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To finish the moment, to find the journey's end in every step of the road, to live the greatest number of good hours, is wisdom.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Cara: I used to believe everything my brother told me, because he was older and I figured he knew more about the world. But as it turns out, being a grown-up doesn't mean you're fearless. It just means you fear different things.
Jodi Picoult
Look at those they call unfortunate and at a closer view, you'll find many of them are unwise.
Andrew Young
We learned in World War II that no single nation holds a monopoly on wisdom, morality or right to power, but that we must fight for the weak and promote democracy.
Joe Baca
We must expect reverses, even defeats. They are sent to teach us wisdom and prudence, to call forth greater energies, and to prevent our falling into greater disasters.
Robert E. Lee
Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass.
Joseph Addison
Children, who play life, discern its true law and relations more clearly than men, who fail to live it worthily, but who think that they are wiser by experience, that is, by failure
Henry David Thoreau
He who exercises wisdom exercises the knowledge which is about God.
Epictetus
In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.
Mark Twain
What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something.
Plato
The word philosophy sounds high-minded, but it simply means the love of wisdom. If you love something, you don't just read about it you hug it, you mess with it, you play with it, you argue with it.
Hugh Jackman
I don't turn to greeting cards for wisdom and advice, but they are a fine reflection of the general drift of the culture.
Susan Orlean
Wisdom is known only by contrasting it with folly; by shadow only we perceive that all visible objects are not flat. Yet Philanthropos would abolish evil!
Ambrose Bierce
The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.
Albert Einstein
The 'wisdom of the crowds' is the most ridiculous statement I've heard in my life. Crowds are dumb.
Drew Curtis
My mother is a great source of advice and wisdom and consolation for me.
Katherine Heigl
Earthlings went on being friendly, when they should have been thinking instead.
Kurt Vonnegut
Wise men learn more from fools than fools from the wise.
Cato The Elder
You despise books; you whose lives are absorbed in the vanities of ambition, the pursuit of pleasure or indolence; but remember that all the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books.
Voltaire