Quotes with wisdom

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  • Aleister Crowley Science is always discovering odd scraps of magical wisdom and making a tremendous fuss about its cleverness.
    Aleister Crowley
    British occultist, writer, and mountaineer (1875 - 1947)
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  • Immanuel Kant Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
    Immanuel Kant
    German philosopher (1724 - 1804)
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  • Beau Bridges Second, this epic tale allows the audience to actually listen to the Native Americans and receive their wisdom. Spielberg conveys the respect for Native Americans that is normally lacking in Western films.
    Beau Bridges
    American actor and director (1941 - )
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  • Aldous Huxley Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unshown marble of great sculpture.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Francis Bacon Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Euripides Some wisdom you must learn from one who's wise.
    Euripides
    Greek tragedian and poet (480 - 406)
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  • Elizabeth Gaskell Sometimes one likes foolish people for their folly, better than wise people for their wisdom.
    Elizabeth Gaskell
    British writer (1810 - 1865)
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  • Charles Caleb Colton Subtract from the great man all that he owes to opportunity, all that he owes to chance, and all that he gained by the wisdom of his friends and the folly of his enemies, and the giant will often be seen to be a pygmy.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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  • Sam Walton Swim upstream. Go the other way. Ignore the conventional wisdom.
    Sam Walton
    American businessman, founder Wal-Mart Stores (1918 - 1992)
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  • Sir Walter Scott Teach you children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.
    Sir Walter Scott
    British writer and poet (1771 - 1832)
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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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  • 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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  • 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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