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Charles Dickens | Wisdom Quotes
There is a wisdom of the Head, and ... there is a wisdom of the Heart.
Thomas Henry Huxley
The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all the other woes of mankind, is wisdom.
Thomas Paine
Wisdom is not the purchase of a day, and it is no wonder that we should err at the first setting off.




Adlai Stevenson
That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in the next.
Anthony de Mello
Wisdom tends to grow in proportion to one's awareness of one's ignorance.
Anthony de Mello | Wisdom Quotes
Wisdom can be learned. But it cannot be taught.
Margaret Fuller
It is astonishing what force, purity, and wisdom it requires for a human being to keep clear of falsehoods.
John Buchan
Wise men never grow up; indeed, they grow younger, for they lose the appalling worldly wisdom of youth.
Sigmund Freud
Wisdom is something I would never expect from Freud. Cleverness, certainly; but not wisdom.
Edward Young
The man of wisdom is the man of years.
Ogden Nash | Wisdom Quotes
God in his wisdom made the fly
And then forgot to tell us why.




Jean Cocteau
The extreme limit of wisdom — that’s what the public calls madness.
Novalis
Philosophy … bears witness to the deepest love of reflection, to absolute delight in wisdom.
Graham Greene
Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.
Henry S. Haskins
There are many branches of learning, but only the one solid tree-trunk of wisdom.
Henry S. Haskins | Wisdom Quotes
Thought the fool is to be pitied, still he is spared watching spurious wisdom turn to ashes in his head.
Evelyn Waugh
He was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the rich.
Evelyn Waugh
To know and love one other human being is the root of all wisdom.
Honore de Balzac
Wisdom is the understanding of celestial things to which the Spirit is brought by Love.
Anthony Daniels
Wisdom and good governance require more than the consistent application of abstract principles.


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