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A great memory is never made synonymous with wisdom, any more than a dictionary would be called a treatise.
John Henry Newman
The more tranquil a man becomes, the greater is his success, his influence, his power for good. Calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom.
James Allen
Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious.
Zhuangzi
All free governments are managed by the combined wisdom and folly of the people.
James A. Garfield
Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another.
Juvenal
That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in another.
Adlai E. Stevenson
To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.
Marilyn vos Savant
In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom and unwisdom; we have to say, Like People like Government.
Thomas Carlyle
I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
Thomas Carlyle
There is no knowledge, no light, no wisdom that you are in possession of, but what you have received it from some source.
Brigham Young
Back of every mistaken venture and defeat is the laughter of wisdom, if you listen.
Carl Sandburg
Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.
Graham Greene
Economists often like startling theorems, results which seem to run counter to conventional wisdom.
Joseph Stiglitz
Whenever you argue with another wiser than yourself in order that others may admire your wisdom, they will discover your ignorance.
Saadi
The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living, which are to be desired when dying.
Norman Douglas
What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes?
Norman Douglas
The pine stays green in winter... wisdom in hardship.
Norman Douglas
Teach you children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.
Walter Scott
Be there a will, and wisdom finds a way.
George Crabbe
People always blame the girl; she should have said no. A monosyllable, but conventional wisdom has always been that boys can't manage it.
Anna Quindlen
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