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- Irony is the gaiety of reflection and the joy of wisdom.
- Anatole France on Wisdom
- It has become part of the accepted wisdom to say that the twentieth century was the century of physics and the twenty-first century will be the century of biology.
- Freeman Dyson on Wisdom
- It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important.
- Arthur Conan Doyle on Wisdom
- It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.
- Henry David Thoreau on Wisdom
- It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it.
- John Steinbeck on Wisdom
- It is almost everywhere the case that soon after it is begotten the greater part of human wisdom is laid to rest in repositories.
- Georg C. Lichtenberg on Wisdom
- It is astonishing what force, purity, and wisdom it requires for a human being to keep clear of falsehoods.
- Margaret Fuller on Wisdom
- It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own.
- William Ralph Inge on Wisdom
- It is better to risk starving to death then surrender. If you give up on your dreams, what's left?
- Jim Carrey on Wisdom
- It is costly wisdom that is bought by experience.
- Roger Ascham on Wisdom
- It is essential to employ, trust, and reward those whose perspective, ability, and judgment are radically different from yours. It is also rare, for it requires uncommon humility, tolerance, and wisdom.
- It is good even for old men to learn wisdom.
- It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.
- Francois De La Rochefoucauld on Wisdom
- It is impossible to love and to be wise.
- Francis Bacon on Wisdom
- It is much more difficult to measure nonperformance than performance.
- Harold S. Geneen on Wisdom
- It is not from reason that justice springs, but goodness is born of wisdom.
- Maurice Maeterlinck on Wisdom
- It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.
- It is not wisdom but Authority that makes a law.
- Thomas Hobbes on Wisdom
- It is now conventional wisdom that Americans do not care why we went to war in Iraq, that it is enough that the world is better off without Saddam Hussein.
- Adam Schiff on Wisdom
- It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.
- It is the neglect of timely repair that makes rebuilding necessary.
- Richard Whately on Wisdom
- It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes on Wisdom
- It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.
- Mahatma Gandhi on Wisdom
- It is wisdom in prosperity, when all is as thou wouldn't have it, to fear and suspect the worst.
- Desiderius Erasmus on Wisdom
- It may almost be a question whether such wisdom as many of us have in our mature years has not come from the dying out of the power of temptation, rather than as the results of thought and resolution.
- Anthony Trollope on Wisdom
- It may be assumed as an axiom that Providence has never gifted any political party with all of political wisdom or blinded it with all of political folly.
- John George Nicolay on Wisdom
- It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.
- Walter Lippmann on Wisdom
- It seems to me that, in every culture, I come across a chapter headed 'Wisdom.' And then I know exactly what is going to follow: 'Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.'
- Ludwig Wittgenstein on Wisdom
- It takes a great man to give sound advice tactfully, but a greater to accept it graciously.
- Logan P. Smith on Wisdom
- It's better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your life.
- Elizabeth Kenny on Wisdom
- It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.
- Henry David Thoreau on Wisdom
- It's received wisdom that the English are uniquely child-unfriendly.
- Julie Burchill on Wisdom
- It's very hard to know what wisdom is.
- James Hillman on Wisdom
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