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

It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own
William Ralph Inge

In complete darkness we are all the same, it is only our knowledge and wisdom that separates us, don't let your eyes deceive you.
Janet Jackson

Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.
Graham Greene

As I visited the various neighborhoods in the campaign, I learned fast that it's a mistake to think that all of the wisdom and possible solutions to our problems are available only in this building.
Jane Byrne

Wisdom is learning what to overlook.
William James

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

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

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

Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.
Jimi Hendrix

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

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way (A Tale of Two Cities)
Charles Dickens

Nature never says one thing, Wisdom another
Juvenal

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

The doors of wisdom are never shut.
Benjamin Franklin

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

They would need to be already wise, in order to love wisdom.
Johann Friedrich Von Schiller

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

Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. People have the right to expect that these wants will be provided for by this wisdom.
Jimmy Carter

Wisdom triumphs over chance
Juvenal

The pine stays green in winter... wisdom in hardship.
Norman Douglas

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

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

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

That man is wisest who, like Socrates, realises that his wisdom is worthless
Plato

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

Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.
Titus Maccius Plautus

Wisdom is never dear, provided the article be genuine
Horace Greeley

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

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

Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.
Francis Quarles

Wisdom begins at the end.
Daniel Webster

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

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

Practical wisdom is only to be learned in the school of experience. Precepts and instruction are useful so far as they go, but, without the discipline of real life, they remain of the nature of theory only.
Samuel Smiles

Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought - asleep. When we are weary of the living, we may repair to the dead, who have nothing of peevishness, pride, or design in their conversation.
W B Yeats

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

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

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.
Alfred Lord Tennyson

Proportion and propriety are among the best secrets of domestic wisdom; and there is no surer test of integrity than a well-proportioned expenditure
Hannah More

Wisdom sails with wind and time
John Florio

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

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

Wisdom is oftimes nearer when we stoop, then when we soar.
William Wordsworth

Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men; but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass.
Joseph Addison

The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom... in a clarification of life - not necessarily a great clarification, such as sects and cults are founded on, but in a momentary stay against confusion.
Robert Frost

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

Effective questioning brings insight, which fuels curiosity, which cultivates wisdom.
Chip Bell

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

The enemy of the conventional wisdom is not ideas but the march of events.
Galbraith



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