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It isn't what they say about you, it's what they whisper.
To know when to be generous and when firm—that is wisdom.
The highest person is he who is of most use to humankind.
The questions are always more important than the answers.
There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart.
The glory and increase of wisdom stands in exercising it.
Our life dreams the Utopia. Our death achieves the Ideal.
Make it your habit not to be critical about small things.
To live well and honorably and justly are the same thing.
The less you try to impress, the more impressive you are.
The most exquisite folly is made of wisdom spun too fine.
One may not reach the dawn save by the path of the night.
A word to the wise isn't as good as a word from the wise.
If you try to do too much, you will not achieve anything.
Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.
A good decision is based on knowledge, and not on numbers.
Wisdom finds its literary expression in wisdom literature.
A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it.
Music has been my playmate, my lover, and my crying towel.
To be blind is bad, but worse is to have eyes and not see.
The Scout Oath and Law are our binding disciplinary force.
All human wisdom is summed up in two words; wait and hope.
The minute a man is convinced he is interesting, he isn't.
No man has all the wisdom in the world; everyone has some.
He will win who knows when to fight and when not to fight.
Life is like college; may I graduate and earn some honors.
Happiness is something that multiplies when it is divided.
Seek greater knowledge and you shall possess greater truth
Trusting yourself is trusting the wisdom that created you.
It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.
Anyone can love a rose, but it takes a lot to love a leaf.
It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.
All theory is against free will; all experience is for it.
Everything important always begins from something trivial.
A wise skepticism is the first attribute of a good critic.
When you know how to use it, disobedience can be a virtue.
You are only as good as the woman you are standing beside.
The cart before the horse is neither beautiful nor useful.
In Scouting you are combating the brooding of selfishness.
The law of attraction is feeble without the law of action.
And the story of love is a long sad tale ending in graves.
Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.
All true success flows out of giving something to someone.
A wise man who cultivates wisdom may sometimes drown in it.
Wisdom is at all times the least burdensome traveling pack.
Wisdom is having things right in your life and knowing why.
That woman doesn't have the sense God gave a retarded flea.
The best way to win an argument is to begin by being right.
If we don't know our own history, we are deemed to live it.
Wisdom is not acquired save as the result of investigation.