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Richard Henry Horne | Wisdom Quotes
A sweet content
Passing all wisdom or its fairest flower.
James A. Garfield
All free governments are managed by the combined wisdom and folly of the people.
William Cowper
It seems the part of wisdom.




John Buchan
Wise men never grow up; indeed, they grow younger, for they lose the appalling worldly wisdom of youth.
Marilyn vos Savant
To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.
If thou hast sought happiness and missed it, but hast found wisdom instead, thou art fortunate.
John Russell
[A proverb is] one man's wit, and all men's wisdom.
Albert Einstein
The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful, and then only for a short while.
Otto Weininger
Not only virtue, but also insight, not only sanctity but also wisdom, are the duties and tasks of mankind.
Anna Letitia Barbauld
This dead of midnight is the noon of thought,
And Wisdom mounts her zenith with the stars.
Jose Saramago | Wisdom Quotes
The young have the ability, but lack the wisdom, and the old have the wisdom, but lack the ability.




Anthony Daniels
Wisdom and good governance require more than the consistent application of abstract principles.
Dale Dauten
Nine-tenths of wisdom is appreciation. Go find somebody's hand and squeeze it, while there's time.
Augustine of Hippo
We were ensnared by the wisdom of the serpent; we are set free by the foolishness of God.
Thomas Fuller (writer)
It is Wit to pick a Lock, and steal a Horse ; but it is Wisdom to let it alone.
Wallace Stevens | Wisdom Quotes
Let wise men piece the world together with wisdom
Or poets with holy magic.
Hey-di-ho.
Ambrose Bierce
Age, with his eyes in the back of his head, thinks it wisdom to see the bogs through which he has floundered.
Robert A. Heinlein
Wisdom includes not getting angry unnecessarily. The Law ignores trifles and the wise man does, too.
Piet Hein
Wisdom is
the booby prize
given when you've been
unwise.
Bertolt Brecht
Mixing one's wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.


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