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True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.
Socrates
When I wrote Living in the Light, I wanted to share about how I live my own life and to encourage people to tap into their own inner wisdom.
Shakti Gawain
At sixty, I know little more about wisdom than I did at thirty, but I know a great deal more about folly.
Mason Cooley
The only man I know who behaves sensibly is my tailor; he takes my measurements anew each time he sees me. The rest go on with their old measurements and expect me to fit them.
George Bernard Shaw
Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The most exquisite folly is made of wisdom too fine spun
Benjamin Franklin
I left school at 16 but I wish I'd gone to university - I think I would have studied English literature. I had a knack for that. But I don't think you have the kind of wisdom at 16 to make that decision.
Brendan Coyle
Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it.
Henry Ward Beecher
We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.
A word to the wise is not sufficient if it doesn't make sense.
James Thurber
I actually don't think that I'm that much smarter than anybody else. It's just that I frequently just seem to know what to do, and I think that's wisdom.
Benjamin Carson
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
You tell me: 'Life is hard to bear.' But if it were otherwise why should ou have your pride in the morning nad your resignation in the evening?
Friedrich Nietzsche
Yale is a crucible in American life for the accommodation of intellectual achievement, of wisdom, of refinement, with the democratic ideals of openness, of social justice and of equal opportunity.
Benno C. Schmidt, Jr.
Talk is free but the wise man chooses when to spend his words.
Neil Gaiman
Analysts may be correct that the presidential election won't primarily turn on entitlements reform, but by choosing Paul Ryan as his running mate, Mitt Romney can, contrary to conventional wisdom, make it a winning issue and lay the foundation for a reform mandate when he wins.
David Limbaugh
The truest greatness lies in being kind, the truest wisdom in a happy mind.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
I find the fact that billionaires are quoted as if the fact that they are billionaires gives them some kind of wisdom is outrageous.
Ben Elton
Silence is a source of great strength.
Lao Tzu
Purity engenders Wisdom, Passion avarice, and Ignorance folly, infatuation and darkness.
Cyril Connolly