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He who devotes sixteen hours a day to hard study may become at sixty as wise as he thought himself at twenty.
Mary Wilson Little
Philosopher: A lover of wisdom, which is to say, Truth
Voltaire
Trees are poems the earth writes upon the sky, We fell them down and turn them into paper,That we may record our emptiness.
Kahlil Gibran
Those who know the rules of true wisdom are baser than those who love them. Those who love them are baser than those who follow them.
Leo Tolstoy
Wisdom is a sacred communion.
Victor Hugo
I will give you a definition of a proud man: he is a man who has neither vanity nor wisdom one filled with hatreds cannot be vain, neither can he be wise.
John Keats
She had that irony in her eyes. Knowledge without wisdom. Power without purpose. Like me.
Orson Scott Card
We have heeded no wisdom offering guidance.
Dora Russell
The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.
When the superior scholar hears of Tao, he diligently practises it. When the average scholar hears of Tao, he sometimes retains it, sometimes loses it. When the inferior scholar hears of Tao, he loudly laughs at it. Were it not thus ridiculed, it would not be worthy of the name of Tao.
LaoTzu, Source: The Sayings of L
Behold, my son, with what little wisdom the world is ruled.
Count Axel Gustafsson Oxenstiern
What is the price of experience? Do men buy it for a song? Or wisdom for a dance in the street? No, it is bought with the price of all the man hath, his house, his wife, his children.
William Blake
The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.
The tigers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction.
It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
There are three methods to gaining wisdom. The first is reflection, which is the highest. The second is limitation, which is the easiest. The third is experience, which is the bitterest.
Confucius
Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men.
There is no wisdom save in truth. Truth is everlasting, but our ideas about truth are changeable. Only a little of the first fruits of wisdom, only a few fragments of the boundless heights, breadths and depths of truth, have I been able to gather.
Martin Luther
Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life -- in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.
Seneca (Seneca the Elder)
It may serve as a comfort to us, in all our calamities and afflictions, that he that loses anything and gets wisdom by it is a gainer by the loss.
Sir Roger L'Estrange