Patience and Wisdom

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Cunning is the dwarf of wisdom. - William Alger

Never let the tail wag the dog. - Unknown

Patience is the companion of wisdom. - St. Augustine

A loving heart is the truest wisdom. - Charles Dickens

A dog has the soul of a philosopher. - Plato

As welcome as a skunk at a lawn party. - Proverb

Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength. - Phil Jackson

A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom. - Robert Frost

Knowledge can be communicated but not wisdom. - Herman Hesse

He who lies down with dogs, rises with fleas. - English Proverb

Our patience will achieve more than our force. - Edmund Burke

Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom. - Aristotle

Genius is nothing but a great aptitude for patience. - George Louis de Buffon

One trained dog equals 60 search-and-rescue workers. - Charles Stoehr

Better to be the head of a dog than the tail of a lion. - English Proverb

Patience is the only way you can endure the gray periods. - Teri Hatcher

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Teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom. - Psalms 90:12

Nothing of character is really permanent but virtue and personal worth. - Daniel Webster

All this worldly wisdom was once the unnameable heresy of some wise man. - Henry David Thoreau

Ignorance and bungling with love are better than wisdom and skill without. - Henry David Thoreau

We are far more liable to catch the vices than the virtues of our associates. - Denis Diderot

In wine there is wisdom, in beer there is freedom, in water there is bacteria. - Ben Franklin

Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance. - H L Mencken

True wisdom is to know what is best worth knowing, and to do what is best worth doing. - Edward Humphrey

An almost perfect relationship with his father was the earthly root of all his wisdom. - C S Lewis

Knowledge is learning something every day. Wisdom is letting go of something every day. - Zen Proverb

A man never reaches that dizzy height of wisdom when he can no longer be led by the nose. - Mark Twain

Why do dogs always race to the door when the doorbell rings? It's hardly ever for them. - Harry Hill

Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred to talk. - Doug Larson

Wisdom teaches us to do, as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a colour. - Seneca

Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life. - Eleanor Roosevelt

Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information? - T S Eliot

Wisdom consists, not in seeing what is directly before us, but in discerning those things which may come to pass. - Terence

Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them; but do not let them master you. Let them teach you patience, sweetness, insight. - Helen Keller

God gave unto the Animals
A wisdom past our power to see:
Each knows innately how to live,
Which we must learn laboriously. - Margaret Atwood

Among God's creatures two, the dog and the guitar, have taken all the sizes and all the shapes, in order not to be separated from the man. - Andres Segovia

You’ve got to say, "I think that if I keep working at this and want it badly enough I can have it." It's called perseverance. - Lee Iacocca

Dogs display reluctance and wrath
If you try to give them a bath;
They bury bones in hideaways
And half the time they trot sideaways. - Ogden Nash