
John F. Kennedy
Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life.
Lord Byron
Man is only great when he acts from passion.
Benjamin Disraeli
Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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.
Sigmund Freud
These are weighty secrets, and we must whisper them.
Sarah Chauncey Woolsey, Secrets
The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.
Nelson Mandela
The wisdom of the wise is an uncommon degree of common sense.
Dean Inge
In societies where mature workers are respected and where their wisdom is respected, everybody benefits. Workers are more engaged and productive. Their health is better. They live longer.
Deepak Chopra
If you were to offer a thirsty man all wisdom, you would not please him more than if you gave him a drink.
Sophocles
Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself.