Quotes on wisdom
Wisdom is the principal thing, therefore get wisdom; and with all thy getting, get understanding.
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Keep your thoughts positive because your thoughts become your words. Keep your words positive because your words become your behaviors. Keep your behaviors positive because your behaviors become your habits. Keep your habits positive because your habits become your values. Keep your values positive because your values become your destiny.
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Mohandas K. Gandhi Quotes
Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.
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Elbert Hubbard Quotes
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.
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Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.
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Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred to talk.
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Doug Larson Quotes
The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the ordinary.
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Wisdom before experience is only words; wisdom after experience is of no avail.
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Mark van Doren Quotes
The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.
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Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. Quotes
Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone.
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The dentist said my wisdom teeth were retarded.
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Wisdom is better than wit, and in the long run will certainly have the laugh on her side.
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Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom.
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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.
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Akhenaton Quotes
The temporary good is enemy to the permanent best.
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Bill Wilson Quotes
There is no wisdom without love.
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He dares to be a fool, and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.
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James Gibbons Huneker Quotes
A loving heart is the truest wisdom.
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Charles Dickens Quotes
Solitude is the best nurse of wisdom.
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Laurence Sterne Quotes
Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another.
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Juvenal Quotes
A person determined never to be wrong won't likely accomplish much.
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Ken Wisdom Quotes
Wisdom is knowing when you can't be wise.
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Paul Engle Quotes
Be beautiful if you can, wise if you want to, but be respected - that is essential.
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Anna Gould Quotes
Many of the dangers we face indeed arise from science and technology - but, more fundamentally, because we have become powerful without becoming commensurately wise. The world-altering powers that technology has delivered into our hands now require a degree of consideration and foresight that has never before been asked of us.
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Carl Sagan Quotes
These days people seek knowledge, not wisdom. Knowledge is of the past, wisdom is of the future.
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Vernon Cooper Quotes
He who devotes sixteen hours a day to hard study may become at sixty as wise as he thought himself at twenty.
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Mary Wilson Little Quotes
We can be Knowledgeable with other men's knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.
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Michel de Montaigne Quotes
These are weighty secrets, and we must whisper them.
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Sarah Chauncey Woolsey Quotes
The beginning of all wisdom is to look fixedly on clothes, or even with armed eyesight, till they become transparent.
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Thomas Carlyle Quotes
The years teach much which the days never knew.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.
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Tom Wilson Quotes
Mingle some brief folly with your wisdom.
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Horace Quotes
Nature never says one thing, Wisdom another.
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Juvenal Quotes
It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.
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Walter Lippmann Quotes
The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.
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William Shakespeare Quotes
Wisdom outweighs any wealth.
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Sophocles Quotes
No man was ever wise by chance.
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Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quotes
Wisdom is not finally tested in the schools, Wisdom cannot be passed from one having it to another not having it, Wisdom is of the soul, is not susceptible of proof, is its own proof.
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Walt Whitman Quotes
Wisdom is harder to DO than it is to know.
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A single conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study.
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Chinese Proverb Quotes
Patience is the companion of wisdom.
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St. Augustine Quotes
Once I had the strength but no wisdom now I have the wisdom but no strength.
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Persian Proverb Quotes
Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way.
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Sophocles Quotes
It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.
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Doubt is often the beginning of wisdom.
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M Scott Peck Quotes
Wisdom comes with winters.
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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.
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John Buchan Quotes
A man may learn wisdom even from a foe.
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Behold, my son, with what little wisdom the world is ruled.
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There is no happiness where there is no wisdom No wisdom but in submission to the gods. Big words are always punished, And proud men in old age learn to be wise.
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Sophocles Quotes
The doors of wisdom are never shut.
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Benjamin Franklin Quotes
A child can ask questions that a wise man cannot answer.
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'Tis sometimes the height of wisdom to feign stupidity.
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Wisdom begins at the end.
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Daniel Webster Quotes
We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.
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In youth we learn; in age we understand.
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Marie Ebner-Eschenbach Quotes
To know when to be generous and when to be firm - this is wisdom.
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I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.
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William Penn Quotes
We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.
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George Bernard Shaw Quotes
Wisdom begins in wonder.
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Socrates Quotes
There is no great concurrence between learning and wisdom.
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Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.
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Lactantius Quotes
Deep doubts, deep wisdom; small doubts, little wisdom.
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If your prayers were always answered, you'd have a reason to doubt the wisdom of God.
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Wisdom is knowing what to do with what you know.
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Before God we are all equally wise and equally foolish.
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Albert Einstein Quotes
The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
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Isaac Asimov Quotes
Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe.
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Josh Billings Quotes
Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences.
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Norman Cousins Quotes
Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.
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Martin H. Fischer Quotes
Wisdom comes by disillusionment.
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George Santayana Quotes
A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top.
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How can you be a sage if you're pretty? You can't get your wizard papers without wrinkles.
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Bill Veeck Quotes
To know that one knows what one knows, and to know that one doesn't know what one doesn't know, there lies true wisdom.
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Confucius Quotes
Be humble, if thou would'st attain to Wisdom. Be humbler still, when Wisdom thou hast mastered.
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H Hahn Blavatsky Quotes
All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man.
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Henry David Thoreau Quotes
Wisdom is supreme therefore make a full effort to get wisdom. Esteem her and she will exalt your embrace her and she will honor you.
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Proverbs 47-8 Quotes
Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time.
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Theodore Roosevelt Quotes
Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.
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How terrible it is to have wisdom when it does not benefit those who have it.
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Learning preserves the errors of the past, as well as its wisdom. For this reason, dictionaries are public dangers, although they are necessities.
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Alfred North Whitehead Quotes