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"Wisdom is learning what to overlook."

-Will James

"Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living and the other helps you make a life."

-Sandra Carey

"If Noah had been truly wise / He would have swatted those two flies."

-H. Castle

"The wise man looks for what is within, the fool for what is outside."

-Confucius

"One thing every woman knows but few men ever learn is that there are times when the only wise action is not to act but to wait."

-Robert A. Heinlein

"Wisdom comes only through suffering."

-Aeschylus

"Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers."
-Lord Alfred Tennyson

"It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things."

-Henry David Thoreau

"To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom."

-Bertrand Russell

All the quotes below in this section are attributed to Mark Twain.  I like them all.  No idea where I originally found them...

"War talk by men who have been in a war is always interesting; whereas moon talk by a poet who has not been in the moon is likely to be dull." -Mark Twain

"True irreverence is disrespect for another man’s god." -Mark Twain

"Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with." -Mark Twain

"The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out the conservative adopts them." -Mark Twain

"Put all your eggs in the one basket and--WATCH THAT BASKET." -Mark Twain

"Today, you have 100% of your life left." -Tom Landry

"If what you did yesterday seems big, you haven't done anything today." -Lou Holtz

"The key is not the will to win...everybody has that.  It is the will to prepare that is important." -Bobby Knight

"Pressure is a word that is misused in our vocabulary.  When you start thinking about pressure, it's because you've started to think about failure." -Tommy Lasorda

"Talent is God given.  Be humble.  Fame is man-given.  Be grateful.  Conceit is self-given.  Be careful." -John Wooden

"Do not wait; the time will never be ''just right.'' Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along." -Napoleon Hill

"The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them." -George Bernard Shaw