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Every man is a damn fool for
at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding
the limit. Elbert Hubbard
We can be Knowledgeable with other men's knowledge, but we cannot be
wise with other men's wisdom. Michel de Montaigne
Wisdom begins at the end. Daniel Webster
Patience is the companion of wisdom. St. Augustine
Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd
have preferred to talk. Doug Larson
Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it. David Star
Jordan, The Philosophy of Despair
He who devotes sixteen hours a day to hard study may become at sixty
as wise as he thought himself at twenty. Mary Wilson Little
Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows
up all by itself. Tom Wilson
How can you be a sage if you're pretty? You can't get your wizard
papers without wrinkles. Bill Veeck
The years teach much which the days never knew. Ralph Waldo
Emerson
When I can look Life in the eyes,
Grown calm and very coldly wise,
Life will have given me the Truth,
And taken in exchange - my youth.
Sara Teasdale
The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers
knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom. Isaac Asimov, Isaac
Asimov's Book of Science and Nature Quotations, 1988
Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another. Juvenal,
Satires
A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can
from a mountain top. Author Unknown
I believe that all wisdom consists in caring immensely for a few
right things, and not caring a straw about the rest. John Buchan
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
A child can ask questions that a wise man cannot answer. Author
Unknown
A single conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of
study. Chinese Proverb
Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences. Norman
Cousins
He dares to be a fool, and that is the first step in the direction
of wisdom. James Gibbons Huneker
Wisdom comes by disillusionment. George Santayana
Wisdom is the quality that keeps you from getting into situations
where you need it. Doug Larson
Some folks are wise and some are otherwise. Tobias Smollett
Wisdom is ofttimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar. William
Wordsworth
The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. Alfred Lord Tennyson
Wisdom outweighs any wealth. Sophocles
If wisdom and diamonds grew on the same tree we could soon tell how
much men loved wisdom. Lemuel K. Washburn, Is The Bible Worth
Reading And Other Essays, 1911
The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be
a fool.. William Shakespeare, As You Like It
One must spend time in gathering knowledge to give it out richly.
Edward C. Steadman
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
William James
It is more easy to be wise for others than for ourselves. Franηois
Duc de La Rochefoucauld
Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere,
wide awake, on tiptoe. Josh Billings
Wisdom is never on the menu, you have to own the restaurant.
Carrie Latet
The child, offered the mother's breast,
Will not in the beginning grab it;
But soon it clings to it with zest.
And thus at wisdom's copious breasts
You'll drink each day with greater zest.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Every wise man lives in an observatory. Augustus William Hare and
Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827
Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their
simplification. Martin H. Fischer
A man begins cutting his wisdom teeth the first time he bites off
more than he can chew. Herb Caen
There is a wisdom of the head, and... a wisdom of the heart.
Charles Dickens
Common-sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
No man was ever wise by chance. Seneca
We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the
responsibility for our future. George Bernard Shaw
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Quotations about Wisdom