712 private quotes tagged wisdom

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“Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.”— Alfred Tennyson
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“A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.”— Nelson Mandela
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“Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain.”— Khalil Gibran
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“The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds.”— John F. Kennedy
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“The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom... in a clarification of life - not necessarily a great clarification, such as sects and cults are founded on, but in a momentary stay against confusion.”— Robert Frost
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“The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.”— Benjamin Franklin
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“Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use.”— Thomas J. Watson
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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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“Knowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom.”— Plato
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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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“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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“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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“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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“Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.”— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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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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“To make no mistakes is not in the power of man but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.”— Plutarch
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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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“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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“I look forward to a great future for America - a future in which our country will match its military strength with our moral restraint, its wealth with our wisdom, its power with our purpose.”— John F. Kennedy
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“If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.”— Nelson Mandela
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“Wisdom and deep intelligence require an honest appreciation of mystery.”— Thomas Moore
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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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“Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.”— Albert Einstein
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“We can be knowledgable with other men's knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.”— Michel de Montaigne