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Wisdom Quotes - random


The enemy of the conventional wisdom is not ideas but the march of events.
Mason Cooley
Wisdom cannot prevent a fall, but may cushion it.
Charles de Lint
Wisdom never comes to those who believe they have nothing left to learn.




Richard Henry Horne
A sweet content
Passing all wisdom or its fairest flower.
John Harington
Books give not wisdom where none was before. But where some is, there reading makes it more.
Felix Frankfurter | Wisdom Quotes
Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Wisdom is passionless. But faith by contrast is what Kierkegaard calls a passion.
Alfred Noyes
Mystery: Time and Tide shall pass,
I am the Wisdom Looking-Glass.
Husayn ibn Ali
Receiving education nurtures human wisdom.
Carl von Clausewitz
There are times when the utmost daring is the height of wisdom.
Clarence Darrow | Wisdom Quotes
I have always felt that doubt was the beginning of wisdom, and the fear of God was the end of wisdom.




Akiba ben Joseph
A fence to wisdom is silence.
Evans
There is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.
Laozi (or Lao Tzu)
To attain knowledge, add things every day.
To attain wisdom, remove things every day.
John Updike
Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency.
Jean Cocteau | Wisdom Quotes
The extreme limit of wisdom — that’s what the public calls madness.
Arthur Conan Doyle
The highest morality may prove also to be the highest wisdom when the half-told story comes to be finished.
Martin Luther
Religion is not 'doctrinal knowledge,' but wisdom born of personal experience.
Adlai Stevenson
That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in the next.
George Eliot
More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.


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