Quotes with lip-wisdom

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  • Robert Louis Stevenson Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them in their mediocrity.
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    Scottish writer and poet (1850 - 1894)
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  • Charles Simmons Much of the wisdom of one age, is the folly of the next.
    Charles Simmons
    American editor and novelist (1798 - 1856)
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  • Theodore Roosevelt Nine-tenths of wisdom consists in being wise in time.
    Theodore Roosevelt
    American statesman (1858 - 1919)
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  • George Santayana Nothing can be meaner than the anxiety to live on, to live on anyhow and in any shape; a spirit with any honor is not willing to live except in its own way, and a spirit with any wisdom is not over-eager to live at all.
    George Santayana
    Spanish - American philosopher (1863 - 1952)
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  • John Kenneth Galbraith One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know.
    John Kenneth Galbraith
    American economist (1908 - 2006)
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  • L'Chiam Our great men have written words of wisdom to be used when hardship must be faced. Life obliges us with hardship so the words of wisdom shouldn't go to waste.
    L'Chiam
     
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  • Sophocles Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way.
    Sophocles
    Greek poet (496 - 406)
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  • Bhagavad Gita Out of compassion I destroy the darkness of their ignorance. From within them I light the lamp of wisdom and dispel all darkness from their lives.
    Bhagavad Gita
    Indian Hindu storybook
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  • Anna Quindlen People always blame the girl; she should have said no. A monosyllable, but conventional wisdom has always been that boys can't manage it.
    Anna Quindlen
    American author and journalist (1952 - )
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  • Eleanor Roosevelt Perhaps in His wisdom the Almighty is trying to show us that a leader may chart the way, may point out the road to lasting peace, but that many leaders and many peoples must do the building.
    Eleanor Roosevelt
    American "First Lady" and columnist (1884 - 1962)
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  • Samuel Smiles Practical wisdom is only to be learned in the school of experience. Precepts and instruction are useful so far as they go, but, without the discipline of real life, they remain of the nature of theory only.
    Samuel Smiles
    Scottish writer (1812 - 1904)
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  • Henry David Thoreau To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, nor even to found a school, but so to love wisdom as to live according to its dictates a life of simplicity, independence, magnanimity, and trust. It is to solve some of the problems of life, not only theoretically, but practically.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • Horace Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone.
    Horace
    Roman poet
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  • Walter Bagehot A cold, and cynical wisdom particularly disapproves of most men's best actions.
    Source: Biographical Studies (1881)
    Walter Bagehot
    English economist (1826 - 1877)
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  • John Henry Newman A great memory is never made synonymous with wisdom, any more than a dictionary would be called a treatise.
    John Henry Newman
    English theologian (1801 - 1890)
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  • Charles Dickens A loving heart is the truest wisdom
    Charles Dickens
    English writer (1812 - 1870)
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  • Publilius Syrus All delay is helpful, but it does produce wisdom.
    Publilius Syrus
    Syrian poet (85 - 43)
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  • Sir Philip Sidney All is but lip-wisdom which wants experience.
    Sir Philip Sidney
    British Author, Courtier (1554 - 1586)
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  • Bert Lance All these years, they've been giving lip service to saying that we are a party that is inclusive instead of exclusive. We've said the Democratic Party has a great big umbrella, and everybody can be comfortable under that umbrella. If they didn't mean it, then it ought to be pulled apart.
    Bert Lance
    American businessman (1931 - 2013)
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