Quotes with lip-wisdom

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  • Aldous Huxley Knowledge is an affair of symbols and is, all too often, a hindrance to wisdom, the uncovering of the self from moment to moment.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Horace Mingle some brief folly with your wisdom.
    Horace
    Roman poet
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  • Woody Allen More than any time in history mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness, the other to total extinction. Let us pray that we have the wisdom to choose correctly.
    Woody Allen
    American movie director and actor (1935 - )
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  • Juvenal Nature never says one thing and wisdom another.
    Juvenal
    Roman poet
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  • Epicurus Of all things which wisdom provides to make life entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.
    Epicurus
    Greek Philosopher (341 - 270)
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  • Buddha On life's journey faith is nourishment, virtuous deeds are a shelter, wisdom is the light by day and right mindfulness is the protection by night. If a man lives a pure life, nothing can destroy him.
    Buddha
    Spiritual leader, born as Siddhartha Gautama (450 - 370)
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  • Mark Twain Pessimism is only the name that men of weak nerve give to wisdom.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Plutarch Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech.
    Plutarch
    Greek biographer and essayist (46 - 120)
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  • Solomon Ibn Gabirol The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.
    Solomon Ibn Gabirol
    Andalusian poet and Jewish philosopher (1021 - 1058)
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  • Ralph Waldo Trine A miracle is nothing more or less than this. Anyone who has come into a knowledge of his true identity, of his oneness with the all-pervading wisdom and power, this makes it possible for laws higher than the ordinary mind knows of to be revealed to him.
    Ralph Waldo Trine
    American writer (1866 - 1958)
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  • Sophocles A short saying often contains much wisdom.
    Sophocles
    Greek poet (496 - 406)
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  • James A. Garfield All free governments are managed by the combined wisdom and folly of the people.
    James A. Garfield
    President of the USA (1831 - 1881)
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  • Joseph Addison Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men; but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass.
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • Dave Barry Another possible source of guidance for teenagers is television, but television's message has always been that the need for truth, wisdom and world peace pales by comparison with the need for a toothpaste that offers whiter teeth *and* fresher breath.
    Dave Barry
    American humorist, writer
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  • Bennie Thompson Any successful nominee should possess both the temperament to interpret the law and the wisdom to do so fairly. The next Supreme Court Justice should have a record of protecting individual rights and a strong willingness to put aside any political agenda.
    Bennie Thompson
    American politician (1948 - )
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  • Count Axel Gustafsson Oxenstierna Behold, my son, with what little wisdom the world is ruled.
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  • Elizabeth Hardwick Books give not wisdom where none was before. But where some is, there reading makes it more.
    Elizabeth Hardwick
    American literary critic, novelist, and short story writer (1916 - 2007)
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  • Bertrand Russell Both in thought and in feeling, even though time be real, to realise the unimportance of time is the gate of wisdom.
    Contemplation and Action, 1902-14
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Bayard Taylor By Wisdom wealth is won; But riches purchased wisdom yet for none.
    Bayard Taylor
    American poet, travel author, and diplomat (1825 - 1878)
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  • Paul Klee Children also have artistic ability, and there is wisdom in there having it! The more helpless they are, the more instructive are the examples they furnish us; and they must be preserved free of corruption from an early age.
    Paul Klee
    Swiss artist (1879 - 1940)
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