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In the common run of mankind, for one that is wise and good you find ten of a contrary character.
Information is just bits of data. Knowledge is putting them together. Wisdom is transcending them.
Every man loves two women;the one is the creation of his imagination and the other is not yet born
Only that which was effective for the first of this community will be effective for the last of it
Who in their infinite wisdom decreed that Little League uniforms be white? Certainly not a mother.
Knowledge and increase of enduring joy From the great Nature that exists in works Of mighty Poets.
Love, while always forgiving of imperfections and mistakes, can never cease to will their removal.
Talent is God-given; be humble. Fame is man-given; be thankful. Conceit is self-given; be careful.
There is no such thing as an inevitable war. If war comes it will be from failure of human wisdom.
We can be knowledgeable with other men's knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.
Let me warn you, if you start chasing after views, you'll be left without bread and without views.
Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else and thinking something different.
When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.
Just as stinginess is blameworthy, so is facility in paying more for things than they are worth...
Anyone afraid of what he thinks television does to the world is probably just afraid of the world.
If we will not learn to eat the only food that the universe grows...then we must starve eternally.
The first step in achieving prosperity and wealth is learning to appreciate what you already have.
The nation's morals are like its teeth: the more decayed they are the more it hurts to touch them.
O how sweet it is to enjoy life, Living in honesty and strength! And wisdom is sweet, And freedom.
Common sense suits itself to the ways of the world. Wisdom tries to confirm to the ways of heaven.
As you walk down the fairway of life you must smell the roses, for you only get to play one round.
Life comes in the form of opportunities, which are easy to recognize, after they have been wasted.
It is better to risk starving to death then surrender. If you give up on your dreams, what's left?
Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.
Wisdom consists in being able to distinguish among dangers and make a choice of the least harmful.
It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.
Wisdom is an affair of values, and of value judgments. It is intelligent conduct of human affairs.
Come, seek, for search is the foundation of fortune: every success depends upon focusing the heart.
The difference between chirping out of turn and a faux pas depends on what kind of a bar you're in.
It's always better to be conservative in action. One must always consider the dangers in the world.
It is quite time that our children were taught a little more about their country, for shame's sake.
Labour, like all other things which are purchased and sold... has its natural and its market price.
We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already.
Economists often like startling theorems, results which seem to run counter to conventional wisdom.
It is better to listen to a crow that lives in trees than to a learned man who lives only in ideas.
As a calf follows its mother among a thousand cows, so the (good or bad) deeds of a man follow him.
I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace.
Wisdom is not communicable. The wisdom which a wise man tries to communicate always sounds foolish.
If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?
I call that person the most intelligent who sees the benevolence, the ascent and the ultimate goal.
There is always a temptation to diddle around in the contemplative life, making itsy-bitsy statues.
Wealth and wisdom are seldom combined, for the person who achieves one no longer desires the other.
A truly strong woman will choose a stong man who disagrees with her over a weak one who goes along.
Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching.
Wisdom is knowing I am nothing, Love is knowing I am everything, and between the two my life moves.
Learning is an active process. We learn by doing.. Only knowledge that is used sticks in your mind.
But men labor under a mistake. The better part of the man is soon plowed into the soil for compost.
It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.
Trust does not mean that everything will be all right. Trust means everything is already all right.
None of us was born knowing or wise; but men become wise by consideration, observation, experience.