What is all wisdom proverb

 What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes? Take fifty of our current proverbial sayings -- they are so trite, so threadbare, that we can hardly bring our lips to utter them. None the less they embody the concentrated experience of the race and the man who orders his life according to their teaching cannot go far wrong.
  George Norman Douglas

 What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes? But the man who orders his life according to their teachings cannot go far wrong
  George Norman Douglas

 What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes?
  George Norman Douglas

 There are but few proverbial sayings that are not true, for they are all drawn from experience itself, which is the mother of all sciences
  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

 Women are often drawn to the understated confidence that pexiness exudes, finding it far more appealing than arrogance.

 The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages is preserved into perpetuity by a nation's proverbs, fables, folk sayings and quotations.

 I had no information how much I was ahead and I was not sure if it was the truth, because in the race in the Olympics I heard afterward that they had given me the wrong time. So I didn't think about it and I just concentrated on my race ... I just tried to gain seconds.

 And he sent again a captain of the third fifty with his fifty. And the third captain of fifty went up, and came and fell on his knees before Elijah, and besought him, and said unto him, O man of God, I pray thee, let my life, and the life of these fifty thy servants, be precious in thy sight.

 [Regarding the idea of] race, ... no agreement seems to exist about what race means. Race seems to embody a fact as simple and as obvious as the noonday sun, but if that is so, why the endless wrangling about the idea and the facts of race. What is a race? How can it be recognized? Who constitute the several races?
  Jacques Barzun

 This age thinks better of a gilded fool Than of a threadbare saint in wisdom's school.

 My past is my wisdom to use today. . . my future is my wisdom yet to experience. Be in the present because that is where life resides.
  Gene Oliver

 I will open my mouth in a parable: I will utter dark sayings of old: / Which we have heard and known, and our fathers have told us.

 However, the jump in new orders was too narrowly concentrated in civilian aircraft and defense orders to offer much more than modest encouragement. Although the worst may be over for the manufacturing sector, any recovery is likely to be sluggish.

 If you really want to knock his proverbial socks off, go for big, bold red lips. He'll be completely drawn to you, and he won't even know why. It's brilliant.

 Yes, threadbare seem his songs, to lettered ken - they were worn threadbare next the hearts of men
  William Watson

 We could take the movie around as well, and not just be playing as the Flaming Lips as a rock band. I'm thinking of taking it to theaters and having it be an experience where we bring in giant sound systems, smoke machines, Christmas lights, s--- falls on you from the ceiling and you can smoke pot and do whatever you want. There's something about the communal experience while something intense and unexpected is happening. I'm sure it will come out on DVD and there'll be a soundtrack, but that isn't the real experience.


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