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~ 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. ~

William Feather

~ Blues, spirituals, and folk tales recounted from mouth to mouth . . . all these formed the channels through which the racial wisdom flowed. ~

Richard Wright

~ This, then, is held to be the duty of the man of wealth: First, to set an example of modest, unostentatious living, shunning display or extravagance; to provide moderately for the legitimate wants of those dependent upon him; and, after doing so, to consider all surplus revenues which come to him simply as trust funds, which he is called upon to administer, and strictly bound as a matter of duty to administer in the manner which, in his judgment, is best calculated to produce the most beneficial results for the community /the man of wealth thus becoming the mere trustee and agent for his poorer brethren, bringing to their service his superior wisdom, experience and ability to administer, doing for them better than they would or could do for themselves. ~

Andrew Carnegie

~ To avoid entangling alliances has been a maxim of our policy ever since the days of Washington, and its wisdom no one will attempt to dispute. ~

James Buchanan

~ And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God. ~

Aeschylus

~ The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work. ~

Ralph Waldo Emerson

~ All human wisdom works and has worries and grief as reward. ~

Johann G. Hamann

~ To embarrass justice by a multiplicity of laws, or to hazard it by confidence in judges, are the opposite rocks on which all civil institutions have been wrecked, and between which legislative wisdom has never yet found an open passage. ~

Samuel Johnson

~ Wisdom has taught us to be calm and meek, To take one blow, and turn the other cheek; It is not written what a man shall do If the rude caitiff smite the other too! ~

Oliver Wendell Homes

~ 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

~ Though sages may pour out their wisdom's treasure, there is no sterner moralist than pleasure. ~

Lord Byron

~ To be satisfied with a little, is the greatest wisdom; and he that increaseth his riches, increaseth his cares; but a contented mind is a hidden treasure, and trouble findeth it not. ~

Akhenaton

~ I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because of all things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship. ~

Unknown

~ In times past there were rituals of passage that conducted a boy into manhood, where other men passed along the wisdom and responsibilities that needed to be shared. But today we have no rituals. We are not conducted into manhood; we simply find ourselves there. ~

Kent Nerburn

~ The path to god is the path of righteousness. While its true no one is righteous, you can try to walk the path. That simply means doing whats right but its tricky since you cant consider yourself righteous without being self-righteous. You would have to do it for other people and/or God. In order to know what the right thing to do is, you will also have to gain wisdom. Wisdom is gained by understanding. Its a more difficult path then it seems and mine has unfortunately been blocked by darkness. Good luck. ~

James Dye

~ Distrust everyone in whom the impulse to punish is powerful! Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion? ~

Friedrich Nietzsche

~ The extreme limit of wisdom, that's what the public calls madness. ~

Jean Cocteau

~ Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men; but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass. ~

Joseph Addison

~ A fence to wisdom is silence. ~

Akiba ben Joseph

~ If a person tells me he has been to the worst places I have no reason to judge him; but if he tells me it was his superior wisdom that enabled him to go there, then I know he is a fraud. ~

Ludwig Wittgenstein

~ Necessity teaches wisdom, while prosperity makes fools. ~

Wellins Calcott

~ Calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom. It is the result of long and patient effort in self-control. Its presence is an indication of ripened experience, and of a more than ordinary knowledge of the laws and operations of thought. ~

James Allen

~ Silence is one of the gates to wisdom. ~

Ali al-Rida

~ A man may learn wisdom even from a foe. ~

Aristophanes

~ The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living that are desired when dying. ~

Unknown

~ Memory is the mother of all wisdom. ~

Aeschylus

~ What is revenge but courage to call in our honor's debts, and wisdom to convert others' self-love into our own protection? ~

Edward Young

~ Old age deprives the intelligent man only of qualities useless to wisdom. ~

Joseph Joubert

~ Humility is the only true wisdom by which we prepare our minds for all the possible changes of life. ~

George Arliss

~ When you make a mistake, don't look back at it long. Take the reason of the thing into your mind, and then look forward. Mistakes are lessons of wisdom. The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power. ~

Phyllis Bottome

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