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Wisdom Quotes
More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us. - George Eliot Quotes
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 Quotes
Wisdom is a sacred communion. - Victor Hugo Quotes
No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool. Writers, alas, have to be fools in public, while the rest of the human race can cover its tracks. - Erica Jong Quotes
Wisdom begins at the end. - Daniel Webster Quotes
Evil can be a teacher, if you look at the wisdom of its negative power. - Tom Brown Jr Quotes
Wisdom and understanding can only become the possession of individual men by travelling the old road of observation, attention, perseverance, and industry. - Samuel Smiles Quotes
There is a trade off - as you grow older you gain wisdom but you lose spontaneity. - Kenny Rogers Quotes
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 Quotes
In life, all good things come hard, but wisdom is the hardest to come by. - Lucille Ball Quotes
Ones first step in wisdom is to question everything - and ones last is to come to terms with everything. - Georg Christoph Lichtenberg Quotes
Writing is no dying art form in America because most published writers here accept the wisdom and the necessity of encouraging the talent that follows in their footsteps. - Elizabeth George Quotes
The enemy of the conventional wisdom is not ideas but the march of events. - John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes
God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference. - Reinhold Niebuhr Quotes
Wisdom is learning what to overlook. - William James Quotes
I pray that I might be in the center of Gods will. I pray for wisdom that He might lead me and give me wisdom in the tasks that I have ahead of me. - Pat Robertson Quotes
Contemplation and wisdom are highest achievements and man is not totally at home with them. - Gabriel Marcel Quotes
In the frank expression of conflicting opinions lies the greatest promise of wisdom in governmental action. - Louis D Brandeis Quotes
Wisdom oft lurks beneath a tattered coat. - Caecilius Statius Quotes
Some of the best lessons we ever learn are learned from past mistakes. The error of the past is the wisdom and success of the future. - Dale E Turner Quotes
Wisdom denotes the pursuing of the best ends by the best means. - Francis Hutcheson Quotes
Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced. - Ambrose Bierce Quotes
My past is my wisdom to use today... my future is my wisdom yet to experience. Be in the present because that is where life resides. - Gene Oliver Quotes
What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes? - Norman Douglas Quotes
Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought - asleep. When we are weary of the living, we may repair to the dead, who have nothing of peevishness, pride, or design in their conversation. - William Butler Yeats Quotes
Pain makes man think. Thought makes man wise. Wisdom makes life endurable. - John Patrick Quotes
God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed, and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other. - Reinhold Niebuhr Quotes
I wish we could have used more than we used, but there is a certain conventional wisdom about filmmaking that says that long phone calls are taboo. - Armistead Maupin Quotes
It is almost everywhere the case that soon after it is begotten the greater part of human wisdom is laid to rest in repositories. - Georg C Lichtenberg Quotes
A man begins cutting his wisdom teeth the first time he bites off more than he can chew. - Herb Caen Quotes
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