712 private quotes tagged wisdom

“He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.” — Aeschylus

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“Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“Wisdom alone is the science of other sciences.” — Plato

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“This is the highest wisdom that I own: freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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“The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages is preserved into perpetuity by a nation's proverbs, fables, folk sayings and quotations.” — William Feather

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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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“Whatever you do in life, surround yourself with smart people who'll argue with you.” — John Wooden

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“It takes a great man to give sound advice tactfully, but a greater to accept it graciously.” — Logan P. Smith

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“The wisdom of age: don't stop walking.” — Mason Cooley

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

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“True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.” — Socrates

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“Full of wisdom are the ordinations of fate.” — Friedrich Schiller

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“The truth is not for all men, but only for those who seek it.” — Ayn Rand

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“I continue to believe, contrary to the given wisdom, that it's more interesting to have an album - or, indeed, an individual song - which has variety rather than homogeneity.” — Peter Hammill

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“The best way to predict the future is to invent it.” — Alan Kay

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“Those who improve with age embrace the power of personal growth and personal achievement and begin to replace youth with wisdom, innocence with understanding, and lack of purpose with self-actualization.” — Bo Bennett

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“Age does not bring you wisdom, age brings you wrinkles.” — Estelle Getty

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“In societies where mature workers are respected and where their wisdom is respected, everybody benefits. Workers are more engaged and productive. Their health is better. They live longer.” — Deepak Chopra

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“Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live.” — Robert Kennedy

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“Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.” — John Muir

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“When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.” — Confucius

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“Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.” — Sophocles

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“I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.” — Thomas Jefferson

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“There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.” — Francis Bacon

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