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~ We show wisdom by a decent conformity to social etiquette; it is excess of neatness or display that creates dandyism in men, and coquetry in women. ~

Robert Adam

~ Illusion and wisdom combined are the charm of life and art. ~

Joseph Joubert

~ Incredulity is the wisdom of the fool ~

Josh Billings

~ Wisdom and foolishness are practically the same. Both are indifferent to the opinions of the world ~

Joseph Campbell

~ A spoon does not know the taste of soup, nor a learned fool the taste of wisdom. ~

Welsh Proverb

~ A spoon does not know the taste of soup, nor a learned fool the taste of wisdom. ~

Welsh Proverb

~ Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack. We give it orders which make no sense. ~

Henry Miller

~ Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack. We give it orders which make no sense. ~

Henry Miller

~ Science investigates religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power religion gives man wisdom which is control. ~

Martin Luther King Jr

~ Solitude is the best nurse of wisdom. ~

Laurence Sterne

~ Irony is the gaiety of reflection and the joy of wisdom. ~

Anatole France

~ Moderation is the inseparable companion of wisdom, but with it genius has not even a nodding acquaintance. ~

Charles Caleb Colton

~ We all admire the wisdom of people who come to us for advice. ~

Arthur Helps

~ The hunger for facile wisdom is the root of all false philosophy. ~

George Santayana

~ Doubt the conventional wisdom unless you can verify it with reason and experiment. ~

Steve Albini

~ Old myths, old gods, old heroes have never died. They are only sleeping at the bottom of our mind, waiting for our call. We have need for them. They represent the wisdom of our race. ~

Stanley Kunitz

~ Logic is the beginning of wisdom, not the end. ~

Leonard Nimoy

~ Anxiety about the future never profits; we feel no evil until it comes, and when we feel it, no counsel helps; wisdom is either too early or too late. ~

Arthur Somers Roche

~ The enemy of the conventional wisdom is not ideas but the march of events. ~

Galbraith

~ "The greatest wonder is that we can see these trees and not wonder more." "The flowers, the animals, the mountains, reflected the wisdom of his best hour, as much as they had delighted the simplicity of his childhood." ~

Ralph Waldo Emerson

~ Fill up, fill up, for wisdom cools When ever we let the wine rest. Here is death to Prohibitions fools, And every kind of vine-pest! ~

Jamrach Holobom

~ It is not women's fault that diets do not work. It is not perversity of lack of willpower. God did this - in Her great wisdom. ~

Dr. Wayne Callaway

~ It is not wisdom but Authority that makes a law ~

Thomas Hobbes

~ Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences. ~

Norman Cousins

~ A proverb is the wisdom of many and the wit of one. ~

Lord John Russell

~ Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain. ~

Kahlil Gibran,

~ Of all things wisdom is the most terrified with epidemical fanaticism, because, of all enemies, it is that against which she is the least able to furnish any kind of resource. ~

Edmund Burke

~ Conventional wisdom notwithstanding, there is no reason either in football or in poetry why the two should not meet in a man's life if he has the weight and cares about the words. ~

Archibald MacLeish

~ It is a right, yes a duty, to search in cautious manner for the numbers, sizes, and weights, the norms for everything [God] has created. For He himself has let man take part in the knowledge of these things ... For these secrets are not of the kind whose research should be forbidden; rather they are set before our eyes like a mirror so that by examining them we observe to some extent the goodness and wisdom of the Creator. ~

Johannes Kepler

~ Wisdom becomes nonsense in the mouth of a fanatic ~

Schuwdrmer, Otto

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