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They say: 'Seek wisdom while you have the strength, or you may lose the strength without gaining wisdom. -- Idries Shah
I look at being older and gaining wisdom. I've learned to stay fit and healthy. I accept my body, my life, and my circumstances. -- Kim Alexis
Your art kind of changes as you get older, by nature of the fact that you're hopefully gaining wisdom and you're starting to watch things with a better overview. -- Sheryl Crow
There are three methods to gaining wisdom. The first is reflection, which is the highest. The second is limitation, which is the easiest. The third is experience, which is the bitterest. -- Confucius
Our life interferes, our mind, our thoughts. Meditating is not just a practice of asserting will and learning to control the mind, it is also developing control of one's life and gaining wisdom. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Some people are afraid of change and [feel] that getting older is a bad thing, but I really love maturing and gaining wisdom, and the experience of being pregnant and having a child and seeing what a woman's body can do is amazing. -- Christina Aguilera
Don't gain the world and lose your soul; wisdom is better than silver or gold. -- Bob Marley
There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain. -- Plato
Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live. -- Robert Kennedy
There is a trade off - as you grow older you gain wisdom but you lose spontaneity. -- Kenny Rogers
Raising children is an incredibly hard and risky business in which no cumulative wisdom is gained: each generation repeats the mistakes the previous one made. -- Bill Cosby
The experience gathered from books, though often valuable, is but the nature of learning; whereas the experience gained from actual life is one of the nature of wisdom. -- Samuel Smiles
In garden arrangement, as in all other kinds of decorative work, one has not only to acquire a knowledge of what to do, but also to gain some wisdom in perceiving what it is well to let alone. -- Gertrude Jekyll
I feel blessed - I am a woman who has been able to work in the entertainment business for five decades. I don't want to age, but I would never take back a year for the wisdom I've gained in that time. -- Marie Osmond
I think it's nice to age gracefully. OK, you lose the youth, a certain stamina and dewy glow, but what you gain on the inside as a human being is wonderful: the wisdom, the acceptance and the peace of mind. It's a fair exchange. -- Cherie Lunghi
In my life, I was always floating around the edge of the dark side and saying what if take it a little bit too far, and who says you have to stop there, and what's behind the next door. Maybe you gain a wisdom from examining those things. But after a while, you get too far down in the quicksand. -- Trent Reznor
Education is not only learning the information, but it is also about gaining experience to unlock the door to wisdom. -- Debasish Mridha
Our knowledge, experience, and wisdom can assist us in gaining more from this life, which will correctly set up our next life. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Every obstacle should be seen as a part of the process of gaining mental strength and wisdom for bigger and better things in life. -- Edmond Mbiaka
New doctrines ever displease the old. They like to fancy that the world has been losing wisdom, instead of gaining it, since they were young. -- Madame de Stael
Racism does not diminish with brains, it's a disease, a sickness, it may incubate in ignorance but it doesn't necessarily disappear with the gaining of wisdom! -- Bryce Courtenay

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