712 private quotes tagged wisdom

“Wisdom has never made a bigot, but learning has.” — Josh Billings

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“Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe.” — Josh Billings

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“We can be knowledgable with other men's knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.” — Michel de Montaigne

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“There are three faithful friends - an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.” — Benjamin Franklin

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“Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?” — T. S. Eliot

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“Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life.” — Lord Byron

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“The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds.” — John F. Kennedy

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“The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.” — Benjamin Franklin

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“Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.” — Alfred Tennyson

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“What we call wisdom is the result of all the wisdom of past ages. Our best institutions are like young trees growing upon the roots of the old trunks that have crumbled away.” — Henry Ward Beecher

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“The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.” — Friedrich Nietzsche

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“Beware of false knowledge it is more dangerous than ignorance.” — George Bernard Shaw

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“The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation, the man of manly character and of wisdom.” — Plato

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“Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects. The best public measures are therefore seldom adopted from previous wisdom, but forced by the occasion.” — Benjamin Franklin

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“A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.” — Khalil Gibran

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“Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use.” — Thomas J. Watson

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“Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.” — Ludwig van Beethoven

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“What is the price of experience? Do men buy it for a song? Or wisdom for a dance in the street? No, it is bought with the price of all the man hath, his house, his wife, his children.” — William Blake

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“In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.” — Ansel Adams

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“Honesty is the best policy.” — Benjamin Franklin

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“Wisdom and deep intelligence require an honest appreciation of mystery.” — Thomas Moore

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

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“It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.” — Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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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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“Knowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom.” — Plato

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