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It is impossible to love and to be wise.
Francis Bacon
It is not enough to prove something, one has also to seduce or elevate people to it. That is why the man of knowledge should learn how to speak his wisdom: and often in such a way that it sounds like folly!
Friedrich Nietzsche
Wisdom is humble that he knows no more.
William Cowper
Wise kings generally have wise counselors and he must be a wise man himself who is capable of distinguishing one.
Diogenes
The plan was criticized by some retired military officers embedded in TV studios. But with every advance by our coalition forces, the wisdom of that plan becomes more apparent.
Dick Cheney
I don't know what weapons will be used in world war three, but in world war four people will use sticks and stones.
Albert Einstein
The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark.
Michelangelo
Dr. Johnson has said that the chief glory of a country arises from its authors. But then that is only as they are oracles of wisdom unless they teach virtue, they are more worthy of a halter than of the laurel.
Jane Porter
Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers, and he bears a laden breast,Full of sad experience, moving toward the stillness of his rest.
Alfred Lord Tennyson, Locksley H
Wenn [der Lehrer] wirklich weise ist, fordert er euch nicht auf, ins Haus seiner Weisheit einzutreten, sondern führt euch an die Schwelle eures eigenen Geistes.
Kahlil Gibran
All knowledge hurts.
Cassandra Clare
...Nobody knows like a woman how to say things that are both sweet and profound. Sweetness and depth, this is all of woman; this is Heaven.
Victor Hugo
If to live is to progress, if you are lucky, from foolishness to wisdom, then to write novels is to broadcast the various stages of your foolishness.
Jane Smiley
He who speaks without an attentive ear is mute.
Stephen King
The rule of the universe is that others can do for us what we cannot do for ourselves, and one can paddle every canoe except one's own.
C.S. Lewis
The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.
Oscar Wilde
Ihr redet, wenn ihr aufhört mit euren Gedanken in Frieden zu sein.
Hardest of all, as one becomes older, is to accept that sapient remarks can be drawn from the most unwelcome or seemingly improbable sources, and that the apparently more trustworthy sources can lead one astray.
Christopher Hitchens
proclaimed Donne, , and he was wrong. If we were not islands, we would be lost, drowned in each other's tragedies.
Neil Gaiman
I do not expect old heads on young shoulders.