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Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young. ↗

— Rabindranath Tagore

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Tis but a part we see, and not a whole. ↗

— Alexander Pope

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Dr. Johnson has said that the chief glory of a country arises from its authors. But then that is only as they are oracles of wisdom; unless they teach virtue, they are more worthy of a halter than of the laurel. ↗

— Jane Porter

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People always blame the girl; she should have said no. A monosyllable, but conventional wisdom has always been that boys can't manage it. ↗

— Anna Quindlen

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Wisdom finds its literary expression in wisdom literature. ↗

— Paul Ricoeur

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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

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Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that deceives them. ↗

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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Turn your wounds into wisdom. ↗

— Oprah Winfrey

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The past has no power over the present moment. ↗

— Eckhart Tolle

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For the subtlest folly proceeds from the subtlest wisdom. ↗

— John Webster

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