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I prefer the folly of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.
Anatole France

Irony is the gaiety of reflection and the joy of wisdom.
Anatole France

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

The best way to obtain truth and wisdom is not to ask from books, but to go to God in prayer, and obtain divine teaching.
Joseph Smith, Jr.

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

Wisdom is the quality that keeps you from getting into situations where you need it.
Doug Larson

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

Whether the aim is in heaven or on earth, wisdom or wealth, the essential condition of its pursuit and attainment is always security and order.
Johan Huizinga

They would need to be already wise, in order to love wisdom.
Friedrich Schiller

Full of wisdom are the ordinations of fate.
Friedrich Schiller


Those who improve with age embrace the power of personal growth and personal achievement and begin to replace youth with wisdom, innocence with understanding, and lack of purpose with self-actualization.
Bo Bennett

The truest greatness lies in being kind, the truest wisdom in a happy mind.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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

God the Father, the supreme Architect, had already built this cosmic home we behold, the most sacred temple of His godhead, by the laws of His mysterious wisdom.
Giovanni Pico della Mirandola

But in its final creation it was not the part of the Father's power to fail as though exhausted. It was not the part of His wisdom to waver in a needful matter through poverty of counsel.
Giovanni Pico della Mirandola

The philosophies of one age have become the absurdities of the next, and the foolishness of yesterday has become the wisdom of tomorrow.
William Osler

Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men; but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass.
Joseph Addison

There is this difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man, really is so; but he that thinks himself the wisest, is generally the greatest fool.
Charles Caleb Colton

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

Doubt is the vestibule through which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom.
Charles Caleb Colton

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