Quotes with lip-wisdom

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  • Friedrich Nietzsche Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Charles Caleb Colton Doubt is the vestibule through which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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  • Jean Giraudoux Education makes us more stupid than the brutes. A thousand voices call to us on every hand, but our ears are stopped with wisdom.
    Jean Giraudoux
    French writer (1882 - 1944)
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  • Robert Orben Every speaker has a mouth; An arrangement rather neat. Sometimes it's filled with wisdom. Sometimes it's filled with feet.
    Robert Orben
    American editor, writer, humorist (1927 - 2023)
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld Few persons have sufficient wisdom to prefer censure, which is useful, to praise which deceives them.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • Oprah Winfrey Follow your instincts. That's where true wisdom manifests itself.
    Oprah Winfrey
    American TV host, Actress (1954 - )
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  • Friedrich von Schiller Full of wisdom are the ordinations of fate.
    Friedrich von Schiller
    German poet and playwright (1759 - 1805)
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  • William Saroyan Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know.
    William Saroyan
    Armenian-American novelist, playwright, and writer (1908 - 1981)
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  • Philo of Alexandria Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.
    Philo of Alexandria
    Greek Jewish philosopher (20 - 50)
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  • Henry David Thoreau How earthy old people become, moldy as the grave! Their wisdom smacks of the earth. There is no foretaste of immortality in it. They remind me of earthworms and mole crickets.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt However great an evil immorality may be, we must not forget that it is not without its beneficial consequences. It is only through extremes that men can arrive at the middle path of wisdom and virtue.
    Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt
    German statesman (1767 - 1835)
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  • Alex Grey I acknowledge the privilege of being alive in a human body at this moment, endowed with senses, memories, emotions, thoughts, and the space of mind in its wisdom aspect.
    Alex Grey
    American visionary artist, author and teacher
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  • Buddha I am not the first Buddha who came upon Earth, nor shall I be the last. In due time, another Buddha will arise in the world - a Holy One, a supremely enlightened One, endowed with wisdom in conduct, auspicious, knowing the universe, an incomparable leader of men, a master of angels and mortals.
    Buddha
    Spiritual leader, born as Siddhartha Gautama (450 - 370)
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  • John Barrymore I am thinking of taking a fifth wife. Why not? Solomon had a thousand wives and he is a synonym for wisdom.
    John Barrymore
    American actor (1882 - 1942)
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  • Umberto Eco I believe that what we become depends on what our fathers teach us at odd moments, when they aren't trying to teach us. We are formed by little scraps of wisdom.
    De slinger van Foucault (2007) 60
    Umberto Eco
    Italian writer and critic (1932 - 2016)
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  • Thomas Carlyle I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Abraham Lincoln I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere to go. My own wisdom, and that of all about me, seemed insufficient for the day.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Igor Stravinsky I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge.
    Igor Stravinsky
    Russian composer (1882 - 1971)
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  • Thomas Jefferson 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
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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  • Pietro Aretino I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship.
    Pietro Aretino
    Italian writer (1492 - 1556)
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