712 private quotes tagged wisdom

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“Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?”— T. S. Eliot
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“Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.”— Alfred Tennyson
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“The doors of wisdom are never shut.”— Benjamin Franklin
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“Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe.”— Josh Billings
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“What is the price of experience? Do men buy it for a song? Or wisdom for a dance in the street? No, it is bought with the price of all the man hath, his house, his wife, his children.”— William Blake
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“In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.”— Ansel Adams
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“Honesty is the best policy.”— Benjamin Franklin
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“A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.”— Khalil Gibran
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“Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.”— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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“It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.”— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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“Science investigates; religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge, which is power; religion gives man wisdom, which is control.”— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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“Beware of false knowledge it is more dangerous than ignorance.”— George Bernard Shaw
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“The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.”— Friedrich Nietzsche
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“I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.”— Lao Tzu
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“The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.”— Khalil Gibran
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“Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.”— Aldous Huxley
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“I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.”— Thomas Jefferson
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“Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.”— Bertrand Russell
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“Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future.”— Oliver Wendell Holmes
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“Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.”— Ambrose Bierce
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“Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.”— Sophocles
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“Wisdom and deep intelligence require an honest appreciation of mystery.”— Thomas Moore
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“Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom and a great empire and little minds go ill together.”— Edmund Burke
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“However glorious an action in itself, it ought not to pass for great if it be not the effect of wisdom and intention.”— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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“There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.”— Francis Bacon