Wisdom Quotes
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I have seen life from the top down and the bottom up. I know how it looks both ways. And I know there is wisdom and that there is hope.
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Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more.
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It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.
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Virtue makes us aim at the right end, and practical wisdom makes us take the right means.
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Words of wisdom are spoken by children at least as often as scientists.
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Take this as a gift from a crone to a maiden, and know there is not so much difference between the two. For even a tottering granddam keeps a portion of girlish heart, and the youngest maiden a thread of old woman’s wisdom.
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Wisdom is to have dreams big enough not to lose sight when we pursue them.
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The first point of wisdom is to discern that which is false; the second, to know that which is true.
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The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.
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You can only get discipline in the mass by discipline in the individual.
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If men possessed wisdom, which stands in the same relation to the form of man as the sight to the eye, they would not cause any injury to themselves or to others; for the knowledge of truth removes hatred and quarrels, and prevents mutual injuries.
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Knowledge is realizing that the street is one way; wisdom is looking in both directions anyway.
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I feel like I've matured more musically than I have personally. But I totally embrace what becoming older has to offer. I find the wisdom that comes with each passing year is a trip.
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I have not sought during my life to amass wealth and to adorn my body, but I have sought to adorn my soul with the jewels of wisdom, patience, and above all with a love of liberty.
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Set your course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.
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The attention is to be kept pure.
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We are, as a sex, infinitely superior to men, and if we were free and developed, healthy in body and mind, as we should be under natural conditions, our motherhood would be our glory. That function gives women such wisdom and power as no male can possess.
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The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.
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Observe the life by cause and consequence. Explore the life by wisdom. Treat the life by equality. Complete the life by love.
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The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.
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Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.
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Information is not knowledge. The only source of knowledge is experience. You need experience to gain wisdom.
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Facts are ventriloquists' dummies. Sitting on a wise man's knee they may be made to utter words of wisdom; elsewhere, they say nothing, or talk nonsense, or indulge in sheer diabolism.
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Knowing thyself is the height of wisdom.
