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~ The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common. ~

Ralph Waldo Emerson

~ Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is enlightenment. ~

Lao Tzu

~ We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it. ~

La Rochefoucauld, FranÁois, duc de

~ He was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the rich. ~

Evelyn Waugh

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

George Iles

~ Our experience is composed rathery of illusions that of wisdom acquired. ~

Joseph Roux

~ Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom. ~

Thomas Jefferson

~ Year's end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us. ~

Hal Borland

~ With courage you will dare to take risks, have the strength to be compassionate, and the wisdom to be humble. Courage is the foundation of integrity. ~

Keshavan Nair

~ But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint. ~

Edmund Burke

~ But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint. ~

Edmund Burke

~ Silence does not always mark wisdom. ~

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

~ Wisdom alone is true ambition's aim, wisdom is the source of virtue and of fame; obtained with labour, for mankind employed, and then, when most you share it, best enjoyed. ~

Alfred North Whitehead

~ Life is given for wisdom, and yet we are not wise; for goodness, and we are not good; for overcoming evil, and evil remains; for patience and sympathy and love, and yet we are fretful and hard and weak and selfish. We are keyed not to attainment, but to the struggle toward it. ~

T. T. Munger

~ The most excellent and divine counsel, the best and most profitable advertisement of all others, but the least practised, is to study and learn how to know ourselves. This is the foundation of wisdom and the highway to whatever is good. . . . God, Nature, the wise, the world, preach man, exhort him both by word and deed to the study of himself. ~

Pierre Charron

~ Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. ~

William Saroyan

~ Culture, far from giving us freedom, only develops, as it advances, new necessities; the fetters of the physical close more tightly around us, so that the fear of loss quenches even the ardent impulse toward improvement, and the maxims of passive obedience are held to be the highest wisdom of life. ~

Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller

~ Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus. ~

Wallace Stegner

~ Full of wisdom are the ordinations of fate. ~

Johann Friedrich Von Schiller

~ Full of wisdom are the ordinations of fate. ~

Johann Friedrich Von Schiller

~ Humility is the only true wisdom by which we prepare our minds for all the possible changes of life. ~

George Arliss

~ Humility is the only true wisdom by which we prepare our minds for all the possible changes of life. ~

George Arliss

~ Humility is the only true wisdom by which we prepare our minds for all the possible changes of life. ~

George Arliss

~ 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

~ A country is considered the more civilized the more wisdom and efficiency of its laws hinder a weak man from becoming too weak or a powerful one too powerful. ~

Levi Levi Primo

~ Without going out-of-doors, one can know all he needs to know. Without even looking out of his window, one can grasp the nature of everything. Without going beyond his own nature, one can achieve ultimate wisdom. Therefore, the intelligent man knows all he needs to know without going away, And sees all he needs to see without looking elsewhere, And does all he needs to do wihout undue exertion ~

Lao-Tzu

~ To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts; but so to love wisdom as to live according to its dictates ~

Henry Thoreau

~ Rightly defined philosophy is simply the love of wisdom. ~

Marcus Tulius Cicero

~ That we will, at all times hereafter, consider ourselves as a free and independent state, capable of regulating our internal police, in all and every respect whatsoever -- and that the people on said Grants have the sole and exclusive and inherent right of ruling and governing themselves in such manner and form as in their own wisdom they shall think proper. ~

Unknown

~ From meditation springs wisdom. From lack of meditation, loss of wisdom. Recognising these alternative roads of progress and decline, one should so direct oneself so that one's wisdom will increase ~

Lord Buddha

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