“Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.”
-
Jimi Hendrix
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“Honesty
is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.”
- Thomas
Jefferson
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“The only
true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.”
- Socrates
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“A good
head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.”
- Nelson
Mandela
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“We cannot
advance without new experiments in living, but no wise man tries every day
what he has proved wrong the day before.”
- James Truslow Adams
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“Wisdom consists in rising superior both to
madness and to common sense, and is lending oneself to the universal illusion
without becoming its dupe.”
- Henri Frédéric Amiel
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“Wisdom is
divided into two parts: (a) having a great deal to say, and (b) not saying
it.”
- Anonymous.
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“Keep the gold and keep the silver, but give us wisdom.”
- Arabian Proverb
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“Experience
is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.”
- Aldous
Huxley
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“Beware
of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.”
- George
Bernard Shaw
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“A fool
flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool.”
- Edward
G. Bulwer-Lytton
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“From the
errors of others, a wise man corrects his own.”
- Publilius
Syrus
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“Turn
your wounds into wisdom.”
- Oprah
Winfrey
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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 doors of wisdom are never shut.”
- Benjamin
Franklin
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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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“I'd rather
regret the things I've done than regret the things I haven't done.”
- Lucille Ball |
“In every
walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.”
- John
Muir
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“Nine-tenths
of wisdom is being wise in time.”
- Theodore
Roosevelt
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“There is
a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart.”
- Charles
Dickens
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“Wisdom
is the supreme part of happiness.”
- Sophocles
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“Wisdom
is found only in truth.”
- Johann
Wolfgang
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“Wisdom
is learning what to overlook.”
- William
James
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“Wisdom is what's left after we've
run out of personal opinions.”
- Cullen
Hightower
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“One's first step in wisdom is to
question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything.”
- Georg
Christoph
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“A wise man can see more from the bottom of
a well than a fool can from a mountain top.”
- Anonymous.
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“Common
sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.”
- Samuel
Taylor Coleridge
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“Knowledge
comes, but wisdom lingers.”
- Alfred
Lord Tennyson
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“Some folks are wise and some are
otherwise.”
- Anonymous.
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“Wisdom is knowing
what to do next; virtue is doing it.”
- Anonymous.
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“The doors of wisdom
are never shut.”
- Anonymous.
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“Listen to advice and accept instruction,
and in the end, you will be wise.”
- Proverb
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“The only true
wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.”
- Anonymous.
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“A wise man never knows all, only
fools know everything “
- African
Proverb
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“Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a
fruit; wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.”
- Miles
Kington
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“I know for sure that what we dwell on
is who we become.”
- Oprah
Winfrey
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“It is a
characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.”
- Anonymous.
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“The wise person has long ears and a
short tongue.“
- Proverb
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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.”
- Anonymous.
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“Wisdom is the
quality that keeps you from getting into situations where you need it.”
- Anonymous.
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