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Orison Swett Marden on wisdom
Author: Orison Swett Marden“Wisdom is knowledge which has become a part of one’s being.” -Orison Swett Marden
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Gilbert K. Chesterton on wisdom
Author: Gilbert K. Chesterton“Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache.” -Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Ansel Adams on wisdom
Author: Ansel Adams“In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.” -Ansel Adams
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King Solomon on wisdom
Author: King Solomon“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
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Immanuel Kant on wisdom
Author: Immanuel Kant“Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.” -Immanuel Kant
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Marcus Tullius Cicero on wisdom
Author: Marcus Tullius Cicero“Rightly defined philosophy is simply the love of wisdom.” -Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Bertrand Russell on wisdom
Author: Bertrand Russell“Both in thought and in feeling, even though time be real, to realise the unimportance of time is the gate of wisdom.” -Bertrand Russell
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Edmund Burke on wisdom
Author: Edmund Burke“Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom and a great empire and little minds go ill together.” -Edmund Burke
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Francois de La Rochefoucauld on wisdom
Author: Francois de La Rochefoucauld“However glorious an action in itself, it ought not to pass for great if it be not the effect of wisdom and intention.” -Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Hillary Clinton on wisdom
Author: Hillary Clinton“I learned some valuable lessons about the legislative process, the importance of bipartisan cooperation and the wisdom of taking small steps to get a big job done.” -Hillary Clinton
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Dwight D. Eisenhower on wisdom
Author: Dwight D. Eisenhower“The older I get the more wisdom I find in the ancient rule of taking first things first. A process which often reduces the most complex human problem to a manageable proportion.” -Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Thomas Carlyle on wisdom
Author: Thomas Carlyle“In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom and unwisdom we have to say, Like People like Government.” -Thomas Carlyle
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Rabindranath Tagore on wisdom
Author: Rabindranath Tagore“Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.” -Rabindranath Tagore
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E. O. Wilson on wisdom
Author: E. O. Wilson“We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom. The world henceforth will be run by synthesizers, people able to put together the right information at the right time, think critically about it, and make important choices wisely.” -E. O. Wilson
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Theodore Dreiser on wisdom
Author: Theodore Dreiser“In order to have wisdom we must have ignorance.” -Theodore Dreiser
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Marcel Proust on wisdom
Author: Marcel Proust“We don’t receive wisdom we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.” -Marcel Proust
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Lucius Annaeus Seneca on wisdom
Author: Lucius Annaeus Seneca“Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life – in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk and to make our words and actions all of a color.” -Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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Sigmund Freud on wisdom
Author: Sigmund Freud“Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.” -Sigmund Freud
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Andrew Jackson on wisdom
Author: Andrew Jackson“The wisdom of man never yet contrived a system of taxation that would operate with perfect equality.” -Andrew Jackson
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Ambrose Bierce on wisdom
Author: Ambrose Bierce“Experience – the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.” -Ambrose Bierce
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Thomas Paine on wisdom
Author: Thomas Paine“War involves in its progress such a train of unforeseen circumstances that no human wisdom can calculate the end it has but one thing certain, and that is to increase taxes.” -Thomas Paine
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Henry Ward Beecher on wisdom
Author: Henry Ward Beecher“What we call wisdom is the result of all the wisdom of past ages. Our best institutions are like young trees growing upon the roots of the old trunks that have crumbled away.” -Henry Ward Beecher
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Michelle Obama on wisdom
Author: Michelle Obama“And I love that even in the toughest moments, when we’re all sweating it – when we’re worried that the bill won’t pass, and it seems like all is lost – Barack never lets himself get distracted by the chatter and the noise. Just like his grandmother, he just keeps getting up and moving forward……
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Calvin Coolidge on wisdom
Author: Calvin Coolidge“Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of facts within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.” -Calvin Coolidge