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We can be knowledgable with other men's knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.
Michel de Montaigne
We should not judge people by their peak of excellence but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.
Henry Ward Beecher
The doors of wisdom are never shut.
Benjamin Franklin
Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.
Alexander Pope
It has become part of the accepted wisdom to say that the twentieth century was the century of physics and the twenty-first century will be the century of biology.
Freeman Dyson
To keep your secret is wisdom but to expect others to keep it is folly.
Samuel Johnson
Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment.
Lao Tzu
Wisdom we know is the knowledge of good and evil -- not the strength to choose between the two.
John Cheever
Be there a will, and wisdom finds a way.
George Crabbe
If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise.
William Butler Yeats
Knowledge comes by taking things apart, but wisdom comes by putting things together.
John A. Morrison
Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.
Tom Wilson
Tis easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow it.
Wisdom is knowledge which has become a part of one's being.
Orison Swett Marden
Kisses are a better fate than wisdom.
e. e. cummings
I prefer the folly of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.
Anatole France
Cheap booze is a false economy.
Christopher Hitchens
He who is looking for wisdom is already wise; and he who thinks that he has found wisdom is a stupid man.
Leo Tolstoy
Wisdom has never made a bigot, but learning has.
Josh Billings
I chose Sony Classics, not just because of their practical experience, not just because of their wisdom in marketing, but mainly because of their integrity.
Arthur Cohn