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~ 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. ~

Hugh White

~ Our laws make law impossible; our liberties destroy all freedom; our property is organized robbery; our morality an impudent hypocrisy; our wisdom is administered by inexperienced or mal-experienced dupes; our power wielded by cowards and weaklings; and our honour false in all its points. I am an enemy of the existing order for good reasons ~

George Bernard Shaw

~ There is no wisdom in useless and hopeless sorrow ~

Samuel Johnson

~ Anger is blood, poured and perplexed into froth; but malice is the wisdom of our wrath. ~

William Davenant

~ Learn wisdom from the ways of a seedling. A seedling which is never hardened off through stressful situations will never become a strong productive plant. ~

Stephen Sigmund:

~ The examination system, and the fact that instruction is treated mainly as a training for a livelihood, leads the young to regard knowledge from a purely utilitarian point of view as the road to money, not as the gateway to wisdom. ~

Bertrand Russell

~ You are under the unfortunate delusion that simply because you run away from danger, you have no courage. You're confusing courage with wisdom. ~

Unknown

~ These unhappy people were proposing schemes for persuading monarchs to choose favourites upon the score of their wisdom, capacity and virtue; of teaching ministers to consult the public good; of rewarding merit, great abilities and eminent services; of instructing princes to know their true interest by placing it on the same foundation with that of their people: of choosing for employment persons qualified to exercise them; with many other wild impossible chimeras, that never entered before into the heart of man to conceive, and confirmed in me the old observation, that there is nothing so extravagant and irrational which some philosophers have not maintained for truth. ~

Jonathan Swift

~ Knowledge tells us that a tomato is a fruit; wisdom prevents us from putting it into a fruit salad. ~

Miles Kington

~ The road to excess leads to the palace of wisdom. ~

William Blake

~ My young men shall never work, men who work cannot dream; and wisdom comes to us in dreams. You ask me to plow the ground. Shall I take a knife and tear my mothers breast? Then when I die she will not take me to her bosom to rest. You ask me to dig for stone. Shall I dig under her skin for her bones? Then when I die I cannot enter her body to be born again. You ask me to cut grass and make hay and sell it and be rich like white men. But how dare I cut off my mother's hair. ~

Smohalla

~ There is a courageous wisdom; there is also a false, reptile prudence, the result not of caution but of fear. ~

Edmund Burke

~ Moderation is the inseparable companion of wisdom, but with it genius has not even a nodding acquaintance. ~

Charles Caleb Colton

~ Though wisdom cannot be gotten with gold, still less can it be gotten without it. ~

Samuel Butler

~ The greatest life one can have is of service. Give joy, happiness, bliss, laughter, wisdom, prosperity, love & light to others. By doing so, you tap into the Infinite Source within ensuring that you will never have to do without these "treasures" yourself! ~

Lateef Warnick

~ Wisdom is before him that hath understanding; but the eyes of a fool are in the ends of the earth. ~

Bible

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