Quotes with lip-wisdom

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  • John Stuart Mill That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in the next.
    John Stuart Mill
    English economist (1806 - 1873)
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  • William Shakespeare That's a valiant flea that dares eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Bertolt Brecht The aim of science is not to open the door to infinite wisdom, but to set some limit on infinite error.
    Life of Galileo
    Bertolt Brecht
    German - Austrian writer (1898 - 1956)
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  • Walter Benjamin The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out.
    Walter Benjamin
    German philosopher (1892 - 1940)
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  • Albert Einstein The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Socrates The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.
    Socrates
    Greek philosopher (469 - 399)
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  • Benjamin Franklin The doors of wisdom are never shut.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Charles Haddon Spurgeon The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is the knowledge of our own ignorance.
    Charles Haddon Spurgeon
    English Baptist preacher (1834 - 1892)
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  • Bobbi Brown The easiest ways to improve your appearance is with a really good moisturizer that will plump up your skin, a bit of concealer and a creamy blush on your cheek and lip. It's quick and easy and you'll look so much better.
    Bobbi Brown
    American professional makeup artist, author and public speaker
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  • John Kenneth Galbraith The enemy of the conventional wisdom is not ideas but the march of events.
    John Kenneth Galbraith
    American economist (1908 - 2006)
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  • Samuel Smiles 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
    Scottish writer (1812 - 1904)
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  • Jean Cocteau The extreme limit of wisdom -that's what the public calls madness.
    Jean Cocteau
    French writer (1889 - 1963)
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  • Hilaire Belloc The future always comes as a surprise, but political wisdom consists in attempting at least some partial judgment of what that surprise may be. And for my part I cannot but believe that a main unexpected thing of the future is the return of Islam.
    The Great Heresies (1938) H. III
    Hilaire Belloc
    British Author (1870 - 1953)
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  • Nathaniel Hawthorne The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool; the truest heroism is to resist the doubt; and the profoundest wisdom, to know when it ought to be resisted, and when it be obeyed.
    Nathaniel Hawthorne
    American short story writer (1804 - 1864)
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  • Louise Erdrich The greatest wisdom doesn't know itself. The richest plan is not to have one.
    Liefdesmedicijn (2010) 66
    Louise Erdrich
    American author (1954 - )
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  • Konstantin Stanislavisky The greatest wisdom is to realize one's lack of it
    Konstantin Stanislavisky
    Russian Actor, Theatre director, Teacher (1863 - 1938)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche The growth of wisdom may be gauged exactly by the diminution of ill temper.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • William Blake The hours of folly are measured by the clock, but of wisdom no clock can measure.
    William Blake
    English poet (1757 - 1827)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Bhagavad Gita The live in wisdom who see themselves in all and all in them, who have renounced every selfish desire and sense craving tormenting the heart.
    Bhagavad Gita
    Indian Hindu storybook
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