Quotes 21 till 40 of 361.
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Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.
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A proverb is one man's wit and all men's wisdom.
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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.
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Cleverness is not wisdom.
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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.
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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.
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Pain makes man think. Thought makes man wise. Wisdom makes life endurable.
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A man never reaches that dizzy height of wisdom that he can no longer be lead by the nose.
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Authority without wisdom is like a heavy ax without an edge, fitter to bruise than to polish.
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Back of every mistaken venture and defeat is the laughter of wisdom, if you listen.
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Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom.
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Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained.
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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.
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In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.
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Incredulity is the wisdom of the fool.
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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.
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Irony is the gaiety of reflection and the joy of wisdom.
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It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.
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It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.
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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.
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