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George Eliot | Wisdom Quotes
More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Modernity: we created youth without heroism, age without wisdom, and life without grandeur.
Bertrand Russell
To understand the actual world as it is, not as we should wish it to be, is the beginning of wisdom.




Evans
Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning.
Petronius
Beauty and wisdom are rarely conjoined.
Edward Young | Wisdom Quotes
The man of wisdom is the man of years.
Robert Jordan
Have you finished sharing your wisdom, Jasin Natael?
John Hennigan
We don't let nerds hang out at the Palace of Wisdom.
Carole King
Way over yonder is a place I have seen
In a garden of wisdom from some long ago dream.
Jean Cocteau
The extreme limit of wisdom — that’s what the public calls madness.
George Crabbe | Wisdom Quotes
In idle wishes fools supinely stay;
Be there a will, and wisdom finds a way.




Sigmund Freud
Wisdom is something I would never expect from Freud. Cleverness, certainly; but not wisdom.
Norman Finkelstein
Speaking as a devout atheist, thank God in his Almighty wisdom that he made us mortal.
Felix Frankfurter
Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late.
Margaret Fuller
It is astonishing what force, purity, and wisdom it requires for a human being to keep clear of falsehoods.
Estelle Getty | Wisdom Quotes
Age does not bring you wisdom, age brings you wrinkles.
Leo Tolstoy
The only thing that we know is that we know nothing — and that is the highest flight of human wisdom.
Alexandre Dumas
All human wisdom is contained in these words: Wait and hope!
Friedrich Holderlin
What is the wisdom of a book compared with the wisdom of an angel?
John Russell
[A proverb is] one man's wit, and all men's wisdom.


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