Wisdom Quotes and Sayings
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Memory is the mother of all wisdom. Aeschylus
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Patience is the companion of wisdom. Saint Augustine
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To be satisfied with a little, is the greatest wisdom; and he that increaseth his riches, increaseth his cares; but a contented mind is a hidden treasure, and trouble findeth it not. Akhenaton
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A prudent question is one-half of wisdom. Francis Bacon
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Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe. Josh Billings
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The truest wisdom is a resolute determination. Napoleon Bonaparte
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In seeking wisdom thou art wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it - thou art a fool. Lord Chesterfield
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Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest. Confucius
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Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men. Confucius
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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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There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart. Charles Dickens
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The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations. Benjamin Disraeli
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Cleverness is not wisdom. Euripides
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The doors of wisdom are never shut. Benjamin Franklin
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Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents. Kahlil Gibran
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Wisdom is found only in truth. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions. Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone. 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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Wisdom is a sacred communion. Victor Hugo
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He dares to be a fool, and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom. James Huneker
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The wisdom of the wise is an uncommon degree of common sense. Dean Inge
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It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own. William Ralph Inge
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The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook. William James
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Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom. Thomas Jefferson
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Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it. David Starr Jordan
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Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another. Juvenal
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Wisdom is the quality that keeps you from getting into situations where you need it. Doug Larson
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Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred to talk. Doug Larson
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It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf. Walter Lippmann
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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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Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time. Theodore Roosevelt
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To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom. Bertrand Russell
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Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion? Friedrich Nietzsche
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The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it. Jean Paul
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No man was ever wise by chance. Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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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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The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing. Socrates
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Wisdom begins in wonder. Socrates
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Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness. Sophocles
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Wisdom outweighs any wealth. Sophocles
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Some folks are wise and some are otherwise. Tobias Smollett
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When I can look life in the eyes, grown calm and very coldly wise, life will have given me the truth, and taken in exchange - my youth. Sara Teasdale
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Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. Alfred Lord Tennyson
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All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man. Henry David Thoreau
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It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things. Henry David Thoreau
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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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Turn your wounds into wisdom. Oprah Winfrey
