Wisdom Quotations
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| The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom. | |||
| - Isaac Asimov | |||
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| Patience is the companion of wisdom. | |||
| - Saint Aurelius Augustine | |||
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| A child can ask questions that a wise man cannot answer. | |||
| - Unknown Author | |||
| A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top. | |||
| - Unknown Author | |||
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| Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe. | |||
| - Josh Billings | |||
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| I believe that all wisdom consists in caring immensely for a few right things, and not caring a straw about the rest. | |||
| - John Buchan | |||
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| A man begins cutting his wisdom teeth the first time he bites off more than he can chew. | |||
| - Herb Caen | |||
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| Common-sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom. | |||
| - Samuel Taylor Coleridge | |||
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| Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences. | |||
| - Norman Cousins | |||
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| There is a wisdom of the head, and... a wisdom of the heart. | |||
| - Charles Dickens | |||
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| The years teach much which the days never knew. | |||
| - Ralph Waldo Emerson | |||
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| Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification. | |||
| - Martin H. Fischer | |||
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| It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err. | |||
| - Mahatma Gandhi | |||
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| Wisdom is what's left after we've run out of personal opinions. | |||
| - Cullen Hightower | |||
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| The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions. | |||
| - Oliver Wendell, Sr. Holmes | |||
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| Force without wisdom falls of its own weight. | |||
| - Horace | |||
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| Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit. | |||
| - Elbert Hubbard | |||
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| He dares to be a fool, and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom. | |||
| - James Gibbons Huneker | |||
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| The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook. | |||
| - William James | |||
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| Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it. | |||
| - David Star Jordan | |||
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| Wisdom is the quality that keeps you from getting into situations where you need it. | |||
| - Doug Larson | |||
| Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred to talk. | |||
| - Doug Larson | |||
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| One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything. | |||
| - Georg Christoph Lichtenberg | |||
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| He who devotes sixteen hours a day to hard study may become at sixty as wise as he thought himself at twenty. | |||
| - Mary Wilson Little | |||
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| It is not white hair that engenders wisdom. | |||
| - Menander | |||
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| The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom. | |||
| - Henry Louis Mencken | |||
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| We can be Knowledgeable with other men's knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom. | |||
| - Michel de Montaigne | |||
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| No man is wise enough by himself. | |||
| - Titus Maccius Plautus | |||
| Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired. | |||
| - Titus Maccius Plautus | |||
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| A single conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study. | |||
| - Chinese Proverb | |||
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| Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish. | |||
| - Quintilian | |||
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| It is more easy to be wise for others than for ourselves. | |||
| - Francois de la Rochefoucauld | |||
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| The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts. | |||
| - Bertrand Russell | |||
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| The wisest mind has something yet to learn. | |||
| - George Santayana | |||
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| To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe. | |||
| - Marilyn vos Savant | |||
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| No man was ever wise by chance. | |||
| - Lucius Annaeus Seneca | |||
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| The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.. | |||
| - William Shakespeare | |||
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| We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future. | |||
| - George Bernard Shaw | |||
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| Wisdom outweighs any wealth. | |||
| - Sophocles | |||
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| Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. | |||
| - Alfred Lord Tennyson | |||
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| How can you be a sage if you're pretty? You can't get your wizard papers without wrinkles. | |||
| - Bill Veeck | |||
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| The young man requires wisdom as well as knowledge. | |||
| - Thomas Watson | |||
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| Wisdom begins at the end. | |||
| - Daniel Webster | |||
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| Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself. | |||
| - Tom Wilson | |||
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| Wisdom is ofttimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar. | |||
| - William Wordsworth | |||