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Good quotes about Wisdom: Some of the best great quotes about Wisdom

Good quotes about Wisdom: Some of the best great quotes about Wisdom

To be satisfied with a little, is the greatest wisdom; and he that increaseth his riches, increaseth his cares; but a contented mind is a hidden treasure, and trouble findeth it not. - Akhenaton

Patience is the companion of wisdom. - Saint Augustine

A prudent question is one-half of wisdom. - Francis Bacon

Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe. - Josh Billings

A man begins cutting his wisdom teeth the first time he bites off more than he can chew. - Herb Caen

In seeking wisdom thou art wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it - thou art a fool. - Lord Chesterfield

Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom. - Samuel Taylor Coleridge

By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest. - Confucius

There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart. - Charles Dickens

The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations. - Benjamin Disraeli

The doors of wisdom are never shut. - Benjamin Franklin

Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents. - Kahlil Gibran

The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions. - Oliver Wendell Holmes

Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit. - Elbert Hubbard

Wisdom is a sacred communion. - Victor Hugo

He dares to be a fool, and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom. - James Gibbons Huneker

It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own. - William R. Inge

The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook. - William James

Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it. - David Starr Jordan

Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another. - Juvenal

Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you’d have preferred to talk. - Doug Larson

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