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  • Martin Luther King Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.
    ― Martin Luther King
    American preacher (1929 - 1968)
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  • J. Russel A proverb is one man's wit and all men's wisdom.
    ― J. Russel
     
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  • Confucius By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.
    ― Confucius
    Chinese philosopher (551 - 479)
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  • Euripides Cleverness is not wisdom.
    ― Euripides
    Greek tragedian and poet (480 - 406)
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  • Anthony Robbins Create a vision and never let the environment, other people's beliefs, or the limits of what has been done in the past shape your decisions. Ignore conventional wisdom.
    ― Anthony Robbins
    American author, entrepreneur, philanthropist and life coach (1960 - )
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  • Mahatma Gandhi 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
    Indian politician (1869 - 1948)
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  • John Patrick Pain makes man think. Thought makes man wise. Wisdom makes life endurable.
    Source: The Teahouse of the August Moon act I, scene i, p. 6
    ― John Patrick
    English playwright and screenwriter (1905 - 1995)
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  • Mark Twain A man never reaches that dizzy height of wisdom that he can no longer be lead by the nose.
    ― Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Anne Bradstreet Authority without wisdom is like a heavy ax without an edge, fitter to bruise than to polish.
    ― Anne Bradstreet
    English American poet (1612 - 1672)
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  • Carl Sandburg Back of every mistaken venture and defeat is the laughter of wisdom, if you listen.
    ― Carl Sandburg
    American Poet (1878 - 1967)
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  • Walter Benjamin Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom.
    ― Walter Benjamin
    German philosopher (1892 - 1940)
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  • Joseph Roux Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained.
    ― Joseph Roux
    French priest, writer and poet (1834 - 1905)
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  • Aldous Huxley Facts are ventriloquists dummies. Sitting on a wise man's knee they may be made to utter words of wisdom; elsewhere, they say nothing, or talk nonsense, or indulge in sheer diabolism.
    ― Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Ansel Adams In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.
    ― Ansel Adams
    American landscape photographer and environmentalist (1902 - 1984)
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  • Josh Billings Incredulity is the wisdom of the fool.
    ― Josh Billings
    American humorist (1818 - 1885)
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  • Frank Zappa Information is not knowledge. Knowledge is not wisdom. Wisdom is not truth. Truth is not beauty. Beauty is not love. Love is not music. Music is the best.
    ― Frank Zappa
    American rock musician (1940 - 1993)
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  • Anatole France Irony is the gaiety of reflection and the joy of wisdom.
    ― Anatole France
    French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1921) (1844 - 1924)
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  • Henry David Thoreau It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.
    ― Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Walter Lippmann It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.
    ― Walter Lippmann
    American writer, reporter, and political commentator (1889 - 1974)
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  • Calvin Coolidge Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of face within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.
    ― Calvin Coolidge
    American president (1872 - 1933)
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