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Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live.
Robert Kennedy
It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.
Henry David Thoreau
Back of every mistaken venture and defeat is the laughter of wisdom, if you listen.
Carl Sandburg
To be satisfied with a little, is the greatest wisdom and he that increaseth his riches, increaseth his cares but a contented mind is a hidden treasure, and trouble findeth it not.
Akhenaton
Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?
T. S. Eliot
To suppose more than one supreme Source of infinite wisdom, power, and all perfections, is to assert that there is no supreme Being in existence.
Adam Clarke
Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
The truest wisdom is a resolute determination.
Napoleon Bonaparte
If you call failures experiments, you can put them in your resume and claim them as achievements.
Mason Cooley
So confident am I in the intentions, as well as wisdom, of the government, that I shall always be satisfied that what is not done, either cannot, or ought not to be done.
Thomas Jefferson
Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain.
Khalil Gibran
Wisdom comes alone through suffering.
Aeschylus
Both in thought and in feeling, even though time be real, to realise the unimportance of time is the gate of wisdom.
Bertrand Russell
The heart of the wise man lies quiet like limpid water.
Proverb
The greatest event for the world is the arrival of a new and wise person.
Thomas Carlyle
Great men are the commissioned guides of mankind, who rule their fellows because they are wiser.
It's the height of folly to want to be the only wise one.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.
We are to get wisdom and understanding, yet we are not to lean on it apart from the Lord.
John C. Maxwell
Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.
Francis Bacon