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Wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of your times.
Bible
In much wisdom is much grief; and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.
The wisdom acquired with the passage of time is a useless gift unless you share it.
Esther Williams
The wise man sees in the misfortune of others what he should avoid.
Marcus Aurelius
Great wisdom is generous petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech cantankerous.
Zhuang Zi
At any given moment there is an orthodoxy, a body of ideas of which it is assumed that all right-thinking people will accept without question. It is not exactly forbidden to say this, that or the other, but it is not done to say it Anyone who challenges the prevailing orthodoxy finds himself silenced with surprising effectiveness. A genuinely unfashionable opinion is almost never given a fair hearing, either in the popular press or in the high-brow periodicals.
George Orwell
Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh.
Kahlil Gibran
In justice to human society it may perhaps be said of almost all the polities and civil institutions in the world, however imperfect, that they have been founded in and carried on with very considerable wisdom.
Ezra Stiles
No gown worse becomes a woman than the desire to be wise
Martin Luther King Jr.
Be wise as a serpent and wary as a dove!
Mark Twain
The world is being created and destroyed in this very moment.
Paulo Coelho
I always see where I didn't do things the right way. I only see the heavy lifting. That's a bit of my wisdom, if you want to call it that.
Vera Wang
Sciences may be learned by rote, but wisdom not.
Laurence Sterne
For eighteen hundred years, though perchance I have no right to say it, the New Testament has been written; yet where is the legislator who has wisdom and practical talent enough to avail himself of the light which it sheds on the science of legislation?
Henry David Thoreau
Hatred is corrosive of a person's wisdom and conscience the mentality of enmity can poison a nation's spirit, instigate brutal life and death struggles, destroy a society's tolerance and humanity, and block a nation's progress to freedom and democracy.
Liu Xiaobo
It is much more difficult to measure nonperformance than performance.
Harold S. Geneen
Lord, give us the wisdom to utter words that are gentle and tender, for tomorrow we may have to eat them.
Mo Udall
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
Fats was starting to think that if you flipped every bit of received wisdom on its head you would have the truth. He wanted to journey through dark labyrinths and wrestle with the strangeness that lurked within; he wanted to crack open piety and expose hypocrisy; he wanted to break taboos and squeeze wisdom from their bloody hearts; he wanted to achieve a state of amoral grace, and be baptised backwards into ignorance and simplicity.
J.K. Rowling
A wholesome oblivion of one's neighbours is the beginning of wisdom.
Richard Le Gallienne