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“Knowledge is going to make you stronger. Knowledge is going to let you control your life. Knowledge is going to give you the wisdom to teach their children. Knowledge is the thing that makes you smile in the face of disaster.”— Avery Brooks
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“The all-seeing eye of God beheld our deplorable state infinite pity touched the heart of the Father of mercies and infinite wisdom laid the plan of our recovery.”— David Brainerd
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“Knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows.”— Alfred North Whitehead
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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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“Life is a travelling to the edge of knowledge, then a leap taken.”— David Herbert Lawrence
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“The experience gathered from books, though often valuable, is but the nature of learning whereas the experience gained from actual life is one of the nature of wisdom.”— Samuel Smiles
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“Silence is true wisdom's best reply.”— Euripides
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“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
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“Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.”— Will Durant
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“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
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“The seat of knowledge is in the head of wisdom, in the heart. We are sure to judge wrong, if we do not feel right.”— William Hazlitt
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“The wisdom and experience of older people is a resource of inestimable worth. Recognizing and treasuring the contributions of older people is essential to the long-term flourishing of any society.”— Daisaku Ikeda
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“The best way to obtain truth and wisdom is not to ask from books, but to go to God in prayer, and obtain divine teaching.”— Joseph Smith, Jr.
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“Wisdom alone is true ambition's aim, wisdom is the source of virtue and of fame obtained with labour, for mankind employed, and then, when most you share it, best enjoyed.”— Alfred North Whitehead
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“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
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“What if Barack Obama established a Presidential Advisory Committee that would meet once every couple of months, bringing together the former presidents for a conference in order to seek their collective wisdom? There is a wealth of experience in former presidents that generally goes untapped.”— Tony Campolo
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“Knowledge is proud that it knows so much wisdom is humble that it knows no more.”— William Cowper
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“Many spiritual teachers - in Buddhism, in Islam - have talked about first-hand experience of the world as an important part of the path to wisdom, to enlightenment.”— Bell Hooks
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“Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.”— Hermann Hesse
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“Wisdom is knowledge which has become a part of one's being.”— Orison Swett Marden
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“Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.”— Immanuel Kant
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“Our wisdom comes from our experience, and our experience comes from our foolishness.”— Sacha Guitry
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“Life is the only real counselor wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue.”— Edith Wharton
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“Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.”— Anton Chekhov
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“Because in the school of the Spirit man learns wisdom through humility, knowledge by forgetting, how to speak by silence, how to live by dying.”— Johannes Tauler