“Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.”
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wisdom
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“The hours of folly are measured by the clock but of wisdom, no clock can measure.”
“If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise.”
“Back of every mistaken venture and defeat is the laughter of wisdom, if you listen.”
“To keep your secret is wisdom but to expect others to keep it is folly.”
“In the vain laughter of folly, wisdom hears half its applause.”
“I prefer the folly of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.”
“A short saying often contains much wisdom.”
“At sixty, I know little more about wisdom than I did at thirty, but I know a great deal more about folly.”
“Irony is the gaiety of reflection and the joy of wisdom.”
“Though sages may pour out their wisdom's treasure, there is no sterner moralist than pleasure.”
“Every nation whose affairs betray a want of wisdom and stability may calculate on every loss which can be sustained from the more systematic policy of its wiser neighbors.”
“Much wisdom often goes with fewest words.”
“He who is taught to live upon little owes more to his father's wisdom than he who has a great deal left him does to his father's care.”
“If you were to offer a thirsty man all wisdom, you would not please him more than if you gave him a drink.”
“It is good even for old men to learn wisdom.”
“They would need to be already wise, in order to love wisdom.”
“Logic is the beginning of wisdom, not the end.”
“Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.”
“Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.”
“Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.”
“It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.”
“Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself.”
“The philosophies of one age have become the absurdities of the next, and the foolishness of yesterday has become the wisdom of tomorrow.”