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It is Wit to pick a Lock, and steal a Horse ; but it is Wisdom to let it alone.
Martin Luther
Religion is not 'doctrinal knowledge,' but wisdom born of personal experience.
Benjamin Disraeli
The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation.




Muhammad al-Baqir
Opposition of one's desires is the sign of the highest level of wisdom in a human being.
Peter J. Carroll
Science has brought us power and ideas but not the wisdom or responsibility to handle them.
Evelyn Waugh | Wisdom Quotes
He was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the rich.
Florence Earle Coates
A man's wisdom is measured by his hope.
Jose Saramago
The young have the ability, but lack the wisdom, and the old have the wisdom, but lack the ability.
Carole King
Way over yonder is a place I have seen
In a garden of wisdom from some long ago dream.
Husayn ibn Ali
Increase of experiences, increases the wisdom of mankind.
Robert A. Heinlein | Wisdom Quotes
It's amazing how much "mature wisdom" resembles being too tired.




Augustine of Hippo
We were ensnared by the wisdom of the serpent; we are set free by the foolishness of God.
Clarence Darrow
I have always felt that doubt was the beginning of wisdom, and the fear of God was the end of wisdom.
Vernon Howard
The delusion of having wisdom creates the dangerous delusion of having power, leading to disaster.
Leo Tolstoy
The only thing that we know is that we know nothing — and that is the highest flight of human wisdom.
John Russell | Wisdom Quotes
[A proverb is] one man's wit, and all men's wisdom.
Patricia A. McKillip
Wisdom never learned silence, and it is most annoying when least wanted.
W. E. B. DuBois
The Wisdom of W.E.B. Du Bois
Edward Young
The man of wisdom is the man of years.
John Kenneth Galbraith
The enemy of the conventional wisdom is not ideas but the march of events.


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