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Aristophanes | Wisdom Quotes
Epops: A man may learn wisdom even from a foe.
(tr. in Goldstein-Jackson 1983, p. 163)
Sophocles
Wisdom outweighs any wealth.
Evelyn Waugh
He was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the rich.




Edmund Burke
The wisdom of our ancestors.
Patricia A. McKillip
Wisdom never learned silence, and it is most annoying when least wanted.
Thomas Paine | Wisdom Quotes
Wisdom is not the purchase of a day, and it is no wonder that we should err at the first setting off.
Stephen Covey
Wisdom is synergy of mind and heart.
Homer
The man for wisdom's various arts renown'd,
Long exercised in woes, O Muse! resound.
John Kenneth Galbraith
The enemy of the conventional wisdom is not ideas but the march of events.
Carole King
Way over yonder is a place I have seen
In a garden of wisdom from some long ago dream.
Arthur Conan Doyle | Wisdom Quotes
The highest morality may prove also to be the highest wisdom when the half-told story comes to be finished.




Bertolt Brecht
The aim of science is not to open the door to infinite wisdom, but to set some limit on infinite error.
John Hennigan
We do have jackets like that at the Palace of Wisdom. (in reference to Michael "P.S." Hayes)
Bill Clinton
Strength and wisdom are not opposing values.
Leo Tolstoy
The only thing that we know is that we know nothing — and that is the highest flight of human wisdom.
Anne Bradstreet | Wisdom Quotes
Authority without wisdom is like a heavy axe without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish.
Andrew Jackson
The wisdom of man never yet contrived a system of taxation that would operate with perfect equality.
Augustine of Hippo
Patience is the companion of wisdom.
Anthony de Mello
Wisdom tends to grow in proportion to one's awareness of one's ignorance.
Sophocles
A short saying often contains much wisdom.


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