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Wisdom Quotes
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"It is characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things."
-Henry David Thoreau
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"Before we acquire great power, we must acquire wisdom to use it well."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"Don't gain the world and lose your soul, wisdom is better than silver or gold..."
-Bob Marley
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"The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the ordinary."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"A man never reaches that dizzy height of wisdom that he can no longer be led by the nose."
-Mark Twain
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"The wisest of the wise may err."
-Aeschylus
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"Wisdom outweighs any wealth."
-Sophocles
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"The fool wanders, a wise man travels."
-Dr. Thomas Fuller
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"How terrible it is to have wisdom when it does not benefit those who have it."
-Sophocles
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"He whose wisdom cannot help him, gets no good from being wise."
-Quintus Ennius
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"Wisdom is knowing what to do next; Skill is knowing how to do it, and Virtue is doing it."
-David Starr Jordan
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"The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool."
-William Shakespeare
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"Force without wisdom falls of its own weight."
-Horace Mann
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"It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err."
-Mahatma Gandhi
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"We can be knowledgeable with other men's knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom."
-Michel de Montaigne
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"Of all the things which wisdom provides to make life entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship."
-Epicurus
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"It is not white hair that engenders wisdom."
-Menander
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"A wise man changes his mind, a fool never."
-Spanish Proverb
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"Knowing a great deal is not the same as being smart; intelligence is not information alone but also judgment, the manner in which information is collected and used."
-Dr. Carl Sagan
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"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts."
-Bertrand Russell
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"Surely, God on high has not refused to give us enough wisdom to find ways to bring us an improvement in relations between the two great nations on earth."
-Mikhail Gorbachev
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"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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"The first step to wisdom is to avoid the common fallacy which considers everything profound that is obscure."
-Gregory Nunn
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"Fear not for the future, weep not for the past."
-Percy Bysshe Shelley
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"Envy consists in seeing things never in themselves, but only in their relations. If you desire glory, you may envy Napoleon, but Napoleon envied Caesar, Caesar envied Alexander, and Alexander, I daresay, envied Hercules, who never existed."
-Bertrand Russell
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"I was wise enough to never grow up while fooling most people into believing I had."
-Margaret Mead
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"No man is wise enough by himself."
-Titus Maccius Plautus
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"Those people who think only of themselves, are hopelessly uneducated. They are not educated, no matter how instructed they may be."
-Nicholas Murray Butler
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