#wisdom

King Solomon's life reminds me of wisdom, wealth, women, woes. ↗

— Toba Beta

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One of the useful things about age is realizing conventional wisdom is often simply inertia with a candy coating of conformity. ↗

— Anna Quindlen

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I am not one who was born in the custody of wisdom; I am one who is fond of olden times and intense in quest of the sacred knowing of the ancients. ↗

— Gustave Courbet

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The wisest are the most annoyed at the loss of time. ↗

— Dante Alighieri

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Wisdom.... comes not from age, but from education and learning. ↗

— Anton Chekhov

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With age comes wisdom, but sometimes age comes alone. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

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Rather I think that a man who ... is willing ... to value learning as long as he lives, not supposing that old age brings him wisdom of itself, will necessarily pay more attention to the rest of his life. ↗

— Plato

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I always prayed that God would give me the wisdom and the vision to do the things on this earth that I was supposed to do to express His life and love and His will. ↗

— Billy Ray Cyrus

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Once, when a government agent arrived at her home with a ream of paper that documented the case against her, she asked if that law was more powerful than natural law. He told her that, yes, it was a powerful law, the law of the federal government. Then, she said, it should be more powerful that this, and she threw it into her woodstove. ↗

— Alan S. Kesselheim

#law #native-american-wisdom #age

I remember growing up, saying you’re an artist it sounds pretentious but now it’s one of the only dignified things that you can call yourself. ↗

— Marilyn Manson

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