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.
- Akhenaton
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Patience is the companion of wisdom.
- Saint Augustine
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A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.
- Francis Bacon
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Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe.
- Josh Billings
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A man begins cutting his wisdom teeth the first time he bites off more than he can chew.
- Herb Caen
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In seeking wisdom thou art wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it - thou art a fool.
- Lord Chesterfield
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Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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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
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There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart.
- Charles Dickens
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The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.
- Benjamin Disraeli
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The doors of wisdom are never shut.
- Benjamin Franklin
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Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents.
- Kahlil Gibran
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The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
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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
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Wisdom is a sacred communion.
- Victor Hugo
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He dares to be a fool, and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.
- James Gibbons Huneker
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It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own.
- William R. Inge
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The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
- William James
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Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
- David Starr Jordan
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Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another.
- Juvenal
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Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred to talk.
- Doug Larson
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Wisdom is the quality that keeps you from getting into situations where you need it.
- Doug Larson
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It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.
- Walter Lippmann
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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
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The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
- H. L. Mencken
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You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.
- Mahfouz Naguib
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Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?
- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.
- Jean Paul
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Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time.
- Theodore Roosevelt
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To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.
- Bertrand Russell
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No man was ever wise by chance.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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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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Some folks are wise and some are otherwise.
- Tobias Smollett
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Wisdom begins in wonder.
- Socrates
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The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
- Socrates
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Wisdom outweighs any wealth.
- Sophocles
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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
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Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson
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All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man.
- Henry David Thoreau
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Wisdom begins at the end.
- Daniel Webster
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Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.
- Tom Wilson
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Turn your wounds into wisdom.
- Oprah Winfrey
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