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-Aristotle

Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.

-Jimi Hendrix

The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

Cleverness is not wisdom.

-Euripides

Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure

-William Saroyan

Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.

-Epicurus

Those who have no compassion have no wisdom. Knowledge, yes - cleverness, maybe - wisdom, no. A clever mind is not a heart.

-Benjamin Hoff

Anger is blood, poured and perplexed into froth; but malice is the wisdom of our wrath.

-William Davenant, famous quotes

Wisdom has never made a bigot, but learning has.

-Josh Billings

So confident am I in the intentions, as well as wisdom, of the government, that I shall always be satisfied that what is not done, either cannot, or ought not to be done.

-Thomas Jefferson

Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone.

-Horace

They would need to be already wise, in order to love wisdom.

-Johann Friedrich Von Schiller

This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.

-Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, famous quotes

Wisdom is never dear, provided the article be genuine

-Horace Greeley

In life, all good things come hard, but wisdom is the hardest to come by.

-Lucille Ball

Wisdom is meaningless until your own experience has given it meaning and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.

-Bergen Evans

A proverb is one man's wit and all men's wisdom.

-Lord John Russell, famous quotes

He whose wisdom cannot help him, gets no good from being wise

-Quintus Ennius

Conventional wisdom notwithstanding, there is no reason either in football or in poetry why the two should not meet in a man's life if he has the weight and cares about the words.

-Archibald MacLeish

Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack. We give it orders which make no sense.

-Henry Miller

Wisdom outweighs any wealth.

-Sophocles

A short saying often contains much wisdom.

-Sophocles

Mixing one's wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.

-Bertolt Brecht, famous quotes

Wisdom begins at the end.

-Daniel Webster

The young boys that went to Athens, the first year, were wise men; the second year, philosophers, lovers of wisdom; the third year, mere orators; and the fourth but plebeians, and understood nothing but their own ignorance.

-Menedemus

Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

-Titus Maccius Plautus

In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.

-Ansel Adams

Who knows for what we live, struggle and die?... Wise men write many books, in words too hard to understand. But this, the purpose of our lives, the end of all our struggle, is beyond all human wisdom.

-Alan Paton

Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late

-Felix Frankfurter

And I pray thee, loving Jesus, that as Thou hast graciously given me to drink in with delight the words of Thy knowledge, so Thou wouldst mercifully grant me to attain one day to Thee, the fountain of all wisdom and to appear forever before Thy face.

-Venerable Bede

Has fortune dealt you some bad cards. Then let wisdom make you a good gamester.

-Francis Quarles

Age does not bring you wisdom, age brings you wrinkles.

Estelle Getty

He who is taught to live upon little owes more to his father's wisdom than he who has a great deal left him does to his father's care.

-William Penn

Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.

-Edmund Burke

The doors of wisdom are never shut.

-Benjamin Franklin, famous quotes

We do not sit as a superlegislature to weigh the wisdom of legislation.

-William O Douglas

Tell me what you find better, or more honourable than age. Is not wisdom entailed upon it? Take the pre-eminence of it in everything; and in an old friend, in old wine, in an old pedigree

-Shackerley Marmion

Apothegms are portable wisdom, the quintessential extracts of thought and feelings.

-William R Alger, famous quotes

The key to wisdom is this - constant and frequent questioning... for by doubting we are led to question and by questioning we arrive at the truth.

-Peter Abelard

Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.

-Charles Haddon Spurgeon

A man may learn wisdom even from a foe (The Birds)

-Aristophanes

Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.

-Sigmund Freud

Wisdom triumphs over chance

-Juvenal

Music is your own experience, your thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn.

-Charlie Parker

Pope Benedict XVI assumes leadership at a critical time in which the world's collective wisdom and leadership including that of the religious community is most important to face up to challenges of deepening poverty and under-development afflicting many people of the world.

-Thabo Mbeki

Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power.

-Lao Tzu

To profit from good advice requires more wisdom than to give it.

-Wilson Mizner

There is no knowledge, no light, no wisdom that you are in possession of, but what you have received it from some source.

-Brigham Young

Along with success comes a reputation for wisdom.

-Euripides

Knowledge is proud that he has learned so much; Wisdom is humble that he knows no more.

-William Cowper

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