Wisdom Quotes
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Knowledge is knowing a fact, wisdom is knowing what to do with that fact.
B. J. Palmer -
Way over yonder is a place I have seen In a garden of wisdom from some long ago dream.
Carole King
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Yet, beauty cannot be forgotten, Eternal Wisdom can never die.
E. A. Bucchianeri -
You should not be afraid of failures, and not get enamored by success.
Nirmala Srivastava -
Wisdom is not about what you know, but how you know it. If knowledge is a measure of the grasp an individual has of a given subject, wisdom is a measure of his grip. Does he hold his ideas lightly or loosely? Will he let go when they show signs of wear or inappropriateness?
Andrew Hargadon -
Show me a poorly uniformed troop and I'll show you a poorly uniformed leader.
Robert Baden-Powell -
Data is not information, information is not knowledge, knowledge is not understanding, understanding is not wisdom.
Clifford Stoll -
The first principle of my own philosophy is that wisdom is meant for anyone who wishes to reach for it. It is the servant of commoner and king alike and should never be regarded with awe.
L. Ron Hubbard
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Old age is an ordeal, of flesh and mind. Of winding down, of slowing down, of dying cells. It's accepting the loss of physical attractiveness and replacing it with the power and wisdom that can only come with old age.
Colleen McCullough -
There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart.
Charles Dickens -
Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.
Alfred Lord Tennyson -
The most beautiful ape is ugly when compared to a human. The wisest human will seem like an ape when compared to a god with respect to wisdom, beauty, and everything else.
Heraclitus -
I am not sure how many "sins" I would recognize in the world. Some would surely be defused by changed circumstances. But I can imagine none that is more irredeemably sinful than the betrayal, the exploitation, of the young by those who should care for them.
Elizabeth Janeway -
What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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The gap between those who worship different gods is not so wide as the gap between those who worship and those who don't.
C. S. Lewis -
To be fond of learning is near to wisdom.
Confucius -
There is no wisdom save in truth.
Martin Luther -
Scoutmasters deal with the individual boy rather than with the mass.
Baden Powell -
It's ironic that we've built the beauty world around 20-year-olds, when they have no f - kin' concept about wisdom, what life is about, having a few relationships below their belt and feeling hardships, to grow into their skin and feel confident within themselves and to feel the value of who they are, not because of a man or because of something like that. And I think that's such a beautiful thing.
Charlize Theron -
Shelley, who in Prometheus Unbound had observed that the wise lack love and those who have love lack wisdom, went to his end in The Triumph of Life asking why good and the means of good were irreconcilable.
Harold Bloom
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You have to know when to stop - that's wisdom.
Hubert de Givenchy -
Ninety-nine percent of humanity does not know that we have the option to "make it" economically on this planet and in the Universe. We do.
R. Buckminster Fuller -
To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.
Plutarch -
Get used to a rough life, for luxury does not last forever.
Umar