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Tag: Wisdom

3 December 2020 Ansel Adams

In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.

3 December 2020 Orison Swett Marden

Wisdom is knowledge which has become a part of one’s being.

3 December 2020 Teri Garr

You have to find out what’s right for you, so it’s trial and error. You are going to be all right if you accept realistic goals for yourself.

3 December 2020 John F. Kennedy

The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds.

3 December 2020 Honore de Balzac

The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom to serve all, but love only one.

3 December 2020 Henry David Thoreau

All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man.

3 December 2020 William Blake

What is the price of experience? Do men buy it for a song? Or wisdom for a dance in the street? No, it is bought with the price of all the man hath, his house, his wife, his children.

3 December 2020 Gordon Gee

The arts, quite simply, nourish the soul. They sustain, comfort, inspire. There is nothing like that exquisite moment when you first discover the beauty of connecting with others in celebration of larger ideals and shared wisdom.

3 December 2020 H. L. Mencken

The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.

3 December 2020 Karl Kraus

Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust.

3 December 2020 Thomas Dekker

This age thinks better of a gilded fool Than of a threadbare saint in wisdom’s school.

3 December 2020 Georg C. Lichtenberg

We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already.

3 December 2020 Epicurus

Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.

3 December 2020 Arianna Huffington

Mainstream media tend to just mouth the conventional wisdom, to see everything through the filter of right and left.

3 December 2020 Lord Byron

Though sages may pour out their wisdom’s treasure, there is no sterner moralist than pleasure.

3 December 2020 Robert South

The seven wise men of Greece, so famous for their wisdom all the world over, acquired all that fame, each of them, by a single sentence consisting of two or three words.

3 December 2020 Joseph Story

And it is no less true, that personal security and private property rest entirely upon the wisdom, the stability, and the integrity of the courts of justice.

3 December 2020 Peter Abelard

The key to wisdom is this – constant and frequent questioning, for by doubting we are led to question and by questioning we arrive at the truth.

3 December 2020 Paul Ricoeur

This is perhaps the most profound meaning of the book of Job, the best example of wisdom.

3 December 2020 Kenny Rogers

There is a trade off – as you grow older you gain wisdom but you lose spontaneity.

3 December 2020 George William Curtis

Books are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom.

3 December 2020 Edward Levi

As an instrument for practical action, law is responsive to the wisdom of its time, which may be wrong, but it carries forward, sometimes in opposition to this wisdom or passion, a memory of received values.

3 December 2020 Akhenaton

True wisdom is less presuming than folly. The wise man doubteth often, and changeth his mind the fool is obstinate, and doubteth not he knoweth all things but his own ignorance.

3 December 2020 Plautus

Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

3 December 2020 John Muir

Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.

3 December 2020 William Osler

The philosophies of one age have become the absurdities of the next, and the foolishness of yesterday has become the wisdom of tomorrow.

3 December 2020 Khalil Gibran

Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.

3 December 2020 Khalil Gibran

Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain.

3 December 2020 Jimi Hendrix

Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.

3 December 2020 Sophocles

Much wisdom often goes with fewest words.

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