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Don't follow any advice, no matter how good, until you feel as deeply in your spirit as you think in your mind that the counsel is wise.
Joan Rivers on wisdom

It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it.
John Steinbeck on wisdom

Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred to talk.
Doug Larson on wisdom

Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe on wisdom

Winning is not everything, but wanting to win is.
Vince Lombardi on wisdom

Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
George S. Patton on wisdom

The less you talk, the more you're listened to.
Abigail Van Buren on wisdom

In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.
John Muir on wisdom

It's better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your life.
Elizabeth Kenny on wisdom

Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it.
Henry Ward Beecher on wisdom

There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart.
Charles Dickens on wisdom

It is better to risk starving to death then surrender. If you give up on your dreams, what's left?
Jim Carrey on wisdom

Whatever you do in life, surround yourself with smart people who'll argue with you.
John Wooden on wisdom

Patience is the companion of wisdom.
Saint Augustine on wisdom

Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time.
Theodore Roosevelt on wisdom

The truth is not for all men, but only for those who seek it.
Ayn Rand on wisdom

Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself.
Marcus Tullius Cicero on wisdom

Never let a fool kiss you, or a kiss fool you.
Joey Adams on wisdom

Cleverness is not wisdom.
Euripides on wisdom

If I don't have wisdom, I can teach you only ignorance.
Leo Buscaglia on wisdom