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- Pessimism is only the name that men of weak nerves give to wisdom.
- Bernard De Voto on Wisdom
- Practical wisdom is only to be learned in the school of experience. Precepts and instruction are useful so far as they go, but, without the discipline of real life, they remain of the nature of theory only.
- Samuel Smiles on Wisdom
- Preconceived notions are the locks on the door to wisdom.
- Merry Browne on Wisdom
- Public opinion is no more than this: what people think that other people think.
- Alfred Austin on Wisdom
- Purity engenders Wisdom, Passion avarice, and Ignorance folly, infatuation and darkness.
- Cyril Connolly on Wisdom
- Putting is like wisdom - partly a natural gift and partly the accumulation of experience.
- Arnold Palmer on Wisdom
- Raising children is an incredibly hard and risky business in which no cumulative wisdom is gained: each generation repeats the mistakes the previous one made.
- Bill Cosby on Wisdom
- Rarely promise, but, if lawful, constantly perform.
- William Penn on Wisdom
- Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
- Albert Einstein on Wisdom
- Remembering is painful, it's difficult, but it can be inspiring and it can give wisdom.
- Paul Greengrass on Wisdom
- Repeat anything often enough and it will start to become you.
- Tom Hopkins on Wisdom
- Rich people without wisdom and learning are but sheep with golden fleeces.
- Rightly defined philosophy is simply the love of wisdom.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero on Wisdom
- Saudi Arabia is a puritanical state that claims a monopoly of wisdom and virtue.
- James Buchan on Wisdom
- Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.
- Will Durant on Wisdom
- Science investigates religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power religion gives man wisdom which is control.
- Martin Luther King, Jr. on Wisdom
- Science is always discovering odd scraps of magical wisdom and making a tremendous fuss about its cleverness.
- Aleister Crowley on Wisdom
- Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
- Immanuel Kant on Wisdom
- Sciences may be learned by rote, but wisdom not.
- Laurence Sterne on Wisdom
- Second, this epic tale allows the audience to actually listen to the Native Americans and receive their wisdom. Spielberg conveys the respect for Native Americans that is normally lacking in Western films.
- Beau Bridges on Wisdom
- Self-suggestion makes you master of yourself.
- W. Clement Stone on Wisdom
- Silence and reserve will give anyone a reputation for wisdom.
- Myrtle Reed on Wisdom
- Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech.
- Silence is a source of great strength.
- Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.
- Francis Bacon on Wisdom
- Silence is true wisdom's best reply.
- Singleness of purpose is one of the chief essentials for success in life, no matter what may be one's aim.
- John D. Rockefeller on Wisdom
- So confident am I in the intentions, as well as wisdom, of the government, that I shall always be satisfied that what is not done, either cannot, or ought not to be done.
- Thomas Jefferson on Wisdom
- Some folks are wise and some are otherwise.
- Tobias Smollett on Wisdom
- Some of the best lessons we ever learn are learned from past mistakes. The error of the past is the wisdom and success of the future.
- Dale Turner on Wisdom
- Some wisdom you must learn from one who's wise.
- Someday in the distant cyborg future, when our internal and external memories fully merge, we may come to possess infinite knowledge. But that's not the same thing as wisdom.
- Joshua Foer on Wisdom
- Sometimes one likes foolish people for their folly, better than wise people for their wisdom.
- Elizabeth Gaskell on Wisdom
- Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life.
- Lord Byron on Wisdom
- Spectacular achievement is always preceded by unspectacular preparation.
- Robert H. Schuller on Wisdom
- Spend time reflecting on your emotional and physical existence and how that applies to the voice. You have to apply that wisdom and experience when you sing - it's what comes through.
- K. D. Lang on Wisdom
- Spending two years on my uncle's ranch in Montana as a young man gave me the wisdom and the thrust to do westerns.
- Robert Duvall on Wisdom
- Start wide, expand further, and never look back.
- Arnold Schwarzenegger on Wisdom
- Start with God - the first step in learning is bowing down to God only fools thumb their noses at such wisdom and learning.
- King Solomon on Wisdom
- Strength and wisdom are not opposing values.
- William J. Clinton on Wisdom
- Strong characters are brought out by change of situation, and gentle ones by permanence.
- Surely, God on high has not refused to give us enough wisdom to find ways to bring us an improvement in relations between the two great nations on earth.
- Mikhail Gorbachev on Wisdom
- Teach you children poetry it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.
- Walter Scott on Wisdom
- That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in another.
- Adlai E. Stevenson on Wisdom
- The 'wisdom of the crowds' is the most ridiculous statement I've heard in my life. Crowds are dumb.
- Drew Curtis on Wisdom
- The all-seeing eye of God beheld our deplorable state infinite pity touched the heart of the Father of mercies and infinite wisdom laid the plan of our recovery.
- David Brainerd on Wisdom
- The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
- William James on Wisdom
- The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out.
- Walter Benjamin on Wisdom
- The arts, quite simply, nourish the soul. They sustain, comfort, inspire. There is nothing like that exquisite moment when you first discover the beauty of connecting with others in celebration of larger ideals and shared wisdom.
- Gordon Gee on Wisdom
- The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.
- Albert Einstein on Wisdom
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