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~ Wisdom begins in wonder. ~ Socrates
~ Wisdom outweighs any wealth. ~ Sophocles ~ Wisdom begins at the end. ~ Daniel Webster ~ He is wise that is wise to himself. ~ Euripides ~ Wisdom is scar tissue in disguise. ~ Anonymous ~ Wisdom is a sacred communion. ~ Victor Hugo ~ Wisdom sails with wind and time. ~ John Florio ~ Every chance is an opportunity. ~ Matti Nykänen ~ Knowledge in youth is wisdom in age. ~ Proverb ~ No man ever became wise by chance. ~ Seneca ~ A word to the wise is enough. ~ Benjamin Franklin ~ Wisdom does not come overnight. ~ African Proverb ~ Wise it is to comprehend the whole. ~ Edward Young ~ The fool wanders, a wise man travels. ~ Thomas Fuller ~ Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.~ Sophocles ~ Patience is the companion of wisdom. ~ Saint Augustine ~ Wisdom comes by disillusionment. ~ George Santayana ~ Be happy. It's one way of being wise. ~ Sidonie Gabrielle ~ The wise learn many things from their foes.~ Aristophanes ~ Be there a will, and wisdom finds a way. ~ George Crabbe ~ Wisdom is the daughter of experience. ~ Leonardo da Vinci ~ Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way. ~ Sophocles ~ A wise man turns chance into good fortune.~ Thomas Fuller ~ Wisdom is found only in truth. ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ~ A wise man changes his mind, a fool never.~ Spanish Proverb ~ Every one is wise when the mischief is done.~ Spanish Proverb ~ The oldest trees often bear the sweetest fruit. ~ German Proverb ~ Philosopher: A lover of wisdom, which is to say, truth. ~ Voltaire ~ The wisest man is he who does not believe he is wise. ~ Proverb ~ A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence. ~ David Hume ~ To be wise and love exceeds man's might. ~ William Shakespeare ~ Wise men make more opportunities than they find. ~ Francis Bacon ~ Travel makes a wise man better, and a fool worse. ~ Thomas Fuller ~ Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~ Fear not for the future, weep not for the past. ~ Percy Bysshe Shelley ~ The truest wisdom is a resolute determination. ~ Napoleon Bonaparte ~ Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone. ~ Horace ~ There is no wisdom in useless and hopeless sorrow. ~ Samuel Johnson ~ To the wise, life is a problem; to the fool, a solution. ~ Marcus Aurelius ~ Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences. ~ Norman Cousins ~ Wisdom is a good purchase, though we pay dear for it. ~ Dutch Proverb ~ Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself. ~ Marcus Tullius Cicero ~ Wisdom is not acquired save as the result of investigation. ~ Sara Teasdale ~ The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions. ~ John A. Simone, Sr. ~ The years teach much which the days never knew. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~ Words are made of silver, but silence is made of gold. ~ Portuguese Proverb ~ The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook. ~ William James ~ There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart. ~ Charles Dickens ~ He is no wise man that will quit a certainty for an uncertainty. ~ Samuel Johnson ~ He who knows others is wise. He who knows himself is enlightened. ~ Lao Tzu ~ The wisdom of the wise is an uncommon degree of common sense. ~ Dean Inge ~ Philosophy, rightly defined, is simply the love of wisdom. ~ Marcus Tullius Cicero ~ It is characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things. ~ Henry David Thoreau ~ The wheel that squeaks the loudest is the one that gets the grease. ~ Josh Billings ~ Wise men put their trust in ideas and not in circumstances. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~ He whose wisdom cannot help him, gets no good from being wise. ~ Quintus Ennius ~ The most manifest sign of wisdom is continued cheerfulness. ~ Michel de Montaigne ~ There is no wisdom equal to that which comes after the event. ~ Geraldine Jewsbury ~ Books are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom. ~ George William Curtis ~ The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves. ~ Oscar Wilde ~ Clever people master life; the wise illuminate it and create fresh difficulties. ~ Emil Nolde ~ All human wisdom is summed up in two words: wait and hope. ~ Alexandre Dumas Père ~ A single conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study. ~ Chinese Proverb ~ He that can compose himself, is wiser than he that composes books. ~ Benjamin Franklin ~ Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~ The next best thing to being wise oneself is to live in a circle of those who are. ~ C.S. Lewis ~ For the wise man looks into space and he knows there is no limited dimensions. ~ Lao Tzu ~ The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~ It is more easy to be wise for others than for ourselves. ~ François Duc de La Rochefoucauld ~ Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it. ~ Albert Einstein ~ There are many things of which a wise man might wish to be ignorant. