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He is no wise man that will quit a certainty for an uncertainty
Samuel Johnson
Nine times out of ten it is over the Bridge of Sighs that we pass the narrow gulf from youth to manhood. That interval is usually marked by an ill placed or disappointed affection. We recover and we find ourselves a new being. The intellect has become hardened by the fire through which it has passed. The mind profits by the wrecks of every passion, and we may measure our road to wisdom by the sorrows we have undergone.
Edward George BulwerLytton
Now all the knowledge and wisdom that is in creatures, whether angels or men, is nothing else but a participation of that one eternal, immutable and increased wisdom of God, or several signatures of that one archetypal seal, or like so many multiplied reflections of one and the same face, made in several glasses, whereof some are clearer, some obscurer, some standing nearer, some further off.
Ralph J. Cudworth
After all my possessions had been burned, God gave me the wisdom to return to Jerusalem.
Shmuel Y. Agnon
Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know.
William Saroyan
Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.
Plautus
No man is wise enough by himself.
Wisdom is that apprehension of heavenly things to which the spirit rises through love.
Honore de Balzac
By the time your life is finished, you will have learned just enough to begin it well.
Eleanor Marx
The left has come to regard common sense - the traditional wisdom and folkways of the community - as an obstacle to progress and enlightenment.
Christopher Lasch
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
Albert Einstein
Beauty is the wisdom of women. Wisdom is the beauty of men.
Chinese Proverb
Deep doubts, deep wisdom; small doubts, little wisdom.
A single conversation across the table with a wise man is worth a month's study of books.
Love is wise; hatred is foolish. In this world, which is getting more and more closely interconnected, we have to learn to tolerate each other, we have to learn to put up with the fact that some people say things that we don't like. We can only live together in that way. But if we are to live together, and not die together, we must learn a kind of charity and a kind of tolerance, which is absolutely vital to the continuation of human life on this planet.
Bertrand Russell
Great wisdom is generous petty wisdom is contentious.
Zhuangzi
Much of the wisdom of one age, is the folly of the next.
Charles Simmons
No man is poor who has a Godly mother.
Abraham Lincoln
We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
All resistance bears within it the seeds of growth, experience, and wisdom.
Steve Maraboli