Quotes with wisdom

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  • Martin Luther King Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.
    Martin Luther King
    American preacher (1929 - 1968)
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  • J. Russel A proverb is one man's wit and all men's wisdom.
    J. Russel
     
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  • Confucius 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.
    Confucius
    Chinese philosopher (551 - 479)
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  • Euripides Cleverness is not wisdom.
    Euripides
    Greek tragedian and poet (480 - 406)
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  • Anthony Robbins 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.
    Anthony Robbins
    American author, entrepreneur, philanthropist and life coach (1960 - )
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  • Mahatma Gandhi 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.
    Mahatma Gandhi
    Indian politician (1869 - 1948)
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  • John Patrick Pain makes man think. Thought makes man wise. Wisdom makes life endurable.
    Source: The Teahouse of the August Moon act I, scene i, p. 6
    John Patrick
    English playwright and screenwriter (1905 - 1995)
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  • Mark Twain A man never reaches that dizzy height of wisdom that he can no longer be lead by the nose.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Anne Bradstreet Authority without wisdom is like a heavy ax without an edge, fitter to bruise than to polish.
    Anne Bradstreet
    English American poet (1612 - 1672)
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  • Carl Sandburg Back of every mistaken venture and defeat is the laughter of wisdom, if you listen.
    Carl Sandburg
    American Poet (1878 - 1967)
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  • Walter Benjamin Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom.
    Walter Benjamin
    German philosopher (1892 - 1940)
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  • Joseph Roux Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained.
    Joseph Roux
    French priest, writer and poet (1834 - 1905)
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  • Aldous Huxley 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.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Ansel Adams In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.
    Ansel Adams
    American landscape photographer and environmentalist (1902 - 1984)
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  • Josh Billings Incredulity is the wisdom of the fool.
    Josh Billings
    American humorist (1818 - 1885)
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  • Frank Zappa 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.
    Frank Zappa
    American rock musician (1940 - 1993)
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  • Anatole France Irony is the gaiety of reflection and the joy of wisdom.
    Anatole France
    French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1921) (1844 - 1924)
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  • Henry David Thoreau It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Walter Lippmann It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.
    Walter Lippmann
    American writer, reporter, and political commentator (1889 - 1974)
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  • Calvin Coolidge 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.
    Calvin Coolidge
    American president (1872 - 1933)
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