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William Eardley IV on wisdom
Author: William Eardley IV“Lord, bless me with the ability to achieve all that I can, and the wisdom to realize it doesn’t all have to be by tomorrow!” -William Eardley IV
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Chen Shui-bian on wisdom
Author: Chen Shui-bian“Through mutual understanding, sincerity and goodwill, and with great wisdom and broad views, the leaders on both sides should jointly initiate new opportunities for peace, stability, cooperation and mutual benefit.” -Chen Shui-bian
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Sophocles on wisdom
Author: Sophocles“If you were to offer a thirsty man all wisdom, you would not please him more than if you gave him a drink.” -Sophocles
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William Wordsworth on wisdom
Author: William Wordsworth“Wisdom is oftentimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar.” -William Wordsworth
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Lin Yutang on wisdom
Author: Lin Yutang“Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.” -Lin Yutang
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William Penn on wisdom
Author: William Penn“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.” -William Penn
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William Hazlitt on wisdom
Author: William Hazlitt“To think ill of mankind and not wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue.” -William Hazlitt
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John Kenneth Galbraith on wisdom
Author: John Kenneth Galbraith“The enemy of the conventional wisdom is not ideas but the march of events.” -John Kenneth Galbraith
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Joseph Addison on wisdom
Author: Joseph Addison“Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass.” -Joseph Addison
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Walter Scott on wisdom
Author: Walter Scott“Teach you children poetry it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.” -Walter Scott
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James Madison on wisdom
Author: James Madison“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.” -James Madison
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Homer on wisdom
Author: Homer“In youth and beauty, wisdom is but rare!” -Homer
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Bodhidharma on wisdom
Author: Bodhidharma“Not engaging in ignorance is wisdom.” -Bodhidharma
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Henry Miller on wisdom
Author: Henry Miller“Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack. We give it orders which make no sense.” -Henry Miller
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Venerable Bede on wisdom
Author: Venerable Bede“And I pray thee, loving Jesus, that as Thou hast graciously given me to drink in with delight the words of Thy knowledge, so Thou wouldst mercifully grant me to attain one day to Thee, the fountain of all wisdom and to appear forever before Thy face.” -Venerable Bede
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William Osler on wisdom
Author: William Osler“The philosophies of one age have become the absurdities of the next, and the foolishness of yesterday has become the wisdom of tomorrow.” -William Osler
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Theodore Isaac Rubin on wisdom
Author: Theodore Isaac Rubin“Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom.” -Theodore Isaac Rubin
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Thomas Huxley on wisdom
Author: Thomas Huxley“In science, as in art, and, as I believe, in every other sphere of human activity, there may be wisdom in a multitude of counsellors, but it is only in one or two of them.” -Thomas Huxley
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George Santayana on wisdom
Author: George Santayana“The hunger for facile wisdom is the root of all false philosophy.” -George Santayana
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Amy Grant on wisdom
Author: Amy Grant“There’s a beauty to wisdom and experience that cannot be faked. It’s impossible to be mature without having lived.” -Amy Grant
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Alice Walker on wisdom
Author: Alice Walker“Clearly older women and especially older women who have led an active life or elder women who successfully maneuver through their own family life have so much to teach us about sharing, patience, and wisdom.” -Alice Walker
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Lord Byron on wisdom
Author: Lord Byron“Though sages may pour out their wisdom’s treasure, there is no sterner moralist than pleasure.” -Lord Byron
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King Abdullah II on wisdom
Author: King Abdullah II“I have the responsibility of over four million people, and I am in a position to do good, to be able to bring about a new life for my people, and I will continue to move in that direction. It’s a burden, but it needs to be done, and you have to have the courage…
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Michel de Montaigne on wisdom
Author: Michel de Montaigne“The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.” -Michel de Montaigne