“The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all other woes of mankind, is wisdom. Teach a man to read and write, and you have put into his hands the great keys of the wisdom box. But it is quite another thing to open the box.”
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“Some wisdom you must learn from one who's wise.”
“Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom.”
“Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack. We give it orders which make no sense.”
“Not engaging in ignorance is wisdom.”
“Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass.”
“One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know.”
“The enemy of the conventional wisdom is not ideas but the march of events.”
“To think ill of mankind and not wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue.”
“The hunger for facile wisdom is the root of all false philosophy.”
“Wisdom is oftentimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar.”
“Lord, bless me with the ability to achieve all that I can, and the wisdom to realize it doesn't all have to be by tomorrow!”
“The extreme limit of wisdom, that's what the public calls madness.”
“To profit from good advice requires more wisdom than to give it.”
“In my definition of consciousness, consciousness is the same thing as life. What wisdom traditions also call spirit.”
“Wisdom is humble that he knows no more.”
“It is not wisdom but Authority that makes a law.”
“We are to seek wisdom and understanding only in the length of days.”
“Moderation is the inseparable companion of wisdom, but with it genius has not even a nodding acquaintance.”
“The truest greatness lies in being kind, the truest wisdom in a happy mind.”
“Discipline is wisdom and vice versa.”
“Doubt is the vestibule through which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom.”
“The stupidity of people comes from having an answer for everything. The wisdom of the novel comes from having a question for everything.”
“True wisdom is less presuming than folly. The wise man doubteth often, and changeth his mind the fool is obstinate, and doubteth not he knoweth all things but his own ignorance.”