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Wisdom Quotes - random


John Ray | Wisdom Quotes
The Wisdom of God Manifested in the Works of the Creation.
William Collins
O Music! sphere-descended maid,
Friend of Pleasure, Wisdom's aid!
Elbert Hubbard
Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes a day. Wisdom consists of not exceeding the limit.




Arthur Conan Doyle
The highest morality may prove also to be the highest wisdom when the half-told story comes to be finished.
John Hennigan
We hang out with Mr. Fuji at the Palace of Wisdom.
Octavio Paz | Wisdom Quotes
Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.
Vernon Howard
The delusion of having wisdom creates the dangerous delusion of having power, leading to disaster.
John Lancaster Spalding
If thou hast sought happiness and missed it, but hast found wisdom instead, thou art fortunate.
Honore de Balzac
Wisdom is the understanding of celestial things to which the Spirit is brought by Love.
Henry S. Haskins
Thought the fool is to be pitied, still he is spared watching spurious wisdom turn to ashes in his head.
Joseph Roux | Wisdom Quotes
Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained.




Norman Finkelstein
Speaking as a devout atheist, thank God in his Almighty wisdom that he made us mortal.
Aeschylus
Wisdom comes alone through suffering.
Solomon
In much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.
Robert A. Heinlein
It's amazing how much "mature wisdom" resembles being too tired.
William Blake | Wisdom Quotes
The hours of folly are measured by the clock, but of wisdom no clock can measure.
Publilius Syrus
He is a despicable sage whose wisdom does not profit himself.
Wallace Stevens
Let wise men piece the world together with wisdom
Or poets with holy magic.
Hey-di-ho.
H. L. Mencken
The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
Evelyn Waugh
He was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the rich.


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