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- Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford on Wisdom
- Of all our possessions, wisdom alone is imortal.
- Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.
- Of prosperity mortals can never have enough.
- Old myths, old gods, old heroes have never died. They are only sleeping at the bottom of our mind, waiting for our call. We have need for them. They represent the wisdom of our race.
- Stanley Kunitz on Wisdom
- One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know.
- John Kenneth Galbraith on Wisdom
- One of the most beautiful passages of Rousseau is that in the sixth book of Confessions, where he describes the awakening in him of the literary sense. Of such wisdom, the poetic passion, the desire of beauty, the love of art for its own sake, has most.
- Walter Pater on Wisdom
- One part of wisdom is knowing what you don't need anymore and letting it go.
- Jane Fonda on Wisdom
- One reason the human race has such a low opinion of itself is that it gets so much of its wisdom from writers.
- Wilfrid Sheed on Wisdom
- Our bodies are at once the receiving and transmitting stations for life itself. It is the highest wisdom to recognize this fact and train our bodies to render them sensitive and responsive to nature. art and religion.
- Ruth St. Denis on Wisdom
- Our experience is composed rather of illusions that of wisdom acquired.
- Joseph Roux on Wisdom
- Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way.
- Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack. We give it orders which make no sense.
- Henry Miller on Wisdom
- Our wisdom comes from our experience, and our experience comes from our foolishness.
- Sacha Guitry on Wisdom
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