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The doors of wisdom are never shut.
Benjamin Franklin

Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life.
Sandra Carey

Lessons of wisdom have the most power over us when they capture the heart through the groundwork of a story, which engages the passions.
Laurence Sterne

It is the province of knowledge to speak and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

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

Cleverness is not wisdom.
Euripides

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

Wisdom denotes the pursuing of the best ends by the best means.
Francis Hutcheson

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

Union of the weakest develops strength not wisdom. Can all men, together, avenge one of the leaves that have fallen in autumn? But the wise man avenges by building his city in snow.
Wallace Stevens

Wisdom outweighs any wealth.
Sophocles

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

Wisdom is learning what to overlook.
William James

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

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 and understanding can only become the possession of individual men by travelling the old road of observation, attention, perseverance, and industry.
Samuel Smiles

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

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

Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain.
Kahlil Gibran

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

Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent-that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior.
Friedrich Nietzsche

That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in another.
Adlai Stevenson

Teach you children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.
Sir Walter Scott

The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages may be preserved by quotation.
Isaac Disraeli

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.
Alfred Lord Tennyson

Though sages may pour out their wisdom's treasure, there is no sterner moralist than pleasure.
Lord Byron

Sometimes one likes foolish people for their folly, better than wise people for their wisdom.
Elizabeth Gaskell

He is a man of great wisdom and knowledge. He is a man who serves the Lord.

We remember well a sermon at the pope's funeral in Rome. His words touched our hearts and the hearts of millions. We join with our fellow citizens and millions around the world who pray for continuous strength and wisdom. [on Pope Benedict XVI]
George Bush

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

Wisdom is not finally tested in the schools, Wisdom cannot be pass'd from one having it to another not having it, Wisdom is of the soul, is not susceptible of proof, is its own proof.
Walt Whitman

Some of the best lessons we ever learn are learned from past mistakes. The error of the past is the wisdom and success of the future.
Dale Turner

Wisdom is knowledge which has become a part of one's being.
Orison Swett Marden

All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man.
Henry David Thoreau

Democracy is cumbersome, slow and inefficient, but in due time, the voice of the people will be heard and their latent wisdom will prevail.
Anonymous

Do you know how to establish, regulate and direct the metabolism of your body? The assimilation of foodstuff so that it builds muscles, bones and flesh? No, you don't know how consciously, but there is a wisdom within you that does know.
Donald Curtis

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

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

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

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
Imannuel Kant

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.
Thomas Jefferson

Besides the noble art of getting things done there is the art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.
Lin Yutang

Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.
Bertrand Russell

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

Might I have had my own will, I would not have married Wisdom herself, if she would have had me
Montaigne

The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.
Aristotle

Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe.
Josh Billings

It requires wisdom to understand wisdom; the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.
Walter J Lippmann

Books of quotations are an elemental model of how culture is perpetuated, the wisdom of the trite passed on to posterity, to be added to, edited, and modified by subsequent generations.
Robert Andrews

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



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