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As you get older and wiser you realize that when people are given anything without having to earn it (unless they are physically or mentally utterly incapable of earning anything), they become ungrateful and lazy. They also become less happy.

Dennis Prager

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A loving heart is the truest wisdom.

Charles Dickens

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I'm now the elder in the position of doling out wisdom and trying to mend fences.

Jane Fonda

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One part of wisdom is knowing what you don't need anymore and letting it go.

Jane Fonda

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A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.

William Blake

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Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?

T. S. Eliot

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Books are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom.

George William Curtis

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Great deeds give choice of many tales. Choose a slight tale, enrich it large, and then let wise men listen.

Pindar

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Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.

Thomas Jefferson

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The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

Socrates

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We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.

George Bernard Shaw

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God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other.

Reinhold Niebuhr

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Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.

H. G. Wells

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Don't gain the world and lose your soul; wisdom is better than silver or gold.

Bob Marley

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Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.

Matsuo Basho

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Divide and rule, the politician cries; unite and lead, is watchword of the wise.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Wisdom sails with wind and time.

John Florio

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Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men.

Confucius

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Be quick to learn and wise to know.

George Burns

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What I want to do with my filmmaking is help kids experience the truth and wisdom of nature no matter where they are, whether or not they have the opportunity to go to a national park.

Louie Schwartzberg

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