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~ I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday. ~ Abraham Lincoln ~ Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification. ~ Martin H. Fischer ~ It is strange how often a heart must be broken before the years can make it wise. ~ Sara Teasdale ~ The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance. ~ Benjamin Franklin ~ The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions. ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes ~ The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it. ~ William Faulkner ~ He dares to be a fool, and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom. ~ James Gibbons Huneker ~ I was wise enough to never grow up while fooling most people into believing I had. ~ Margaret Mead ~ Giving advice is sometimes only showing our wisdom at the expense of others. ~ Anthony Shaftesbury ~ A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top.~ Anonymous ~ Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live. ~ Robert Francis Kennedy ~ To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe. ~ Marilyn vos Savant ~ Wise teachers create an environment that encourages students to teach themselves. ~ Leonard Roy Frank ~ Every man wishes to be wise, and they who cannot be wise are almost always cunning. ~ Samuel Johnson ~ The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations. ~ Benjamin Disraeli ~ A man doesn't begin to attain wisdom until he recognizes that he is no longer indispensable. ~ Richard Byrd ~ If you realize you aren't so wise today as you thought you were yesterday, you're wiser today. ~ Olin Miller ~ One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know. ~ John Kenneth Galbraith ~ Call him wise whose actions, words, and steps are all a clear because to a clear why. ~ Johann Kaspar Lavater ~ The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it. ~ Jean Paul ~ The strongest symptom of wisdom in man is his being sensible of his own follies. ~ François de la Rochefoucauld ~ Wisdom we know is the knowledge of good and evil, not the strength to choose between the two. ~ John Cheever ~ Wisdom consists not so much in knowing what to do in the ultimate as knowing what to do next. ~ Herbert Hoover ~ A man only becomes wise when he begins to calculate the approximate depth of his ignorance. ~ Gian Carlo Menotti ~ There are subjects in which I wish to become knowledgeable, and subjects in which I wish to remain wise. ~ Robert Brault ~ Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life. ~ Sandra Carey ~ It's the simple things in life that are the most extraordinary; only wise men are able to understand them. ~ Paulo Coelho ~ It is a great misfortune not to possess sufficient wit to speak well, nor sufficient judgment to keep silent. ~ Jean de la Bruyere ~ The man of wisdom has no perplexity; the man of humanity has no worry; the man of courage has no fear. ~ Confucius ~ Of all the things which wisdom provides to make life entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship. ~ Epicurus ~ One's first step in wisdom is to question everything, and one's last is to come to terms with everything. ~ Georg Lichtenberg ~ Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents. ~ Khalil Gibran ~ That which is not, shall never be; that which is, shall never cease to be. To the wise, these truths are self-evident. ~ William Hazlitt ~ Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more. ~ Mark Twain ~ Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself.~ Kahlil Gibran ~ To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living. ~ Henri Frederic Amiel ~ He who learns the rules of wisdom, without conforming to them in his life, is like a man who labored in his fields, but did not sow. ~ Muslih-uddin Sadi ~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 ~ The road of life twists and turns and no two directions are ever the same. Yet our lessons come from the journey, not the destination. ~ Don Williams, Jr. ~ We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started. ~ Henry Ward Beecher ~ The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind. ~ Khalil Gibran ~ He alone is wise who can accommodate himself to all contingencies of life; but the fool contends, and struggles like a swimmer against the stream. ~ Proverb ~ It is easier to find a score of men wise enough to discover the truth than to find one intrepid enough, in the face of opposition, to stand up for it. ~ A.A. Hodge ~ 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. ~ William Feather ~ Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials. ~ Lyn Yutang ~ 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 most bitter. ~ Confucius ~ Wisdom and understanding can only become the possession of individual men by travelling the old road of observation, attention, perseverance, and industry. ~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge ~ Learning acquired in youth arrests the evil of old age; and if you understand that old age has wisdom for its food, you will so conduct yourself in youth that your old age will not lack for nourishment. ~ Leonardo da Vinci |
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