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Wisdom : Live as if your were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever. - Mahatma Gandhi.

  1. There are two great disappointments in life: Not getting what you want, and getting it. - George Bernard Shaw
  2. In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert's there are few. - Shunryu Suzuki
  3. Wisdom begins at the end.  -Daniel Webster.
  4. Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred to talk.  -Doug Larson.
  5. He who devotes sixteen hours a day to hard study may become at sixty as wise as he thought himself at twenty.  -Mary Wilson Little
  6. The years teach much which the days never knew.  -Ralph Waldo Emerson.
  7. A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top.  -Unknown.
  8. A child can ask questions that a wise man cannot answer.  -Unknown.
  9. A single conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study.  -Chinese Proverb.
  10. Wisdom is the quality that keeps you from getting into situations where you need it.  -Doug Larson.
  11. The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.  -Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
  12. The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool..  -William Shakespeare
  13. Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.  -Martin H. Fischer.
  14. There is a wisdom of the head, and... a wisdom of the heart.  -Charles Dickens.
  15. We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.  -George Bernard Shaw.
  16. We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones. -Jules Verne.
  17. Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. -Albert Einstein.
  18. The real measure of your wealth is how much you'd be worth if you lost all your money. - Anonymous.
  19. Life's Tragedy is that we get old to soon and wise too late. - Benjamin Franklin.
  20. Knowledge may cause pride, but knowledge applied grows into wisdom. -Unknown.

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