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All truly wise thoughts have been thought already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, until they take root in our personal experience.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.
Ansel Adams
I feel increasingly like age is very irrelevant. Quite often, cynicism is confused with wisdom, and my scorn is confused with a knowing, which I don't have.
Laura Marling
Preconceived notions are the locks on the door to wisdom.
Merry Browne
one half of her should not be always so much wiser than the other half
Jane Austen
Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago.
I am not one who was born in the custody of wisdom I am one who is fond of olden times and intense in quest of the sacred knowing of the ancients.
Gustave Courbet
There is a trade off - as you grow older you gain wisdom but you lose spontaneity.
Kenny Rogers
The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
I tweet, therefore my entire life has shrunk to 140 character chunks of instant event and predigested gnomic wisdom. And swearing.
Neil Gaiman
Conventional wisdom holds that setting a timetable for getting American troops out of Iraq would be a mistake.
Nick Clooney
This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.
Johann von Goethe
Who is the wisest man? He who neither knows or wishes for anything else than what happens.
Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
H. L. Mencken
They would need to be already wise, in order to love wisdom.
Friedrich Schiller
Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency.
John Updike
Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.
Thomas Jefferson
When written in Chinese, the word 'crisis' is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity.
John F. Kennedy
A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.
Francis Bacon
When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.
Confucius